By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2026-08-19 23:02:13 | Updated at 2026-08-19 23:16:55
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Mamdani's crew boycotted a hearing for their botched pied-à-terre tax rollout.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mass doxxing of city property owners was such a PR disaster that his office boycotted the City Council’s hearing about the pied-à-terre tax rollout, preposterously claiming that it couldn’t let anyone speak about an issue that’s the subject of an active lawsuit.
Rubbish! The city faces constant litigation on all sorts of issues — labor disputes, NYPD policies, charter schools — without preventing the mayor’s office from talking freely.
No: Team Mamdani simply wants to duck accountability for the latest in a series of high-profile missteps.
So it boycotted a public hearing packed with testimony about the thousands of “prove you’re innocent” letters sent to New Yorkers who’ve lived in and voted (and paid income taxes!) from the same address for decades, as well as complaints from co-op boards about City Hall’s bid to hold all members responsible for paying the tax on some members’ units.
Not to mention the fury over the completely gratuitous posting of a selected 900,000 names and addresses — supposedly of property owners who might be liable for the tax, even though the city had already identified a far smaller list of candidates that ruled out 98%-plus of the longer one.
City Hall didn’t even dare send someone to answer questions like, “How was that not a class-war enemies list?” — which strongly suggests that was the point.
Certainly, Team Mamdani’s claim that the mass doxxing was just an effort at “transparency” is laughable.
Note, too, that City Hall’s boycott of this hearing comes even as Mamdani is spending millions in taxpayer funds to organize mobs to protest at other public hearings.
This mayor and his team may call themselves Democratic Socialists, but they plainly have utter contempt for democratic accountability.
