Mamdani Is Quietly Backing Away From a Threat to Raise Property Taxes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/nyregion/mamdani-property-tax-increase.html
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani threatened last month to raise property taxes on New Yorkers, it was seen as a tactic to pressure Gov. Kathy Hochul into increasing income taxes on the wealthy. Instead, it provoked immediate backlash.
Numerous elected officials — from Mr. Mamdani’s left-leaning allies to centrist Democrats representing Black homeowners — said in no uncertain terms that raising property taxes was a nonstarter…
One of Mr. Mamdani’s former colleagues in the State Legislature told the mayor that if he went through with the property tax proposal, he would be a one-term mayor.
[Of course, that may happen anyway.]
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