Zohran Mamdani’s perma-smile belongs not to the friendly, well-intentioned neighborhood socialist he’s advertised himself as, but a toothy, vindictive predator.
The mayor pushed through his pied-à-terre tax — a surcharge attached to second homes valued at over $1 million by the city — this spring.
And he’s been licking his chops ever since.
“If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you’ve got mail,” he crooned last week before promising the initiative would yield “the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world.”
It was a dubious, misleading prediction about a destructive policy that will be shouldered by people of much more modest means than Mamdani would ever admit.
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