NYC BREHS: Mayor Mamdani is here.
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Posted this on election day..Now....
Will Mamdani/Hochul be like a Cuomo/deblasio relationship where they can't stand each other?
Kathy already said she's not taxing the rich
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
The illegals get to be the rich’s housekeeping staff.Where these jobs coming from bytch?
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Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Seriously Mamdani is going to say 9.5% property tax and stabilized housing Rent Freeze and fukk them resident real estate owners up something crazy. I’m assuming that is the next step…. In which case the real estate lobby is going to be on hochul’s head to give him that 2% wealth tax.
Cause based on Mamdani’s plan it will be two years of them paying at least 9.5% with no increases in rent. Compared to all the other millionaires pay a 2% increase.
Cause based on Mamdani’s plan it will be two years of them paying at least 9.5% with no increases in rent. Compared to all the other millionaires pay a 2% increase.
Shhh, listen. Did Mamdani say perCENT? Or percentage POINT?
The difference is important for understanding his tax plan – and for selling it.
www.cityandstateny.com
Shhh, listen. Did Mamdani say perCENT? Or percentage POINT?
The difference is important for understanding his tax plan – and for selling it.
Mamdani is a wizard with the percent trickery. Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
By Annie McDonough
Senior City Hall Reporter
February 18, 2026
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani laid out two possible paths to closing a $5.4 billion budget gap next year, both of which involve tax hikes.
The first – his preferred method – would include a personal income tax rate hike of two percentage points on people making over $1 million annually, as well as a corporate tax hike. The second – which he described as a “last resort” option – would include a 9.5% increase in the overall property tax rate in New York City.
Those figures shouldn’t be understood in the same way. Though Mamdani has at times described his income tax proposal as a 2% increase – “I’m asking for a 2% raise in personal income taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers,” he said on Tin Cup Day – it would in fact be an increase of two percentage points, or a roughly 52% increase in what those New Yorkers are paying in city income tax. Per city budget officials, the city income tax rate would rise from about 3.88% to 5.88% under Mamdani’s millionaire tax proposal. (Mamdani has at other times described it more clearly. During the campaign, he called for a new, flat 2% tax on people making $1 million or more annually, which would equate to paying $20,000 more in taxes for those who make exactly $1 million.)
Property tax rates vary, but Mamdani has proposed raising the city’s average rate from 12.28% to 13.45%, according to his financial plan.
The confusion is perhaps unintentional, but it does have the effect of minimizing the tax on the rich Mamdani is proposing – “Come on! It’s just 2%! No big deal!” – while the higher 9.5% figure inflates the threat of higher property taxes – “Watch out Kathy Hochul, people are going to be pissed about this!” Both serve Mamdani’s political narrative.
A spokesperson for City Hall did not comment when asked if the alternative tax hike pitches have been misleading. But the mayor’s office has characterized an additional 2-point tax for a class already facing a combined city, state and federal tax rate of 45% as relatively small.
Ana Champeny, vice president for research at the fiscal watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission, said that she didn’t see a problem in how Mamdani has presented the tax proposals, noting that the nuances of how the city’s property tax is assessed could make it simpler to describe it as a 9.5% increase.
Shhh, listen. Did Mamdani say perCENT? Or percentage POINT?
The difference is important for understanding his tax plan – and for selling it.
Shhh, listen. Did Mamdani say perCENT? Or percentage POINT?
The difference is important for understanding his tax plan – and for selling it.
Mamdani is a wizard with the percent trickery. Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
By Annie McDonough
Senior City Hall Reporter
February 18, 2026
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani laid out two possible paths to closing a $5.4 billion budget gap next year, both of which involve tax hikes.
The first – his preferred method – would include a personal income tax rate hike of two percentage points on people making over $1 million annually, as well as a corporate tax hike. The second – which he described as a “last resort” option – would include a 9.5% increase in the overall property tax rate in New York City.
Those figures shouldn’t be understood in the same way. Though Mamdani has at times described his income tax proposal as a 2% increase – “I’m asking for a 2% raise in personal income taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers,” he said on Tin Cup Day – it would in fact be an increase of two percentage points, or a roughly 52% increase in what those New Yorkers are paying in city income tax. Per city budget officials, the city income tax rate would rise from about 3.88% to 5.88% under Mamdani’s millionaire tax proposal. (Mamdani has at other times described it more clearly. During the campaign, he called for a new, flat 2% tax on people making $1 million or more annually, which would equate to paying $20,000 more in taxes for those who make exactly $1 million.)
Property tax rates vary, but Mamdani has proposed raising the city’s average rate from 12.28% to 13.45%, according to his financial plan.
The confusion is perhaps unintentional, but it does have the effect of minimizing the tax on the rich Mamdani is proposing – “Come on! It’s just 2%! No big deal!” – while the higher 9.5% figure inflates the threat of higher property taxes – “Watch out Kathy Hochul, people are going to be pissed about this!” Both serve Mamdani’s political narrative.
A spokesperson for City Hall did not comment when asked if the alternative tax hike pitches have been misleading. But the mayor’s office has characterized an additional 2-point tax for a class already facing a combined city, state and federal tax rate of 45% as relatively small.
Ana Champeny, vice president for research at the fiscal watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission, said that she didn’t see a problem in how Mamdani has presented the tax proposals, noting that the nuances of how the city’s property tax is assessed could make it simpler to describe it as a 9.5% increase.
This is what those gentrifiers and transplants voted for.
and a lot of them do not have money like that and are BARELY getting by. Theres super rich wealthy people though in the mix, sprinkled here and there but a lot of those constituents are just meeting the line between broke and getting by. Basically this is the people who got tricked into college debt that basically are living beyond their means. Nobody is talking about how theres a lot of people with debt to their names. Im just curious whats gonna become of that demographic. Theyre the ones that are all up in Bushwick, Williamsburg, and all those gentrified neighborhoods.My concern is that where these people may move to especially with the idiotic level of money they are willing to spend to be in some so called "cool" neighborhood. I feel like these people are a Trojan horse for shyt to be unaffordable EVERYWHERE and these guys are willing to attempt to pay for it on some dumb consumer shyt. I do not see whats so cool about the gentrified neighborhoods which are overpriced like a mug. Like whats so hot about Bushwick and williamsburg where all these young people want to live there? shyt is just weird to me and feels fake.
These guys got played hard and theyre ruining shyt for themselves and everybody too.
its like when I see these folks in the Bushwick and williamsburg reddit crying about such store closing in less than a year and im thinking like.."uhhhh... you do understand that the cost of life where you live is extremely high, right? Same shyt with them looking for roommates and breaking rent leases. How do you manage to afford or why do you want to live in THIS neighborhood? Whats so cool about this shyt thats worth spending all these thousands for? Living on top of everybody and having no space? Like whats the excitement in that worth 2,000 dollars for a room? And now the rent will go up because of that. Im sorry but shyt doesnt make sense to me at all. Even the greed of these dikkheads that want all this money. How much money do you need?This is the danger of what happens when people are lying to themselves and arent keeping it real. Got them thinking theyre getting free shyt from lying ass millionaires cosplaying that theyre middle class/working class people serving the technocrats. They dont have it and dont want to admit it. Thats why they voted thinking Mamdani was help lessen their living expenses with free buses and food banks
but theyll look down at all the low income and working class people as if that aint them. Socialism is always a talking point for the gentrifiers because theyre broke but want to have "nice things" at the expense of the government without paying for it. 
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They can probably file a class action suit and not pay anything during the court proceedings.
They can offset the increase with reduced expenses in upkeep plus you can claim property taxes on their federal tax return.
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@dmlevitt
/search?q=#AlexArmlovich. 3d member /search?q=#RentGuidelinesBoard to resign this month, giving /search?q=#MayorMamdani path to imposing /search?q=#rentfreeze. Regs important but
'short-term patch' /search?q=#rentstabilized /search?q=#NYC /search?q=#realestate /search?q=#CRE /search?q=#multifamily /search?q=#CoefficientGiving Mamdani May Actually Get a Rent Freeze This Year After All via @THECITYNY
@dmlevitt
/search?q=#AlexArmlovich. 3d member /search?q=#RentGuidelinesBoard to resign this month, giving /search?q=#MayorMamdani path to imposing /search?q=#rentfreeze. Regs important but
'short-term patch' /search?q=#rentstabilized /search?q=#NYC /search?q=#realestate /search?q=#CRE /search?q=#multifamily /search?q=#CoefficientGiving Mamdani May Actually Get a Rent Freeze This Year After All via @THECITYNY
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@caillouborden12
Zohran today announced six new members to the rent guideline board now he has the majority. Based on public information I can confidently say that they all will vote to freeze the rent for stabilized apartments in NYC
He has secured childcare commitment from the governor
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@caillouborden12
now this . It’s only month two and he’s gonna have another win
@caillouborden12
Zohran today announced six new members to the rent guideline board now he has the majority. Based on public information I can confidently say that they all will vote to freeze the rent for stabilized apartments in NYC
He has secured childcare commitment from the governor
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@caillouborden12
now this . It’s only month two and he’s gonna have another win
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@nncattan
Mamdani stacks NYC board to carry out promised rent freeze
He's announced SIX new appointments out of nine:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...yc-board-to-push-through-promised-rent-freeze
@nncattan
Mamdani stacks NYC board to carry out promised rent freeze
He's announced SIX new appointments out of nine:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...yc-board-to-push-through-promised-rent-freeze
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@UAWRegion9A
Today, @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani announced he is naming @UAW Region 9A Director @mancillabrando to New York City's Rent Guidelines Board as a public member.
Read more → UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla Named to New York City Rent Guidelines Board
@UAWRegion9A
Today, @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani announced he is naming @UAW Region 9A Director @mancillabrando to New York City's Rent Guidelines Board as a public member.
Read more → UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla Named to New York City Rent Guidelines Board
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@1010WINS
Mamdani stacks NYC board to carry out promised rent freeze http://spr.ly/6016hdWSG
Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg, Jason Mendez/Getty Images
@1010WINS
Mamdani stacks NYC board to carry out promised rent freeze http://spr.ly/6016hdWSG Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg, Jason Mendez/Getty Images
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@trdny
“Freeze the rent.” Zohran Mamdani now has the votes to try.
The mayor appointed 5 new members to NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board, giving his picks the majority needed to pursue a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments.
Watch as we break down his RGB picks.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2024860858644320257/vid/avc1/720x1280/10qqwBDFQeiE3Z_c.mp4
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@trdny
Should the RGB freeze the rent?
Vote below
and read more from @katiebrenzel here: Next up, rent freeze? Mamdani names five new members to rent board
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@CityDeskNYC
Mamdani’s rent freeze isn’t policy—it’s economic arson. He stacked the Rent Guidelines Board with activist puppets to torch housing markets, just like St. Paul’s collapse after their 2021 rent control disaster. Rent freezes don’t “protect tenants”—they trap them in crumbling units, kill new construction, and drive landlords to bankruptcy.
Adams kept supply flowing with balanced 12% increases over four years. Mamdani? He’s manufacturing a crisis to justify seizing control.
Watch vacancy rates plummet, black mold spread, and working families get priced out. His RGB picks aren’t reformers—they’re demolition crews for NYC’s housing future.
@trdny
“Freeze the rent.” Zohran Mamdani now has the votes to try.
The mayor appointed 5 new members to NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board, giving his picks the majority needed to pursue a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments.
Watch as we break down his RGB picks.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2024860858644320257/vid/avc1/720x1280/10qqwBDFQeiE3Z_c.mp4
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@trdny
Should the RGB freeze the rent?
Vote below
and read more from @katiebrenzel here: Next up, rent freeze? Mamdani names five new members to rent board3/3
@CityDeskNYC
Mamdani’s rent freeze isn’t policy—it’s economic arson. He stacked the Rent Guidelines Board with activist puppets to torch housing markets, just like St. Paul’s collapse after their 2021 rent control disaster. Rent freezes don’t “protect tenants”—they trap them in crumbling units, kill new construction, and drive landlords to bankruptcy.
Adams kept supply flowing with balanced 12% increases over four years. Mamdani? He’s manufacturing a crisis to justify seizing control.
Watch vacancy rates plummet, black mold spread, and working families get priced out. His RGB picks aren’t reformers—they’re demolition crews for NYC’s housing future.
Lina Khan going through centuries of laws on the books in order to get the 1% percent in line. I think they'll have the bigger stick to achieve their agenda.
Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts
Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”
gothamist.com
@the artist known az tagging you
the artist known az
Hail the victors
I don't live in NYC, you got a problem with it call his office. Or keep complaining. I really don't care. You posted a lot of bullshyt the past few days and I ignored it. I suggest you do the sameTaking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts
Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”
@the artist known az tagging you
Won’t someone please think of these poor millionaires!!
Also Pazzy is a piece of shyt.
As usual.
Im a piece of shyt because I dont dikkride a politician like you do and actual use my brain? How about owning up to being a dumbass that doesnt know shyt to realize that this guy aint shyt? Im so tired of stupid people with huge egos due to mismanaging their insecurities thinking theyre smarter than everybody when they are flat out stupid as shyt dragging everybody down with them, case in point here.
You came in here arguing with me ready to support that lying a$$hole when I said he was full of shyt. Truth is you came at me in here out of spite just like what youve been doing on the low for years.
and now that my point is proven, you cant do or say shyt without looking wrong or like a hater as youve always been. the universe always exposes you fake motherfukkers.