By David Schultz
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall has taken its class warfare act from campaign slogan to searchable database, publishing the names and addresses of New York City property owners who could be hit by the state’s new second home tax.
The city Department of Finance uploaded a list that claims to identify unoccupied, nonprimary residences across the five boroughs valued above $1 million.
It includes the full names and addresses of the owners, effectively putting thousands of wealthy New Yorkers on public display for the sin of owning property in a city that already taxes nearly everything that moves.
The database follows a widely mocked post from Mamdani on X, where the mayor warned affluent residents to “check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs, because you’ve got mail,” referring to notification letters headed their way.
“The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That’s only possible when we all pay our fair share,” Mamdani wrote Thursday.