Business Leaders Call Mayor Mamdani 'Irresponsible' Over Ken Griffin Social Media Video

Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces criticism from business leaders and former Mayor Eric Adams over a social media video filmed outside billionaire Ken Griffin's penthouse. The video was part of promoting a pied-à-terre tax targeting ultra-wealthy secondary homes. Griffin called the video 'creepy and weird' and cited it as a reason for potentially moving operations to Florida.

• keptPied-à-terre tax on $5M+ second homes
• brokenCorporate tax hike ($1.75B/year)
• brokenDouble DCWP budget to $135M
• brokenIncrease Human Rights Commission funding to $21M

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