🚨Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax unpaused after surprise ruling
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s stumbling pied-à-terre tax rollout is back in effect after a surprise appeals court ruling Thursday, but the fight isn’t over.
The appellate court temporarily lifted a restraining order issued Monday by a lower court, allowing City Hall to continue the rollout until the full appeals panel considers the case.
Associate Justice Philip Hom of the Brooklyn Appellate Division signed the order.
In opposition papers filed Thursday, former first deputy mayor Randy Mastro, representing three city homeowners suing over the rollout, called the administration’s attempt to keep implementing the tax “an astonishing display of chutzpah.”
The city, he said, is “compounding their illegal conduct” by taking extraordinary steps to avoid a three-week pause in its “harassment campaign” against homeowners, despite the surcharge not needing to be invoiced until Nov. 15, 2026, and collected until January.
