{"id":17676,"date":"2025-10-26T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17676\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:32:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-tells-new-york-business-leaders-hes-ready-to-listen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17676\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Tells New York Business Leaders He\u2019s Ready to Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One afternoon in late September, passersby gawked as Zohran Mamdani stepped out of a black SUV in Midtown Manhattan and strode to a small lectern his team had set up on the sidewalk. A gaggle of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen was waiting, their sight lines clear, on the stretch just south of Central Park known as Billionaires\u2019 Row, a line of ultraluxury apartment buildings so tall they cast shadows over the park. Mamdani was standing in front of one with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/220-Central-Park-S-UNIT-62-New-York-NY-10019\/321906085_zpid\/\" title=\"Zillow listing for 220 Central Park S UNIT 62, New York, NY 10019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">$87.5 million listing<\/a> inside: a four-bed, seven-bath excuse to talk about the cost of living in America\u2019s priciest city. \u201cThis is a part of New York City that can boast the cost of an apartment exceeding $200 million,\u201d he said, a world apart from the material concerns of most residents, \u201cwhether they can afford their rent, their child care, their groceries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One afternoon in late September, passersby gawked as Zohran Mamdani stepped out of a black SUV in Midtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,12234,5879,3339,5869,5862,609,75,9,24,12233,11,10,1413,87,122,12235],"class_list":["post-17676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-business","tag-businessweek","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-government","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-departm","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-the-big-take"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}