{"id":200892,"date":"2026-04-17T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:47:14","slug":"cnbc-anchor-rips-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-for-filming-video-outside-billionaire-ken-griffins-penthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200892\/","title":{"rendered":"CNBC anchor rips NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for filming video outside billionaire Ken Griffin’s penthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A CNBC anchor blasted far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he filmed a video touting a proposed pied-\u00e0-terre tax<\/a> outside hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin\u2019s Manhattan penthouse.<\/a><\/p>\n

Shooting his segment outside Griffin\u2019s $238 million spread at 220 Central Park South, a smirking Mamdani on Thursday declared, \u201cWhen I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hizzoner pointed to up to the Citadel CEO\u2019s apartment as an example of the kind of luxury property targeted by his new \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre tax,\u201d adding: \u201cLike for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted a new \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre\u201d tax targeting ultra-wealthy property owners who don\u2019t live full-time in New York City \u2014 that he filmed outside of Ken Griffin\u2019s home. X\/Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani<\/p>\n

The video which was posted to Mamdani\u2019s official social media accounts have gone viral, accumulating tens of millions of views online.<\/p>\n

Sara Eisen, a co-anchor on \u201cSquawk on the Street\u201d and \u201cMoney Movers,\u201d warned the move risks backfiring, noting Griffin \u201cemploys thousands of people in NYC\u201d and is \u201cinvesting billions more and creating thousands more jobs\u201d \u2014 adding that \u201cmaking him feel unwelcome and demonizing him seems risky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKen Griffin employs thousands of people in NYC and is planning to build the tallest office tower on Park Ave., investing billions more and creating thousands more jobs,\u201d Eisen wrote on X on Thursday, adding that \u201c[f]or that reason, he\u2019s also here in NYC a lot, @NYCMayor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMeantime Miami is welcoming him and his firm, with the massive jobs, investment and tax revenue he\u2019s bringing,\u201d Eisen wrote.<\/p>\n

The Post has sought comment from Mamdani and Griffin. <\/p>\n

Eisen said Griffin relocated the headquarters of his hedge fund<\/a> from Chicago to Miami \u201cbecause of bad policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNBC anchor Sara Eisen blasted Zohran Mamdani\u2019s push to tax luxury second homes, warning the move could drive away major investors. Derek French \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The proposed pied-a-terre tax, unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul, would impose an annual levy on luxury homes worth more than $5 million owned by non-full-time residents, targeting ultra-wealthy property owners whose units often sit empty.<\/p>\n

When reached by The Post, Eisen expanded on her X post, warning that while \u201cthere\u2019s no place like NYC\u201d where businesses \u201chave strong and growing footholds here,\u201d Mamdani and other left-leaning politicos \u201cshouldn\u2019t take that for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe general attitude I hear from business leaders is \u2018We can probably get through four years of anti-business policies, but the danger is the longer-term trend\u2019,\u201d Eisen, the veteran business journalist, told The Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, a major New York real estate owner and Citadel founder, has warned about the risks of high taxes and crime in major cities. Vernon Yuen\/Nexpher via ZUMA Press Wire \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cBad policies have consequences, as we\u2019ve seen a migration of business out of California and into Florida, for instance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eisen added that while New York \u201cwill always be special\u2026it may not be as vibrant of a place for new offices and expansion in the future if we go down this path of demonizing them and disincentivizing them to be here.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Griffin has deep ties to New York\u2019s high-end real estate and business world, headlined by his record-setting $238 million penthouse<\/a> at 220 Central Park South.<\/p>\n

At the time of the 2019 purchase, it was the largest sum ever paid<\/a> for a residence in the United States. There have been several homes that have listed for higher prices, but there are no verified closings as of Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Griffin has since expanded his footprint with tens of millions more in purchases at the elite 740 Park Avenue.<\/p>\n

He is also backing the redevelopment of 350 Park Avenue, a roughly 62-story, nearly 2 million-square-foot supertall expected to cost about $4.5 billion, with Citadel and Citadel Securities set to anchor the tower as his future Manhattan headquarters.<\/p>\n

Griffin has long tied his business decisions to concerns about crime and the broader climate in major Northern cities, warning in 2021 that Chicago was \u201cbecoming ever more difficult to have this as our global headquarters, a city which has so much violence\u201d and likening conditions to \u201clike Afghanistan on a good day and that\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Griffin\u2019s record-setting $238 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South \u2014 one of the most expensive homes ever sold in the US \u2014 has become a flashpoint in the debate over taxing luxury properties. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He later went further, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve lived in a failed city-state\u201d and recounting how \u201cI had 25 bullet holes in the front of my building<\/a> where I lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those concerns \u2014 along with taxes and regulation \u2014 helped drive Citadel\u2019s move to Miami, which Griffin has cast as a sharper contrast to struggling big cities.<\/p>\n

He has argued that in \u201cNorthern cities awash in red tape, people talk about crime and how bleak the future is,\u201d while in Florida he sees \u201coptimism in the air,\u201d framing the shift as part of a broader migration of capital and talent to lower-tax, business-friendly regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CNBC anchor blasted far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he filmed a video touting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3968,288,54146,426,18649,1208,57,9,24,63,134,136,135,2780,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-200892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-billionaires","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cnbc","11":"tag-kathy-hochul","12":"tag-ken-griffin","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-staten-island","19":"tag-staten-island-headlines","20":"tag-staten-island-news","21":"tag-taxes","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892","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=200892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}