{"id":209319,"date":"2026-04-25T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:23:16","slug":"nycs-zohran-mamdani-tries-defusing-ken-griffin-blowback-to-second-home-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209319\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Zohran Mamdani Tries Defusing Ken Griffin Blowback to Second-Home Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani insisted his push for a new tax on pricey second homes isn\u2019t \u201cmotivated by any one individual,\u201d as reporters pressed him on whether he regretted singling out billionaire Ken Griffin\u2019s $238 million Manhattan penthouse in a viral social-media video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Mamdani\u2019s explanations came at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn, a day after Citadel\u2019s Chief Operating Officer Gerald Beeson raised the possibility of stopping work on a $6 billion, 62-story development at 350 Park Avenue in response to the mayor\u2019s comments about Griffin, the firms\u2019 founder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani insisted his push for a new tax on pricey second homes isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,51300,3339,82936,426,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,87,2780,7990,4692],"class_list":{"0":"post-209319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-budget-deficit","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-gerald-albert-beeson","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-taxes","22":"tag-twitter-inc","23":"tag-wealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209319","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=209319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}