{"id":220990,"date":"2026-05-05T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220990\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:11:10","slug":"nyc-business-bigwig-slams-mamdanis-tax-the-rich-video-outside-ken-griffins-home-as-ugly-unnecessary-video-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220990\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC business bigwig slams Mamdani’s ‘Tax the Rich’ video outside Ken Griffin’s home as ‘ugly, unnecessary video stunt’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big-time NYC real estate developer slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his \u201cugly\u201d political stunt outside Citadel CEO Ken Griffin\u2019s apartment<\/a> touting his pledge to tax the rich, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n

\u201cKen is the one who can galvanize the business community,\u201d Vornado honcho Steve Roth said on the earnings call Tuesday morning, according to a transcript.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be first in line to support him. The ugly, unnecessary video stunt is personal to Ken and sort of personal to me too.\u201d<\/p>\n

A big-time NYC real estate developer slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his \u201cugly\u201d political stunt outside Citadel CEO Ken Griffin\u2019s apartment touting his pledge to tax the rich, The Post has learned. X\/Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani<\/p>\n

\u201cKen is the one who can galvanize the business community,\u201d Vornado honcho Steve Roth said on the earnings call Tuesday morning, according to a transcript. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The fresh-faced mayor picked a fight with the influential billionaire businessman last month when he dropped one of his signature social media reels using Griffin\u2019s 24,000-square-foot pad on Central Park South<\/a> as the centerpiece to tout Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s proposed\u00a0pied-\u00e1-terre tax<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The tax would put an additional levy on pricey second homes for non-New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Griffin, who met with Hochul last week for a private sitdown in Albany, took exception to being the poster boy<\/a> of Mamdani\u2019s tax-the-rich campaign, with business leaders calling foul about dragging the hedge fund manager who has injected millions of dollars into the Big Apple. <\/p>\n

In response, Citadel COO Gerald Beeson called the attack \u201cshameful\u201d and even floated canning the $6 billion renovation of the company\u2019s Park Avenue office. <\/p>\n

Vornado is at the center of the development of that massive new spot building on Park Avenue and also owns most of the property around Penn Station.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI must say that I consider the\u00a0phrase \u2018Tax the rich,\u2019 quote \u2018Tax the rich\u2019\u00a0when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs and even the\u00a0phrase \u2018From\u00a0the river to the sea,’\u201d Roth continued, referring to the hateful slogan that implies the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel.<\/p>\n

Griffin, who met with Hochul last week for a private sitdown in Albany, took exception to being the poster boy of Mamdani\u2019s tax-the-rich campaign. @NYCMayor \/X<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat these polls seem to\u00a0be\u00a0saying is that the rich are evil or the enemy or the targets, or maybe even just suckers,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the rich whom the politicians are targeting started at nothing, are the epitome of the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roth added that the company would \u201cstand behind\u201d whoever the mayor is, but hoped Mamdani would realize as mayor that the \u201chardworking 1% is allies, not enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s tax-the-rich agenda was a key pillar in his campaign to get elected mayor last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big-time NYC real estate developer slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his \u201cugly\u201d political stunt outside Citadel CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18649,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,16147,2780,58,4692,19033,82],"class_list":["post-220990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ken-griffin","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rich","tag-taxes","tag-us-news","tag-wealth","tag-wealthy","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220990","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=220990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}