{"id":221152,"date":"2026-05-05T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:18:20","slug":"vornado-ceo-appeals-to-mamdani-after-mayors-griffin-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221152\/","title":{"rendered":"Vornado CEO appeals to Mamdani after mayor&#8217;s Griffin &#8216;blunder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) &#8212; Vornado Realty Trust Chief Executive Officer Steven Roth said he\u2019s begging Zohran Mamdani to be more welcoming to businesses after a video by the New York City mayor caused Citadel to threaten to pull out of a new tower on Park Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Roth said he still expects Citadel\u2019s Ken Griffin to remain committed to the $6 billion project, which Vornado is partnering on, and hopes to offer investors more clarity on the development this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"04a1e\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"74907638d3ae655d8c2c5212c1a906c8\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201334'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/steven-roth.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"\"\/> Steven Roth.Misha Friedman\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>In a now viral social media post discussing a new tax proposal on pieds-\u00e0-terre, Mamdani accused second-home buyers of storing their wealth in the city while not contributing enough to its finances. In the video, Mamdani referenced Griffin and his record-breaking penthouse at 220 Central Park South specifically, pointing to the limestone-clad supertall skyscraper. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a mistake, which I described as a blunder,\u201d Roth said, while urging the mayor not to embrace the phrase \u201ctax the rich.\u201d He added, \u201cthis is something that should be repaired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More stories like this are available on <a href=\"http:\/\/bloomberg.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">bloomberg.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) &#8212; Vornado Realty Trust Chief Executive Officer Steven Roth said he\u2019s begging Zohran Mamdani to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[27337,98,100,99,9,24,63,82],"class_list":["post-221152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bloomberg","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221152","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=221152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}