Barely a month ago, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City triumphantly used the billionaire Ken Griffin\u2019s $238 million apartment as a prop in a social media video hailing a state plan to tax multimillion-dollar second homes.<\/p>\n
But on Monday, as Mr. Mamdani met with two captains of finance, he seemed eager to project a more business-friendly demeanor.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mamdani met first with Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, who had in a recent letter to shareholders warned that New York\u2019s tax policies risked driving business out of New York City.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo city \u2014 or company or country \u2014 has a divine right to success,\u201d Mr. Dimon wrote in April.<\/a><\/p>\n Afterward, Mr. Mamdani met with David M. Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, at Gracie Mansion, the mayor\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n Joe Evangelisti, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, said that Mr. Dimon and the mayor \u201chad a constructive conversation around the importance of government and business working well together to help New Yorkers and to keep the city competitive.\u201d A spokesman for Goldman Sachs had no comment.<\/p>\n In a statement, the mayor\u2019s press secretary, Joe Calvello, described the meeting with Mr. Dimon at the company\u2019s new Park Avenue headquarters as \u201cgenial.\u201d<\/p>\n It was unclear how long either meeting had been in the works.<\/p>\n Mr. Mamdani is New York City\u2019s first mayor to be wholly associated with democratic socialism, and his tax-the-rich campaign platform has long annoyed many in the business community.<\/p>\n Relations between the mayor and big business grew particularly heated on Tax Day, when Mr. Mamdani pointed stood outside Mr. Griffin\u2019s lavish Midtown Manhattan home and portrayed it as Exhibit A in his case for taxing pricey second homes. The video has since been viewed more than 52 million times<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n Mr. Griffin responded with a publicity tour of his own, describing the mayor\u2019s video as \u201ccreepy and weird,\u201d and suggesting that it had put his life in danger.<\/p>\n The mayor \u201cseems to have forgotten that the C.E.O. of another American company was assassinated just blocks from where I live in New York,\u201d he said, referring to the 2024 murder of Brian Thompson<\/a>, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive.<\/p>\n