{"id":236253,"date":"2026-05-19T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:41:10","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-mamdani-meets-jpmorgans-dimon-at-new-headquarters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236253\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City mayor Mamdani meets JPMorgan&#8217;s Dimon at new headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Zohran Mamdani met JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/topic\/jamie-dimon\/\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Jamie Dimon;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jamie Dimon&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Dimon<\/a> at the bank&#8217;s \u200cnew headquarters on Monday, weeks after the \u200cNew York City mayor drew backlash for his plans to tax \u200bthe rich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamdani, who ran for mayor of America&#8217;s financial capital last year as a democratic socialist, met Dimon for the first time at 270 Park Avenue, \u200chis office said \u2060in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Their talks covered issues such as cutting government waste and reducing \u2060red tape, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The meeting was &#8220;constructive and the tone was friendly,&#8221; a spokesperson for JPMorgan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamdani has \u200bdrawn criticism \u200bfrom billionaires such as \u200bCitadel founder Ken Griffin \u200cfor backing proposals seeking higher taxes on the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His election plank aimed to make the city more affordable for poorer residents, pledging to freeze rents and tackle soaring costs of essentials such as groceries \u200cand childcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dimon had earlier signaled \u200bthe largest U.S. bank&#8217;s willingness \u200bto help Mamdani. &#8220;Cities \u200bhave issues and problems and it takes \u200call hands on deck \u200bto fix those \u200bproblems,&#8221; he told Reuters in an interview last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of New York City&#8217;s largest private \u200bemployers, JPMorgan contributes $42 \u200cbillion to its economy annually, the bank \u200bsaid last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Zohran Mamdani met JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon at the bank&#8217;s \u200cnew headquarters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9531,11317,2375,1500,18649,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-236253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-270-park-avenue","tag-democratic-socialist","tag-jamie-dimon","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-ken-griffin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236253","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=236253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}