{"id":250787,"date":"2026-06-01T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:11:17","slug":"why-mamdanis-new-york-has-to-fight-to-retain-its-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250787\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mamdani&#8217;s New York has to fight to retain its crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">With Singapore, London and Dubai doing more to attract talent, the world\u2019s premier financial hub is finding out its title is contestable<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">NEW York is still the world\u2019s premier financial centre. It is also, for the first time in a long while, a centre that has to act as if the title is contestable \u2013 because it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The most recent Global Financial Centres Index, published in March, kept New York in first place. But just a single rating point separates it from London. Hong Kong sits one behind London. Singapore is one behind Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Four cities, separated by what amounts to a rounding error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Singapore, London and Dubai doing more to attract talent, the world\u2019s premier financial hub is finding out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21871,4043,9,11,10,49,51,50,15361,10116,82],"class_list":["post-250787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dubai","tag-london","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-singapore","tag-wealth-tax","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250787","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=250787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}