Everyone needs a break sometimes. Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes his siesta next week.<\/p>\n
He won’t be going far, though — just in case.<\/p>\n
Mamdani let the cat out of the bag at an unrelated press conference Wednesday, when he was asked about Monday’s upcoming court challenge to his pied-a-terre tax.<\/p>\n
He won’t be in New York City. <\/p>\n
Mamdani kept it vague, despite a follow-up question, saying only he’s going “upstate.” He declined to give additional location information, as did City Hall.<\/p>\n
City Hall says he’ll leave Sunday and return the following Sunday, Aug. 23, after spending time with his family. A spokesman didn’t specify who would be there. <\/p>\n
The week away will mark a visible absence in New York City. Mamdani has anywhere from one to four public events a weekday, by rough estimate. <\/p>\n
A statement said the mayor will still receive regular updates from senior staff. First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan will lead day-to-day operations until Mamdani gets back. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, a reporter asked him if it was just coincidence that he was going away the same week his pied-a-terre tax faces a legal challenge in court. The mayor gave that one a good laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone needs a break sometimes. Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes his siesta next week. He won’t be going far,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-320867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320867","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=320867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}