Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mass doxxing of city property owners was such a PR disaster that his office boycotted the City Council\u2019s hearing about the pied-\u00e0-terre tax rollout, preposterously claiming that it couldn\u2019t let anyone speak about an issue that\u2019s the subject of an active lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Rubbish! The city faces constant litigation on all sorts of issues \u2014 labor disputes, NYPD policies, charter schools<\/a> \u2014 without preventing the mayor\u2019s office from talking freely.<\/p>\n No: Team Mamdani simply wants to duck accountability<\/a> for the latest in a series of high-profile missteps<\/a>.<\/p>\n So it boycotted a public hearing<\/a> packed with testimony about the thousands of \u201cprove you\u2019re innocent\u201d<\/a> letters sent to New Yorkers who\u2019ve lived in and voted (and paid income taxes!) from the same address for decades, as well as complaints from co-op boards about City Hall\u2019s bid to hold all members responsible for paying the tax on some members\u2019 units.<\/p>\n Not to mention the fury over the completely gratuitous posting of a selected 900,000 names and addresses \u2014 supposedly of property owners who might be liable for the tax, even though the city had already identified a far smaller list of candidates that ruled out 98%-plus of the longer one.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n City Hall didn\u2019t even dare send someone to answer questions like, \u201cHow was that not a class-war enemies list<\/a>?\u201d \u2014 which strongly suggests that was the point.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Certainly, Team Mamdani\u2019s claim that the mass doxxing was just an effort at \u201ctransparency\u201d<\/a> is laughable.<\/p>\n