A magazine reporter stumped Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his closest advisers with a question about lowering the cost of living in the Big Apple.
Mamdani and his crew didn’t have an answer when a New York Magazine writer asked for a comparable city as the democratic socialist waxed poetic about his lofty “principle” of bringing down the cost of living in the five boroughs.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was stumped by a reporter on how to lower NYC’s cost of living. Paul Martinka for NY Post
A New York Magazine writer asked Mamdani for a comparable city, but none came to mind. James Keivom for NY Post
“I asked him and some of his advisers if there were cities that had pulled this off that New York could emulate, places that had managed to meaningfully lower the cost of living. None sprang to mind,” the article stated.
“Talk to policy experts, and they find the prospect laughable; the only cities where this has happened are ones where the quality of life dropped so dramatically that no one wanted to live there anymore.”
A number of Mamdani’s freebie-filled policies aimed at lowering costs could actually raise costs, critics have said.
Mamdani’s signature rent-freeze policy could make physical conditions worse for rent-stabilized tenants and force landlords to increase costs for tenants in units that aren’t under rent-control restrictions, The Post previously reported.
Incoming CEO Steven Fulop slammed Mamdani’s tax hike plan as ‘absolute suicide’ for NYC. AP
The incoming head of the city’s premier business group previously panned a plan by Mamdani to hike corporate taxes as “absolute suicide” for the Big Apple economy.
“This proposal is absolute suicide for NYC and an absolute dream for NJ,” said Steven Fulop, the former Jersey City Mayor and incoming CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
A rep for Mamdani didn’t respond to a request for comment.