{"id":495261,"date":"2026-01-06T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:29:11","slug":"junk-fees-hard-to-stop-subscriptions-for-working-people-face-mamdani-crackdown-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495261\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk fees, hard-to-stop subscriptions for ‘working people’ face Mamdani crackdown in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s trashing junk fees.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a pair of executive orders Monday cracking down on junk fees and tricky subscriptions that trap unwitting New Yorkers into seemingly never-ending \u2014 and ultimately costly \u2014 tiny debts.<\/p>\n

Gyms are notorious for shadily billing customers with fees or underhanded subscriptions, Mamdani said at an outdoor gym along the Long Island City waterfront.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a crackdown on junk fees and subscription traps. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is by no means limited solely to the gym industry \u2014 we reckon with it when we try to buy concert tickets, when we book a flight, when we settle our credit card bill, or even when we pay rent,\u201d he said, noting $5 and $10 fees add up quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese fees are not only making it harder for our neighbors to afford life in this city, they are also a sign of disdain and disrespect that corporations and bad landlords hold for working people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first executive order creates a junk fee task force that will target businesses leveling hidden charges against customers.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, under the second order, will work to fight subscription traps, officials said.<\/p>\n

The crackdown dovetails with state Attorney General Letitia James leveling a $600,000 fine against the luxury gym Equinox<\/a> for making it too strenuous for customers to cancel memberships.<\/p>\n

Mamdani signed two executive orders. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n

James attended Mamdani\u2019s news conference, along with incoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Samuel Levine, the city\u2019s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen these hidden costs referred\u00a0to as service fees, as add on fees, as profitable fees,\u201d James said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the bottom line is that they were all hidden fees, and it was difficult for individuals to cancel these fees, but not anymore\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani had tapped former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to scour city laws <\/a>for ways to protect consumers. He tied the junk fees crackdown to his affordability agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hard enough to live in New York City without having to worry all the time about whether you\u2019re being ripped off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s trashing junk fees. Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a pair of executive orders Monday cracking down on junk…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,131479,29096,31241,24980,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,94142,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-495261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-equinox","10":"tag-fees","11":"tag-gyms","12":"tag-letitia-james","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-subscriptions","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845330787422313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}