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Posted on 08/09/2025 5:38:44 PM PDT by Libloather
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a silver-spoon socialist shamelessly living in a dirt cheap rent-stabilized apartment – and it’s time to move out, fed up neighbors and critics told The Post.
Mamdani, 33, who rakes in $142,000 a year as a state assemblyman and whose wealthy family includes his filmmaker mom and professor dad, has been living in a $2,300-a-month, one-bedroom pad in Astoria — galling facts that reached critical mass Saturday.
“It’s unfortunate that he supports policies that are great for the fortunate few [who] get these apartments,” said Jerry DeFazio, 33, a mechanical engineer who lived in the same building as Mamdani.
“It makes it harder for everyone to afford … since landlords raise the other rents, like mine, to pay for his.”
Mayor Eric Adams accused Mamdani of “exploiting a system designed to serve the most vulnerable.”
“This is not public service; this is self-service,” he told The Post.
“It is outrageous that … a man who presents himself as a champion of the poor would occupy an apartment intended for public housing while thousands of New Yorkers sleep in shelters or on the streets. I was born in Brownsville and understand firsthand what it means to fight for a roof over your head.”
Jim Walden, a lawyer running as an independent for mayor, said it’s “obscene for wealthy people like Mamdani to get rent-stabilized apartments [and] for elected officials to benefit from programs they vote on.”
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This won’t get one person to change their vote.
$2300 a month, for a single bedroom?
The greatest gap between “the rich” and “the poor” exists in Communist countries. He is just following the Communist program.
Make him live in a refrigerator box on the sidewalk outside of City Hall.
My wife said the same. I told her, "Three words: Sweet Home Alabama".
Yeah curious what a similar non rent controlled single bedroom goes for?
Commies always want what is best for them while everyone else suffers..but his dumb ass supporters will still support him, they dont care..he supports hamas, so do they so thats enough
What’s going to become of New York City, after they elect this communist con-man?
Socialist Supreme - Idi Amin Mamdani.
Commies NEVeR spend their own money
Let’s see Comrade Mamdani walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
They only spend other people’s money.
Whatever…he’s in. He could publicly drown a litter of kittens and he’s in
“$2300 a month, for a single bedroom?”
My sister got married in upstate NY in 1969.
She and her husband were looking for a one-bedroom apartment. I remember $190/month as a typical amount.
Adjusted for inflation, that $190/month would be $1900/month.
NYC was always more expensive than upstate.
In the Northern Virginia area, rents circa 1992 were about $600/month. That would be about $2000/month adjusted for inflation.
“rent-stabilized” is the norm for NYC I believe.
Only a small percentage are ‘rent-controlled’ as I understand things.
A larger percentage is market-rate, I believe, but that percentage can’t be large as the rates are very expensive.
And before you get high and mighty on me, remember the federal government lowered interest rates during COVID. Yup, ~3%, 30-year mortgages, mainly bought by federal entities I suspect.
He needs to pay back what he has been defrauding from the government! Plus interest - compounded. Fork it over, Pal!
Did he break a law?
Probably not.
I would not consider myself lucky if I paid $2,300/month for a one-bedroom apartment.
Pay me $143K/year to bray and lucky me I would say.
I remember browsing the NY Times in 1982, which I subscribed to.
The prospect of paying $40K for a NYC condo/co-op and then what I paid in rent for my Northern Virginia apartment held no appeal for me.
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