Longtime New Yorkers fume after being hit with massive pied-à-terre tax bills: ‘Is this a witch hunt?’

NYPost.com ^ | 7/28/26 | By Greg Carlton, Craig McCarthy, Hannah Fierick and Chris Nesi

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Longtime New Yorkers fume after being hit with massive pied-à-terre tax bills: ‘Is this a witch hunt?’

New Yorkers were seething Tuesday after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration alerted them they’d be on the hook for the state’s new pied-à-terre tax — which was explicitly sold as a levy targeting wealthy owners of luxury second homes.

Longtime residents — some who have called the Big Apple home for decades and own a single abode in the city — told The Post they were shocked to get hit with five-figure tax bills they believe were mistakenly mailed out, and are now being forced to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth to prove it.

“Whoever’s behind this, who I can only assume is the mayor, didn’t take the 30 seconds to research,” said Karen Young, president and founder of New York and Paris-based beauty marketing company The Young Group, who has lived in New York since 1972.

[catnipman]

screw all of ya’s: ya got what ya voted for, good and hard!

[dfwgator]

You asked for it, you got it, Mamdani!

[dfwgator]

Exactly, no sympathy.

[chiller]

True, but 75% will vote to recall the commie

[Enterprise]

[17th Miss Regt]

No. He will seize the owners and place them in ‘work camps’.

[joshua c]

karen sez im on your side

commie sez we dont care

[MacNaughton]

[doorgunner69]

“Welcome to the “warmth of collectivism”.”

That is why they live in a polluted anthill of other liberals.

[Texas resident]

From those according to their ability....

Welcome to NYC’s version of marxism.

It never ends well.

[nwrep]

Good for him. He is doing our work in minting Republicans in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

[NonValueAdded]

for the state’s new pied-à-terre tax

I thought this was only for NYC

[FLT-bird]

Ain’t socialism grand?

[FLT-bird]

[LoveMyFreedom]

Got to get money for the free grocery stores from somewhere!!

[meyer]

Maybe it’s time for “the people” to take matters into their own hands.

[Vision]

Welcome to Communism New Dorkers.

[Sirius Lee]

I would bet serious money that 75% of these whiners voted for Mr. Z.

Or worse. Didn't bother to vote at all. They especially deserve to get it good and hard.

[NFHale]

Re “… they believe were mistakenly mailed out,…”

Yeah… That’s it… That’s right… They were “mistakenly mailed out”…

That’s just brilliant… Idiots are getting exactly what they voted for.

And then they’ll run to another state and vote for Democrats all over again.

[qwerty1234]

I simply don’t care....this is what the voters of New York voted for....this is what they are getting.

Next time vote better.