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Real estate moguls throw their money behind Adams as Mamdani threatens to freeze rents
Fox Business via MSN ^ | July 9, 2025 | Deirdre Heavey

Posted on 07/10/2025 8:36:41 AM PDT by libstripper

Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist and Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, shocked the political establishment with his primary win last month, including New York City real estate executives, with his radical ideas, like rent freezes and tax plans that single out specific neighborhoods.

Marc Holliday, CEO of SL Green, a New York-based real-estate investment trust, is hosting a fundraiser for Mamdani's opponent, Mayor Eric Adams, at One Madison Avenue, one of his office towers, on Wednesday, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Holliday invited dozens of New York City's top real-estate executives to the rooftop cocktail event Wednesday, costing $2,000 each, two people who planned to attend shared with The Wall Street Journal.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adams; mamdami; nyc; nycelection
NYC mayor's election is heating up. Adams may have a chance.
1 posted on 07/10/2025 8:36:41 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Na , islam will win


2 posted on 07/10/2025 8:38:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: libstripper

Curtis Sliwa for mayor.


3 posted on 07/10/2025 8:40:37 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: Signalman

It’ll take more than that. Sliwa and Cumo will have to drop out.


4 posted on 07/10/2025 8:45:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Signalman

Sliwa will not win


5 posted on 07/10/2025 8:47:19 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: butlerweave

Rent Control is just a sample of the destruction Mami will lay on NYC. He is just a dumb a$$ foreign national who should not be allowed to hold public office.


6 posted on 07/10/2025 8:47:41 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Signalman
Curtis Sliwa for mayor.

At this point, you might as well as vote for Zohran Mamdani.

7 posted on 07/10/2025 8:49:18 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Its sad to say but this might be one of those rare times when the GOP needs to unite behind Adams to save NYC.
Silwa can’t win and splitting the vote will only result in a communist being mayor of NYC.


8 posted on 07/10/2025 8:52:56 AM PDT by Zathras (.)
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To: butlerweave

Sadly, I think you’re correct.


9 posted on 07/10/2025 9:07:12 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: libstripper

Isn’t rent control theft?


10 posted on 07/10/2025 9:08:28 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: libstripper

Seems like the radical is doing everything he can to not get elected.


11 posted on 07/10/2025 9:20:06 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: libstripper

The headline made me think of “The Rent is Too Damn High” guy with the white hair and mutton chop sideburns.


12 posted on 07/10/2025 9:25:51 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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His action to freeze rents will cause the same disaster that happened in New York way back in 1968-1970. Rental property mysteriously went up in flames. I recall a friend of mine from the Bronx area was fed up with South Carolina. He had grown up in the Bronx and kept telling me how great it was to live there. “If you don’t see me next year, it means I moved there.” Well, he showed up at school the next year and I asked him about not going back. “I did go! But I couldn’t believe it. It was like the bombing of Dresden! Tennaments all up and down the Bronx burned to the ground!” He didn’t know that building owners had hired persons to destroy the them since they couldn’t raise rents and were losing money.


13 posted on 07/10/2025 10:11:52 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Blocked website)
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To: libstripper

Adams is in 4th place and dropping. Out of all of them, he’s the best of a bad bunch. But he’s not going to win.


14 posted on 07/10/2025 10:13:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: butlerweave

Republicans should simply stand back and let Mamdani win the race. He will be a constant source of embarrassment to the national Democrats, and he will drive the business community back to the Republicans.


15 posted on 07/10/2025 11:53:47 AM PDT by phil00071
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Sliwa will not win

No, but he can siphon votes away from Cuomo and Adams. And that's a good thing because I really want Mamdani to win.

16 posted on 07/10/2025 1:35:16 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Why?


17 posted on 07/10/2025 1:40:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: libstripper

I have come to the conclusion that Mandami will (and should) win.

IF socialism is great and wonderful and will create a utopia on earth, his election will be a blessing.

IF, as I suspect, socialism is evil and destructive and will turn New York into more of a cesspool than it already is, this will be a blessing...for the rest of America.

We will have a clear example of the impact of socialism on a major American city. This should be sufficient to keep any other city from going down the same path.


18 posted on 07/10/2025 1:43:50 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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