{"id":6488,"date":"2026-08-13T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:54:52","slug":"mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-unpaused-after-surprise-ruling-but-legal-showdown-isnt-over-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6488","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s pied-\u00e0-terre tax unpaused after surprise ruling \u2014 but legal showdown isn’t over yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The pause is on pause.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stumbling pied-\u00e0-terre tax rollout is back in effect after a surprise appeals court ruling on Thursday \u2014 but the fight isn\u2019t over yet.<\/p>\n

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The appellate court decision only temporarily lifts a restraining order on the tax issued by a lower court on Monday, allowing City Hall to continue with the botched rollout until the full appeals panel considers the case.<\/p>\n

Associate Justice Philip Hom of the Brooklyn Appellate Division signed the order Thursday.<\/p>\n

In opposition papers filed Thursday in the appeal case, former first deputy mayor Randy Mastro \u2014 representing three peeved city homeowners suing the city over the rollout \u2014 called the Mamdani administration\u2019s attempted end-run to keep implementing the tax is \u201can astonishing display of chutzpah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a shame that the City can\u2019t own up to its own mistakes and admit that it has badly botched the rollout of this surcharge,\u201d Mastro said after the appeals court order was issued. \u201cInstead, the administration is doubling down, going to court to ensure that it can continue harassing and threatening New York City homeowners who clearly are permanent residents \u2014 something the City would know if it would only do its homework.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city, he said in the court papers, is \u201ccompounding their illegal conduct by going to extraordinary lengths to avoid a three-week pause in their harassment campaign of New York City homeowners, all done in their zeal to impose a Surcharge that does not have to be invoiced until November 15, 2026 and collected until January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mastro\u2019s filing accused the city of \u201cnegligence, laziness or intentionality\u201d in ignoring the data at their fingertips to make these tax determinations prior to the scattershot of mailed notices, suggesting that the city may have intentionally hoped to rake in extra cash over a failure to file an exemption by the deadline.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest drama on<\/strong> Zohran Mamdani\u2019s pied-\u00e0-terre tax rollout:<\/h2>\n