New York —
A Staten Island judge on Monday temporarily blocked the controversial rollout of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, which paused enforcement of one of his signature campaign promises: taxing the rich.
Shortly after the ruling, New York City filed a motion for permission to appeal, which will stay the order in the lower courts. “The City will continue with the pied-à-terre’s implementation,” Matt Rauschenbach, a spokesperson for the mayor, said in a statement.
The judge’s order paused the rollout of the surcharge on
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