Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office published a searchable pied-à-terre tax list that disclosed the names and home addresses of wealthy New Yorkers, including many of his own high-profile supporters, drawing bipartisan criticism and safety concerns.
Actress Cynthia Nixon, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, director Darren Aronofsky, Taylor Swift, author Deepak Chopra, journalist Gay Talese, billionaire philanthropist Leonard Stern, and real estate developers Morris Moinian and Bruce Ratner all appeared on the list, as first reported by Breitbart. Several of those named are known Mamdani supporters, people who backed the mayor politically and now find their residential information posted for anyone to search.
The list was supposed to identify owners of secondary properties in New York City, so-called pied-à-terre units, as part of the mayor's push for a new tax on those holdings. But at least one elected official on the list says her address is not a secondary home at all, raising questions about how carefully the mayor's office compiled the data before making it public.
Gale Brewer, a District 6 Democrat on the City Council, found herself on the pied-à-terre list despite living at her listed address full-time for three decades.
Brewer did not hold back:
"I've been living in [my place] 365 days a year since 1994. So, this whole list must be messed up."
If a sitting council member's own primary residence ended up flagged as a secondary property, it raises an obvious question: how many other names on the list are there by mistake? The mayor's office has not publicly addressed Brewer's complaint or explained what vetting process, if any, was used before the list went live.
Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax has already hit roughly 17,000 New Yorkers with notices, and critics have warned that the burden of proof falls on homeowners to demonstrate their property is a primary residence, not on the city to prove it is not.
Republican Council Minority Leader David Carr seized on the list as evidence that the mayor is accelerating the city's talent and wealth drain. Carr called Mamdani "realtor of the year" for the state of Texas, a pointed jab suggesting the mayor's tax agenda will push affluent residents out of New York entirely.
The criticism from Carr reflects a straightforward concern shared by fiscal conservatives: when a city government publicly targets high-net-worth property owners by name and address, the message to anyone with the means to leave is unmistakable. Texas, Florida, and other no-income-tax states have spent years courting exactly the kind of residents Mamdani just put on a searchable list.
The mayor's broader record has drawn fire from multiple directions. He stayed silent for hours after suspected antisemitic stabbings while posting about housing taxes, a sequence of priorities that fueled calls for accountability.
Spencer Pratt, the former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, offered the sharpest public reaction. Pratt framed the list as something more dangerous than a policy disagreement, he characterized it as an invitation to harassment or worse.
"This is what commies do. They mark their enemies, call them 'fascists', and that's the bat signal: they know their deranged commie street animals will Luigi them. They never have to explicitly call for violence...violence is just the inherent reflex of the commie. Message receive."
Pratt's language is heated, but the underlying concern is not fringe. Publishing the home addresses of private citizens alongside their names in a searchable government document creates a security exposure that no amount of policy rationale can fully justify. Whether the mayor's office intended it as a transparency measure or a pressure tactic, the practical effect is that anyone with an internet connection can now locate the homes of the people on the list.
A parody social media account impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio also weighed in, mocking the wealthy New Yorkers who may have voted for Mamdani and telling them to pay up and live with the consequences. The post was not from Rubio himself.
The controversy lands at a moment when Mamdani already faces mounting political pressure. Nearly 17,000 people signed a petition to bar him from the 25th anniversary 9/11 ceremony, and his clashes with federal officials have escalated, most notably when President Trump publicly rebuked him over threats to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on U.S. soil.
Among the names the New York Post identified on the list was Morley Safer, described in the source as a former *60 Minutes* writer. Safer is widely known to have died in May 2016. His appearance on a current tax-targeting list raises further doubts about the accuracy of the data the mayor's office used.
The list also includes Taylor Swift, though she is not described as a Mamdani supporter, only as one of the high-profile names whose address now appears in a public, searchable city document.
No details have emerged about the proposed tax rate, the legal authority under which the mayor's office compiled the list, or whether any formal rulemaking process preceded its publication. The mayor's office has not responded publicly to the wave of criticism.
Meanwhile, basic governance in New York City continues to slip. A 12-block homeless encampment has spread across Manhattan as the mayor stalls on enforcement, the kind of visible failure that makes a luxury-property tax list look less like fiscal policy and more like a distraction.
When a mayor's own supporters wake up to find their home addresses published in a government database built to shake them down, the policy has stopped being about revenue. It is about control, and the people paying the price never voted for that.
