Mamdani doubles down on Ken Griffin attack despite Citadels threat to pull $6 billion NYC project

He has Zo regrets!Mayor Zohran Mamdani was remorseless Friday about dragging billionaire Ken Griffin in a viral video promoting a new, proposed pied-á-terre tax.Hizzoner dodged when asked if he had any regrets about calling out Griffin specifically in the video last week filmed in front of the Citadel founder’s 24,000-square-foot property on Central Park South, which he purchased for $238 million in 2019.“That home, when it was purchased, was the most expensive home in the United States of America, publicly reported, and it was described as such,” Mamdani said when pressed by reporters during an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn.“And in a political environment where there is always an attempt to describe any increase in taxes as if it would be one that would apply to all, we wanted to make very clear that this applies to a very select group of properties,” he said.It was the latest volley in a back-and-forth with Griffin launched by Mamdani’s eyebrow-raising April 15 video, in which he boasted that “today, we’re taxing the rich.”He then spotlighted the Florida-based hedge fund titan’s Manhattan penthouse as one that would be hit by Gov.Kathy Hochul’s proposed tax on multi-million dollar secondary homes in New York City.But Griffin was not amused, with a top executive at his fund blasting the mayor’s comments in a searing, company-wide email Thursday — and signaling he might pull a $6 billion development project in Midtown.“From his comments, it is apparent that the Mayor’s view is that these individuals do not contribute enough to the greater good,” Citadel COO Gerald Beeson wrote in the missive obtained by The Post.“It is shameful that he used Ken’s name as the example of those who supposedly aren’t carrying their fair share of the burdens associated with New York City’s often costly and wasteful spending,” he wrote.

“In doing so, the Mayor has once again manifested the ignorance and disdain of the elite political ...