A Staten Island judge has temporarily blocked the hotly contested rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s so-called pied-à-terre tax that levies a surcharge on wealthy New Yorkers who have a second home in the city.
The decision comes in a suit filed Friday by homeowners — including members of Republican City Council Member Frank Morano’s family — who are arguing that the way Mamdani rolled out the pied-à-terre tax created “mass confusion” and therefore should be paused so second-home owners have more time than the current deadline of Sept. 18 to appeal the tax being levied on them and get their documents in order. They are represented by attorney Randy Mastro, formerly a first deputy mayor to Eric Adams.
