NYC: Mamdani Proposes Tax Hike on ‘White Neighbourhoods’

But Mamdani’s specific mention of “whiter,” wealthier neighborhoods drew outrage from some observers. Many right-wing commentators accused Mamdani, who would be the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent if elected, of targeting white New Yorkers, with one labeling him a “RACIST.”

City Councilman David Carr (R-Staten Island), who’s part of the bipartisan push to reform the property tax system, said Mamdani should tone down the “rhetoric” if he’s going to help tackle a very real imbalance.

“The objective of our reforms is to make our property tax system fairer and more transparent and to ensure that middle- and working-class homeowners aren’t subsidizing lower taxes for wealthy property owners,” Carr said.

“It’s not about blaming people based on race or class or political affiliation, and if Zohran Mamdani wants to come on board, then he should drop the divisive rhetoric.”

But many New Yorkers in affluent neighborhoods weren’t happy about their property taxes potentially going up.

Ron Centola, a 73-year old retiree, has rented on the Upper East Side for 30 years, but still opposes redistributing wealth.

“Here’s the thing, I’m wealthy, I don’t want my wealth redistributed,” he told The Post Friday.

“I work for my money, why should I give it away?”

Another Upper East Sider — Shanice Gilbert, 33, a college assistant — noted not everyone in her hifalutin neighborhood is rich.

“Not everybody here is wealthy, how is that going to work?” she said. “It’s a mixed environment, it’s a very diverse environment. How are you going to do that?”

But he said the issue of property taxes might be an area of common ground for his group and Mamdani.

“A reform of property taxes would be absolutely instrumental in saving this housing,” he said of rent-stabilized homes.

“On property taxes, I think he would have some strange bedfellows here. I think there are many many outer-borough elected officials who have this issue and have found not enough support to actually make meaningful change.”

One Park Slope woman, who lives in a $3 million brownstone, told The Post she agrees with Mamdani even if her “modest” $5,000-a-year taxes rise.

“Private homeowners have a real deal,” she said.

“I think people in co-ops and condos get hammered. I’m all for it. People got to share.”