The pause is on pause.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s stumbling pied-à-terre tax rollout is back in effect after a surprise appeals court ruling on Thursday — but the fight isn’t over yet.
The appellate court decision only temporarily lifts a restraining order on the tax issued by a lower court on Monday, allowing City Hall to continue with the botched rollout until the full appeals panel considers the case.
Associate Justice Philip Hom of the Brooklyn Appellate Division signed the order.
In opposition papers filed Thursday in the appeal case, former first deputy mayor Randy Mastro — representing three peeved city homeowners suing the city over the rollout — called the Mamdani administration’s attempted end-run to keep implementing the tax is “an astonishing display of chutzpah.”
The city, he added, is “compounding their illegal conduct by going to extraordinary lengths to avoid a three-week pause in their harassment campaign of New York City homeowners, all done in their zeal to impose a Surcharge that does not have to be invoiced until November 15, 2026 and collected until January.”
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