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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration published a searchable database of 950,000 properties through the Department of Finance, identifying landowners potentially subject to a proposed pied-à-terre tax on non-primary residences valued above $5 million.
The case for taxing wealthy second-home owners is intact.
The question is whether publishing the names and addresses of 950,000 people, 95 percent of whom will not owe the tax by Scott Galloway's own accounting, advances that case or quietly hollows it out.
The wanted-poster charge NYU professor and "Pivot" podcast host Scott Galloway called himself a supporter of the pied-à-terre tax before using the word "doxed" to describe what had happened to him on a recent episode alongside co-host Kara Swisher.
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