As Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani surges ahead in New York City’s mayoral race, residents are racing to secure homes in the leafy, affluent enclaves of Connecticut and Westchester County — driven by anxieties over potential policy shifts that could reshape the city’s economic and social fabric.
These, I think, are people who are tied to NYfC by their jobs on Wall Street or wherever, and can’t join the hordes of Noo Yawkers who have already fled for Florida, Texas and anywhere that’s not the Northeast. So they have to leave the Upper East Side, but can’t go too far away from Downtown.
Hence: Connecticut and locales outside the Five Boroughs.
“Many buyers are mentioning concerns about the mayoral election as a key driver.”
Buyers repeatedly voice worries about rising levies, public safety and urban livability under a Mamdani administration.
Like NYfC isn’t a big enough shithole already.
As Stephen Green points out:
The guy isn’t even elected yet, and already the sheep he counted on fleecing are fleeing instead.
And as one famous ex-Manhattanite might put it:
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.
