The Aporia · Ken Griffin’s $3B Carnegie Mellon donation is ‘a loss for’ NYC, business leaders say

Steve Fulop, president of Partnership for New York City, stated that Ken Griffin's $3 billion donation to Carnegie Mellon University for its new Miami campus represents a financial loss for New York City. This statement came after Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized Griffin over his use of a second home in Manhattan. Griffin’s donation includes $2 billion for the Miami campus and $1 billion for the Pittsburgh main campus, but no funds were allocated to Carnegie Mellon's NYC branch. Fulop also expressed concern about recent reports suggesting that city officials planned to smear business leaders critical of the pied-à-terre tax.

Written by AI on 2026-10-04, from this article's own text only (the story summary below draws on all the coverage).

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Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, the most profitable hedge fund in history, has made an unprecedented donation of $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, marking the largest single donation ever given to an American higher education institution. The funds will be used for both Carnegie Mellon's existing campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a new campus in Miami, Florida.

Griffin, who relocated his company from Chicago to Miami due to concerns about crime, plans to use $1 billion of the donation to support Pittsburgh's main campus, focusing on areas like financial aid for students and strengthening its computer science program, which will now be known as the Kenneth C Griffin School of Computer Science. The remaining $2 billion will go toward establishing a new 35-acre campus in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, set to begin construction by 2027.

The donation highlights the university's strategic expansion into technology and research fields such as health sciences, national security, energy, climate resilience, and advanced manufacturing. While celebrated in Pittsburgh and Miami for its educational benefits, it has drawn criticism from New York City business leaders who see it as a loss to their city's economic growth opportunities.

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🔮 Hedge fund honcho Ken Griffin’s record-setting donation to Carnegie Mellon University for a new campus in Miami — months after being dragged by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to promote his pied-à-terre tax — is “a loss” for New York, the head of the city’s business advocacy group said Sunday.

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Ken Griffin’s $3B Carnegie Mellon donation is ‘a loss for’ NYC, business leaders say · assertive framing

Hedge fund honcho Ken Griffin’s record-setting donation to Carnegie Mellon University for a new campus in Miami — months after being dragged by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to promote his pied-à-terre tax — is “a loss” for New York, the head of the city’s business advocacy group said Sunday. asserted

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The Citadel CEO pledged $2 billion last week to support the launch of a new 35-acre campus to turbocharge Florida’s technology industry, in addition to a $1 billion donation to the institution’s main Pittsburgh campus. asserted

CEO → pledge → campus

Griffin, 57, did not allocate any funds to Manhattan’s Carnegie Mellon campus, which business leaders claimed was no coincidence after the socialist mayor used the billionaire as a poster child for his “tax the rich” agenda. asserted

mayor → allocate → agenda

“This week, we saw a huge gift to Miami from Ken Griffin of Citadel — $3 billion. asserted

we → see → Citadel

When people have second headquarters and second offices, the philanthropy doesn’t double,” Steve Fulop, the President of Partnership for New York City, said on 77 WABC’s “Cats Roundtable.” asserted

Fulop → have → Roundtable

“It gets shared between different places. asserted

It → share → places

When Ken Griffin, who had a presence in New York City and a presence in Chicago, goes to Miami and gives that money [away], it’s a loss for us,” Fulop told host John Catsimatidis. asserted

Fulop → have → Catsimatidis

Fulop, a Democrat who served as Jersey City mayor for three terms before stepping aside last year, also addressed recent reporting by The Post that members of Hizzoner’s inner circle planned to use influencers to smear city business leaders. asserted

members → serve → leaders

“It sounded like a very extraordinary step in a negative way, especially when you think about the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,” Fulop said, adding that the singling out of any executives by democratic socialist operatives tied to City Hall would be “beyond the pale.” asserted

singling → sound → pale

“We’re in an environment with a lot of mental illness. asserted

We → ’re → illness

I reached out to the Mayor, to his political director, to his [communications] director. asserted

I → reach → director

We all connected, and they said it wasn’t true. asserted

it → connect → ?

And so, you take him at his word. asserted

you → take → word

[But] you stay vigilant and watchful. asserted

you → stay → ?

You’ve got to take [Mamdani] at his word because nothing has happened yet. asserted

nothing → get → word

” In April, Mamdani filmed a social media video in front of Griffin’s 24,000-square-foot property at 220 Central Park South, saying that the billionaire’s second home — which was purchased in 2019 for $238 million — exemplified the need for a pied-à-terre tax. asserted

which → film → tax

tax → enact → that

The city was ordered to restart its rollout of the pied-à-terre tax from scratch. asserted

city → order → scratch

City lawyers had already filed a notice of appeal. asserted

lawyers → file → appeal

Nearly 20% of state tax revenue is derived from the securities industry, which state officials estimated last year accounts for about 8% of the city’s jobs. asserted

officials → derive → jobs

“Citadel, Goldman, JP Morgan, Apollo are all talking about the attractions of Texas. asserted

Citadel → talk → Texas

That’s bad for New York,” said Fulop. asserted

Fulop → ’ → York

“We’ve got to fix that.” asserted

We → get → that

Griffin’s gift was the largest ever donation to an educational institution, dwarfing former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion endowment to Johns Hopkins in 2018. asserted

gift → dwarf → 2018

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