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Mamdani plans to ask NYC garage owners to block ICE usage in guilt-tripping letter: sources

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McCarthy, C., & Oliveira, A. (2026, October 15). Mamdani plans to ask NYC garage owners to block ICE usage in guilt-tripping letter: sources. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/us-news/mamdani-plans-to-ask-nyc-garage-owners-to-block-ice-usage-in-guilt-tripping-letter-sources/

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-15 · by Craig McCarthy, Alex Oliveira

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani intends to send a letter to New York City's private garage owners asking them to refuse requests from ICE to use their property for staging enforcement operations. According to sources, the draft letter emphasizes that such cooperation could endanger businesses and communities, urging owners instead to align with city sanctuary policies. The mayor’s initiative follows recent controversial incidents involving ICE activities at private properties, including a Bronx Target parking lot used for months prior to an immigration-related shooting incident in October.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, along with other New York Democrats, has urged private parking lot owners in New York City to block ICE from using their properties as staging areas for enforcement operations. This plea came after an ICE officer shot 28-year-old Dominican immigrant Oscar Belgal during an arrest last week in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood. The letter, sent on Friday, cites concerns that such uses of private property risk placing owners and their customers at the center of potentially harmful actions against local communities. Some critics, like the New York Post editorial board, argue that this move could be seen as obstruction of justice under federal law.

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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be investigated for using $1.6 million in taxpayer funds to push New Yorkers to back ballot proposals with messaging that plastered his face on buses and kiosks, a city lawmaker said.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been quietly playing pickup basketball with buddies at an NYPD gym in Queens, sources confirmed to The Post.
🔮 The City Council quietly passed a controversial bill that would give nonprofits the first shot at buying up distressed Big Apple properties.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law in 10 months since taking office — leaving critics to wonder if the millennial mayor is more interested in social media stardom than his daily government duties.
🔮 Chi Ossé, a Democratic Socialists of American chum of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, ditched government hearings on Monday and Tuesday to instead travel multiple hours outside of his Brooklyn district to head to Rochester and Syracuse.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America crony Chi Ossé has the worst attendance record of any member of the City Council, records show.
🔮 “So, how is it that, within seconds, I could find a sexualized image of myself using Grok?”
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to ask private New York City garage and parking lot owners to block ICE agents from using their property, The Post has learned.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies are publicly breaking with him over his handpicked police commissioner — and Hizzoner is livid that the socialist House candidate he went out on a limb to endorse is leading the charge.
🔮 Levine told The New York Times he made the decision solely on financial grounds, but critics suspected he was caving to Israel-bashers in the Democratic party, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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🔮 Bystanders were mercifully able to flag down police and stop trains from barreling into the station until they could free her from the roadbed, but she was severly injured.
🔮 “No rational adult would show up to a job with proximity to kids in a skimpy costume and a reference to a novel about the sexual abuse of a child by a middle-aged man … and then revive the controversy by engaging in lawfare,” she added.
🔮 The attorneys — state AG Letitia James, and city District Attorneys Melinda Katz and Eric Gonzalez — stared blank-faced when asked by The Post about the damning report at a Thursday gun-safety press conference. “Did any of you order prosecutors to downgrade gun charges to keep illegal immigrants in the US, per the Judiciary Committee report the recent house judiciary report?” a reporter asked, explaining the report could clearly indicate a gun-safety issue.
🔮 One ex even said that he claimed he would rape a male intruder breaking into his apartment — to show dominance.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be investigated for using $1.6 million in taxpayer funds to push New Yorkers to back ballot proposals with messaging that plastered his face on buses and kiosks, a city lawmaker said.
🔮 “This is a situation you created and that you could have completely avoided.”
🔮 Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman warned New York voters that congestion pricing could come to a “community near you” if Gov. Kathy Hochul wins reelection Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, vowed to kill the program outright if he beats the Democratic incumbent in the Nov. 3 election as he claimed Hochul could have a menu of new taxes she could unleash if she secures another term. “Doesn’t matter whether it’s New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Binghamton or any town in between,” Blakeman claimed while speaking on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan Tuesday.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani stumped with Gov. Kathy Hochul for the first time Friday — hoping to give the moderate Democrat a boost with his lefty base in New York City less than two weeks before Election Day.
🔮 That means about 200 carriage drivers will see their livelihoods – and entire industry – vanish from the city without a trace in less than two years.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law in 10 months since taking office — leaving critics to wonder if the millennial mayor is more interested in social media stardom than his daily government duties.
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ICE ORG · 11× Mamdani PERSON · 6× Belgal PERSON · 2× NYPD ORG · 2× New York City GPE · 2× New Yorkers NORP · 2× Tisch PERSON · 2× Post ORG · 1× The Post ORG · 1× Zohran Mamdani PERSON · 1×

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“Each such use, whether part of a formal or informal arrangement or no arrangement at all, gives ICE a launching point for operations that have terrified and terrorized local communities,” the draft read, adding that such deals risk “placing your property, your employees, and your customers at the center of that.”
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🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to ask private New York City garage and parking lot owners to block ICE agents from using their property, The Post has learned.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to ask private New York City garage and parking lot owners to block ICE agents from using their property, The Post has learned. asserted
Post → plan → property
“I am asking that you do not rent, lend, or otherwise make your property available to ICE as a staging area for its enforcement operations,” Mamdani writes in the letter, a draft of which was obtained by The Post on Thursday. asserted
draft → ask → Thursday
“Make it known to ICE that it is not authorized to use your garages and lots.” The draft was being circulated among local lawmakers as City Hall was trying to pool support for his plea and get other pols to sign on. asserted
pols → make → plea
It wasn’t immediately clear when the letter would be sent or how many business owners were on the mailing list. asserted
owners → send → list
The letter was apparently sparked by reports that a Bronx garage serving a Target was used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents involved in last week’s shooting of illegal immigrant Oscar Belgal. asserted
garage → spark → Belgal
ICE had been using that lot for months — as far back as April — to stage its immigration operations across the borough, Gothamist reported. asserted
Gothamist → use → borough
Mamdani’s letter cited at least three other instances of ICE using private lots to stage its operations across the city. asserted
ICE → cite → city
“Each such use, whether part of a formal or informal arrangement or no arrangement at all, gives ICE a launching point for operations that have terrified and terrorized local communities,” the draft read, adding that such deals risk “placing your property, your employees, and your customers at the center of that.” asserted
deals → give → that
Mamdani explained the ways in which the Big Apple blocks ICE from using its property for staging enforcement operations — in line with the city’s sanctuary policies, which bar cooperation with federal immigration enforcement — and flat-out asked garage owners to fall in line. asserted
which → explain → line
“These laws govern City property, not the private lots and garages that you operate. asserted
you → govern → that
That is why we need your help,” the draft reads. asserted
draft → need → help
Hizzoner framed the plea as coming from a position of “solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers and our shared commitment to the city we love,” adding that it came at “a critical juncture for our city.” asserted
it → frame → city
The letter went even further — pulling at heartstrings with reminders that “every day, your garages and lots serve the people who make New York City work,” and telling the owners: “thank you for the essential service that you provide to millions of New Yorkers and visitors each day.” asserted
you → go → Yorkers
The attempt to extend public sanctuary laws to the private sector comes as Mamdani faced mounting pressure from his Democratic Socialists of America cronies to take a drastic measure in the wake of ICE’s October 8 shooting of Belgal in Marble Hill. asserted
Mamdani → extend → Hill
Belgal, 28, was in federal custody after he was shot while trying to drive away from ICE agents and suffered a wound to the neck. asserted
he → shoot → neck
His 5-year-old son was also in the car during the shooting, and made it out unscathed. asserted
son → make → it
Mamdani’s allies, including DSA darling and US House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, have set their sights on Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch in the aftermath, accusing her of violating sanctuary policies that bar the NYPD from working with ICE. asserted
that → include → ICE
That’s despite Tisch presiding over one of the city’s steepest drops in violent crime, and the NYPD having no involvement in the ICE incident. asserted
NYPD → ’ → incident
Several other prominent progressives have also broken ranks with Mamdani and called on him to can Tisch or for her to step down — though the mayor has staunchly refused, insisting the commissioner isn’t going anywhere. asserted
commissioner → break → Tisch
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