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 plans to ask private New York City garage and parking lot owners to refuse access to ICE agents, according to a draft letter obtained by The New York Post on October 15, 2026. The mayor's initiative stems from reports that a Bronx garage was used by ICE for months as a staging area for immigration operations, including those related to the recent shooting of illegal immigrant Oscar Belgal. Mamdani argues in his draft letter that allowing ICE to use private property risks placing property owners, employees, and customers at the center of feared and terrorizing enforcement activities. The draft is being circulated among local lawmakers as City Hall seeks support for this request. It remains unclear when the final letter will be sent or how many business owners are on the mailing list.

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Craig McCarthy
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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.
🔮 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.
🔮 “He’d be fine if ICE agents shoot into cars, shoot guns into vehicles, not knowing who’s inside and could have killed a five-year-old child,” she said.
🔮 The Mamdani administration recycled old footage from a prior mayor’s staff to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day — while skipping any mention of Italian-American New Yorkers or his hated Columbus Day.
🔮 A new state bill would require colleges to reimburse tuition to sexual assault victims – after a report that Cornell denied a refund to the student at the center of the “Cornell 7” gang rape scandal.
🔮 An Israeli diplomat has invited Mayor Zohran Mamdani to watch a nearly hour-long documentary about the Oct. 7 terror attacks — hoping the horrors from the footage filmed by Hamas themselves will “convey the reality of what happened.”
🔮 “From my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” said Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, who warned last month that AI could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity.
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $30 million plan to fight antisemitism in the Big Apple boosts funding for non-profit organizations that have zero ties to the Jewish community — including a rabid anti-Israel group.
🔮 Hundreds of texts and emails between top officials in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration and the city’s Rent Guidelines Board were released as part of a lawsuit alleging unlawful collusion between the independent body and City Hall.
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Alex Oliveira
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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.
🔮 Lawler, the Republican incumbent seeking his third term, said the high-profile ICE shooting last week in the Big Apple could have been prevented if local law enforcement were able to cooperate with federal immigration officers.
🔮 Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman faced off Tuesday night in the only debate of their hotly contested gubernatorial election campaign — trading barbs on affordability, immigration, President Trump, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
🔮 Despite that alarming history, politicians including Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his leftists pals called on Belgal’s release and demanded the abolishment of ICE – with the likes of Styles taking up the call. “I just want us to take a moment to think about Oscar Belgal tonight,” Styles recently said at Madison Square Garden, where he’s in the midst of a residency tour.
🔮 None of that stopped Mayor Zohran Mamdani from referring to Belgal as “a New Yorker” in a raging tribute Thursday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a label some Bronx locals took offense to.
🔮 She was listed as a sober monitor for a party her sorority was throwing at a downtown Ithaca bar that night — but started drinking after learning somebody else would be covering her duty.
🔮 Newell then reiterated that he had no memory of any of that happening, writing, “had I been less f**ked up and even somewhat aware of the situation and how out of hand it got, I would’ve shut it down the second guys started walking in the room.” But the local Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office declined to bring any charges against the brothers, citing a statement from Doe provided by campus police which they claimed never accused anyone of rape and also showed she willingly ingested the alcohol and drugs throughout the night.
🔮 Firebrand socialist streamer Hasan Piker backed the anti-Israel protestors who heckled Mayor Zohran Mamdani during an Oct. 7 vigil at a Manhattan park — prompting critics to chuckle that the left was “eating itself.”
🔮 “We need to safeguard the income of fishers and the catch so that we can continue to eat the foods that we have relied on for generations,” said Avannaata Mayor Lars Erik Gabrielsen.
🔮 Ottumwa Mayor Benjamin Foote then announced there would be 30 seconds of silence “to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on at this time” — and after city council members tried to move the meeting along, the mayor butted back and the silence continued.
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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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