Dana Rubinstein and Sally Goldenberg, Mamdani’s Tax Return: $1,600 From Rapping and $131,000 From Politics (New York Times, April 16, 2026)

Springtime in City Hall can mean many things: pothole-filling news conferences, budget battles, parks department ribbon cuttings.

On Thursday, another of those springtime rites of passage arrived anew, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his joint tax return filed with his wife, Rama Duwaji.

Anyone looking for evidence of secret wealth would be disappointed: In 2025, he and his wife reported a total income of roughly $145,000, the bulk of it coming from his state assemblyman’s salary of $131,296.

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