Mamdani’s Push to Halt Sale of 5,000 Apartments to Big Landlord Fails NYT | Top Stories By: Colin Moynihan 17 January 2026 at 05:35 The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants. © Dave Sanders for The New York TimesMayor Zohran Mamdani, from a building owned by the Pinnacle Group, signed a series of executive orders to protect tenants on his first day in office.