Jihad Mayor Mamdani Pushes ‘Rezoning’ Plan for Muslim Area

By Pamela Geller - on May 23, 2026

Mamdani is worse than even the most pessimistic among us expected. And that is saying something.

Mamdani Pushes ‘Rezoning’ Plan for Muslim Area That Could Reward His Donors With Millions

By: Daniel Greenfield, Jihadwatch, May 23, 2026:

I certainly hope the FBI and the DOJ are going to keep a close eye on who profits.

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Zohran Mamdani’s political takeover of New York City was backed by a leftist-Islamist coalition, but abstract ideology only gets you so far. Plenty of the Muslim donors and voters weren’t there just for religious and racial reasons, but they hoped to reap tangible benefits from the move And that’s where the corruption tends to come in.

People have been focused on the ‘free grocery store’, but plans like this may be much closer to where the money is really going as Mamdani proposes massive rezoning of an area that has a large Muslim population.

The City Planning Commission is referring to its new initiative as the “South of Prospect Plan” and aims to rezone the commercial corridors of McDonald and Coney Island avenues, as well as surrounding blocks, for taller buildings and more housing development.

The blocks currently feature long stretches of single-story businesses, autobody shops and low-rise homes. Four subway lines connect the neighborhood to Manhattan, and in the coming years, a new light rail line could traverse the area, providing direct access to Queens, making the Brooklyn blocks prime real estate for new housing.

And anyone owning real estate in the area, including the small houses that the mostly Bangladeshi and Pakistani Muslim occupants in the area have settled in, will stand to make tens of millions of dollars.

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The area south of Prospect Park overlaps with districts represented by Councilmembers Shahana Hanif, Rita Joseph, Farah Louis and Simcha Felder.

Hanif and Joseph each said they support the plan.

Shahana Hanif is a Bangladeshi Muslim councilwoman affiliated with the DSA. And a Mamdani ally who represents the Bangladeshi settler population in the area.

I certainly hope the FBI and the DOJ are going to keep a close eye on who profits from this Mamdani plan.

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