A Staten Island judge Monday temporarily paused the hotly contested rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s so-called pied-à-terre tax that levies a surcharge on wealthy New Yorkers who have a second home in the city. “[The judgment] annuls and vacates [the] City’s mailed notices, and any determination that such mailed notices constitute proper notice under tax law.” Kathy Hochul to pass the tax in this year’s state budget as a new revenue source for the city budget. Mamdani has previously defended posting the roll of 900,000 properties online, saying it was simply part of the city’s state-mandated routine tax roll publication. The tax is expected to be paid on June tax bills next year.