"But Mamdani did not “doxx” any New York City residents. The same information has been public — and searchable online — for decades."

If your address is in the phone book or a public databases online, but I publish it on my social media account and talk badly about you, would you consider it 'doxxing'? Most people would.

Sure, the information might be public, but posting it to the public and knowingly putting a spotlight on the people that own these properties IS doxxing.

The concept of “doxing” has come too far. You used to have a phone book that had everyone’s names, addresses and phone numbers in them. Now it’s treated as if there’s an expectation that someone’s address is very private information.

since the argument in the article is that you can already look up property owners by name in NYC, I was curious to see whether Mayor Mamdani owns real estate in the city by following the link in the article: https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/PartyNameResult...

Interestingly, nothing turns up. I take that to mean either I missed it, or the mayor doesn't own real estate in the city he is running, or it is hidden behind an LLC or something like that (I also searched by his wife's last name).

Another explanation could be that he sold it when he moved into the $100 million Gracie Mansion.

A rebuttal to

Mamdani's tax database doxed wealthy New Yorkers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158182 - August 2026 (17 comments)