Mamdani-backed NYC Council candidate Lindsey Boylan lives lavish life-style, converts to Israel critic

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hand-picked candidate for a City Council seat representing Greenwich Village is proving that socialism appears to be like a complete lot higher from a $6 million Westchester manor and a $3.7 million Chelsea apartment, critics advised The Post.

Lindsey Boylan — a former senior aide to ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was the primary lady to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment — joined Mamdani as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America final 12 months whereas campaigning to assist him defeat her ex-boss. Cuomo has denied any wrongdoing.

Boylan is married to funding banker LeRoy Kim, and lives with him and their daughter in a lush five-bedroom residence in ritzy Bedford, NY.

During a Bedford zoning board of appeals meeting in December, Boylan whined about spending “thousands of dollars a month on landscaping” alone for the pristine property whereas searching for approval for a brand new deck.

Boylan, 42, and her household have additionally lengthy lived in a swanky Chelsea apartment valued at $3.7 million.

Kim is a deep-pocketed managing director of boutique funding banking agency Allen & Company, which notoriously holds an extremely unique convention in Sun Valley, Idaho, extensively nicknamed “Summer Camp for Billionaires.

Critics have been galled by what they described as Boylan’s brazen opportunism.

“America, what a country!” marveled a prime NYC union chief. “Lindsey Boylan can re-brand herself the socialist darling of the left while retreating to a seven‑figure country house upstate. At least she’s temporarily creating jobs for her third failed run for office.”

The silver-spoon socialist has embraced a lot of Mamdani’s Israel-hating beliefs whereas campaigning for Council, bashing the Jewish state for “unacceptable mass killing of civilians and journalists” and calling the warfare in Gaza a “genocide.”

The remarks fly within the face of her previous advocacy for Israel.

“I’m someone who has an unshakeable support for Israel,” Boylan advised Jewish Insider in 2019.

Boylan beforehand misplaced two bids for elected workplace — in 2020 to exchange Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan), and in 2021 to grow to be Manhattan borough president.

During her failed run to unseat Nadler, Boylan cozied as much as Harold “Heshy” Tischer, a controversial Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish energy dealer and Republican firebrand who was convicted of fraud in 2013.

In a campaign-endorsement video Tischler posted on X, Boylan gushed about visiting Jerusalem along with her household and declared her “love” for the Jewish neighborhood. She even accepted an invite to sometime journey again to Israel with Tischler.

Tischler can be a staunch critic of homosexual marriage — one thing that wouldn’t go over properly in Manhattan’s third Council district, the place Boylan is operating. The district contains the Stonewall Inn, extensively thought of the birthplace of the homosexual rights motion.

Boylan is searching for to fill a vacant seat beforehand held by Democrat Erik Bottcher, who was sworn in as a state senator in February.

Gay advocates have blasted Mamdani for endorsing Boylan as a result of district voters have for greater than three many years routinely elected homosexual candidates to the Council publish.

Bottcher is backing his former prime aide Carl Wilson, who’s homosexual, to succeed him, as are many native Democratic membership and City Council Speaker and occasional Mamdani foe Julie Menin.

Despite Boylan locking up Mamdani’s endorsement, the DSA has opted to remain out of the race. Instead, Boylan’s different foremost endorsements embody the far-left Working Families Party.

Boylan dodged questions on her wealth and her stances on Israel, however issued a press release Friday saying she’s been “proud to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community” her “complete profession, and can proceed to take action within the Council — particularly as we face federal assaults on gender affirming look after our trans siblings and youth.

“My campaign is about all the voters of this district — trans and queer people included — and building a city we can all afford to live in and be proud of,” she added.