“I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said back in June. “We’ve lost enough.”
Hochul was talking taxes then, but the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who told pollsters last month they would “definitely” pack up and leave the city if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor have plenty of other reasons to go.
Just ask Charles Foehner, the 67-year-old retired Queens doorman who in May 2023 defended himself with lethal force from an assailant with 15 prior arrests and a history of mental illness…