Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stunning mayoral win has sent New York\u2019s elite parents into panic mode \u2014 and packing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Tuesday night\u2019s results, school placement consultant Christopher Rim says his phone hasn\u2019t stopped buzzing. The founder and CEO of Command Education told The Post that at least 23 clients have reached out since the Associated Press called the race, desperate to get their kids into private schools outside the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWithin the first 30 minutes of AP announcing Mamdani\u2019s victory, I got three messages from families looking to move,\u201d Rim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some saw it coming months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOver the summer, I started hearing families say, \u2018I don\u2019t know what we are going to do if this guy wins,\u2019\u201d Rim said. Sure enough, six of his clients already fled to Connecticut towns like Greenwich, Darien, and Riverside before the school year began. \u201cThey were like, \u2018He\u2019s going to win, and there\u2019s no reason [to wait],\u2019\u201d Rim recalled<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exodus includes families with kids enrolled at some of New York\u2019s most elite schools \u2014 Trinity, Riverdale, Horace Mann, Ramaz, and Avenues \u2014 with students ranging from third grade through high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many, Rim said, are Jewish parents rattled by rising antisemitism and Mamdani\u2019s controversial stances on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey\u2019re saying they\u2019re worried about safety in their everyday life,\u201d Rim said. \u201cI don\u2019t even think it\u2019s a financial thing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the taxes or how much more money they would have to pay to live here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As families flee, Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Hampton Synagogue is preparing for an influx. He announced plans Tuesday to open the Hamptons\u2019 first Jewish day school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is in anticipation of the thousands of Jewish Families that will flock to the Hamptons and greater Suffolk County to escape the antisemitic climate of Mamdani\u2019s New York,\u201d Schneier wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A J.L. Partners poll released just before Election Day found 9% of New Yorkers said they would \u201cdefinitely\u201d leave if Mamdani won, and another 25% said they were thinking about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Rim, most of his clients are now eyeing schools in Florida \u2014 including American Heritage in Plantation, Lehrman Day School in Miami Beach, Pine Crest in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Ransom Everglades in Miami, and Miami Country Day School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zohran Mamdani\u2019s stunning mayoral win has sent New York\u2019s elite parents into panic mode \u2014 and packing. Since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}