Mamdani Threatens Suit Over ICE Use of City Parking Lots

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has threatened legal action against federal immigration authorities if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues using city-owned parking lots without authorization, setting up a dispute with the Department of Homeland Security over access to municipal property. In a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, acting ICE Director David Venturella and the agency’s New York field director, Kenneth Genalo, Mamdani identified a lot at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and parking lots along 111th Street beside Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. The letter said the city had not authorized ICE to use the locations and warned that New York would sue if agents continued using them without permission. The mayor’s office has reported that ICE agents used the lots to park vehicles or gather before enforcement operations. The reports have not been independently confirmed in the accounts of the letter, and the precise frequency of any activity at the named sites was not established. Mamdani’s administration says a February executive order bars non-city law enforcement from using municipal property without permission or a judicial warrant,...