August 13, 2010 12:03PM 

# Mayor Bloomberg Loves Property Rights 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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A [front-page story](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/nyregion/13bloomberg.html) in today’s *New York Times* begins:

> Michael R. Bloomberg is a former Wall Street mogul with a passion for the rights of a private property owner.

The story is about the not-really-at-Ground-Zero mosque, of course.

Bloomberg has a passion for property rights — except when the property owner wants to [allow smoking](https://www.cato.org/research/articles/levy-021009.html) on his own property or just wants to [keep](http://www.manhattan-institute.org/email/crd_newsletter05-06.html) the property he owns [even if a richer person wants it](http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=5678).

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[Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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