Hedge fund titan Cliff Asness ripped New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s plans for a rent freeze — warning it would be a “hydrogen bomb” for the local real estate market.

Speaking exclusively to The Post on Tuesday, the 59-year-old Wall Street tycoon — whose net worth Forbes places at $2.9 billion — shredded the left-wing firebrand’s proposed policy to ban price hikes for rent-stabilized apartments.

“Rent control is one of the few issues almost all economists agree destroys the city. So let’s triple down. Genius,” Asness said sarcastically on the final day of voting in citywide elections.

“A rent freeze is the hydrogen bomb to the atomic bomb of regular rent controls,” he added.

Asness likewise suggested a new motto for the city under Mamdani, who’s been widely critici

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