Why the city’s property owners are frustrated, by the numbers:
- 300,000: Open petitions challenging New York City property tax assessments
- 4: Judges handling them
- 0: Cases that went to trial in a year.
The result: A mess of angry taxpayers, overworked city defense lawyers, and a mayor’s race that could bring change, my colleague Beth Wang reports.
Beth dug into the city’s backlogged Tax Commission, where institutions from Macy’s to NYU are waiting in line with other petitioners whose filings, in some cases, date back to the ‘70s. The issue is coming to a head amid a ...
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