NYC mayoral candidates weigh in on changing unfair property tax system that burdens poor and middle-class neighborhoods Shant Shahrigian, Michael Gartland © He, Gary Brownstones on Greene Ave. in Brooklyn. Depending on your zip code, you may pay far more, or far less, for a home than someone with a similar dwelling in a different part of town.
For years, New York City’s property tax system has come under fire because homeowners in poor and middle-class neighborhoods often pay more than people who own more valuable homes in tonier parts of town.
Mayor de Blasio, who owns two homes in Park Slope. Brooklyn, and benefits from the current tax system, ran for office in 2013 on a platform devoted to ending New York’s “Tale of Two Cities” and vowed early on in his City Hall tenure to do something about property tax inequities.
NYC mayoral candidates weigh in on city s unfair property tax system
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Encouraging leaders of the city’s 76 Business Investment Districts to
expand support for local arts and arts education
Holding “the
biggest festival the country has ever seen” once it is safe to do so, including “arts organizations from every borough”
Dianne Morales, 2021. Courtesy of Dianne Morales for NYC.
“Dianne understands that NYC has lost nearly 35,000 jobs in the arts and culture industry since the pandemic began, which has devastated our economy and ravaged an industry that makes New York truly thrive,” a spokesperson for Morales’s campaign tells Artnet News. Morales wants to “prioritize supporting theaters and museums and their workers,” but also understands the role culture plays in education and mental health. “Her daughter was struggling until she found the arts in school so it’s something Dianne is very in tune with,” the spokesperson adds.