Judge rules Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax rollout needs a do-over

A Staten Island judge ruled on Tuesday that the rollout of New York City's pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes needs to be redone. The judge ordered that a previously published list of hundreds of thousands of residences in the city be removed. The Department of Finance may replace the list with a roll showing properties actually subject to the tax. Mailed tax notices to homeowners potentially facing the tax are to be canceled and replaced with notifications to the properties actually affected. The ruling comes after NYC homeowners sued the city in August, calling the tax rollout confusing and a privacy violation.

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