Don’t Price Us Out, New Yorkers Plead Amid Property Tax Overhaul

Sheila Lewandowski bought her Queens home in 2001 with her former husband for $265,000. It’s probably worth four times that now.

If she had to pay four times the property taxes she did 20 years ago, she’s not sure she could afford to stay.

“I don’t want to be displaced,” said Lewandowski, who testified at a virtual New York Property Tax Commission hearing in the Bronx on Monday. “I know there are other people citywide, who’ve been in their communities for generations, who if you tax them at a full market rate, they’re out.”

Like many other New ...