NYC Property Tax Challenge to Get Hearing at State’s High Court

A coalition of homeowners, renters, and rental property owners will take its fight to reform New York City’s property tax system to the state’s highest court, which granted it leave to appeal on Thursday.

“We filed this suit because the political will to fix the property tax system cannot overcome years of inertia in the State Legislature or City Council, and court action is the only viable path to reform,” said Martha Stark of Tax Equity Now New York (TENNY), which filed suit four years ago to force the city to revamp property taxes to ease burdens on low-income and ...