NYC Property Tax System Survives Court Challenge (3)

A mid-level New York state appeals court dismissed a constitutional challenge to the New York City property tax system brought by a coalition of real estate interests and civil rights groups.

The long-awaited decision released Thursday by the state Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department, found that the coalition, Tax Equity Now New York (TENNY), had failed to show a link between racial segregation in city neighborhoods and the property tax system in its 2017 lawsuit.

TENNY didn’t “demonstrate a robust causality between the application of the property tax system, as opposed to other factors, ...