{"id":308201,"date":"2026-07-29T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:07:23","slug":"some-city-homeowners-blast-pied-a-terre-tax-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308201\/","title":{"rendered":"Some city homeowners blast pied-\u00e0-terre tax rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some longtime city residents are crying foul after getting letters from Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration<\/a> saying they need to prove that New York City is their primary residence \u2014 or they\u2019ll face a new property tax that\u2019s only supposed to be targeting wealthy out-of-towners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sloppiness is probably going to end up hurting people the most,\u201d Marvin Ciporen, a retired teacher and nonprofit consultant, told NY1.<\/p>\n

He has lived in his four-story, single-family home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, since 1973.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do we actually live here, but my daughter and my grandsons live upstairs in the house. But again, there\u2019s by no stretch of the imagination can this be considered a second home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But last week, Ciporen got a letter from Mamdani\u2019s Department of Finance saying, prove it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Finance could have easily verified that through our tax records, which always are from this address and that always indicate we\u2019re here 12 months a year,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The city wrote in a letter that his home \u201cmay be subject to the new surcharge\u201d or pied-\u00e0-terre tax. And because the property\u2019s market value is over $5.2 million, he\u2019d have to pay a $41,000 tax increase.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city should have done that kind of work of finding out what might be a second home, rather than putting the burden on taxpayers. It\u2019s the kind of thing that is upsetting and time consuming, but also undermines people\u2019s confidence in government. Why burden me with doing something that in the 21st century you could do with a few clicks before you send out letters?\u201d Ciporen told NY1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in the pied-\u00e0-terre tax. I\u2019m strongly concerned about the gross [inequalities] in wealth and income that we have in the city. But you don\u2019t go about that by harassing middle-class homeowners needlessly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Now, Ciporen has until Aug. 21 to apply for an exemption<\/a> from the city.<\/p>\n

So, why is it up to Ciporen?<\/p>\n

The city told NY1 to ask state legislators and Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs per state law, a property roll was released for public inspection. From this list, DOF will identify properties that may be subject to the new non-primary residence property surcharge,\u201d Mamdani spokeswoman Monica Klein said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone\u2019s on a list and they want to challenge it, that is their right so, I\u2019m happy to look at whether or not it requires any change in the law but right now I\u2019m not seeing that,\u201d Hochul said Tuesday during a separate press conference in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Hochul pitched the tax to help the mayor close his multi-billion dollar city budget, then, approving it as part of the state\u2019s $277 billion spending plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people who have no idea that this applies to them, so elevating the notification probably sounds like the way to make sure that people know,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

While the city annually posts property tax rolls, a new list published has 100s of 1,000s of names and addresses that could qualify.<\/p>\n

Single- to three-family homes, co-ops, condos and mixed-use properties like commercial spaces that aren\u2019t solely rental properties.<\/p>\n

Some say it\u2019s still sloppy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really ridiculous because there\u2019s no home in this condo that meets the million-dollar threshold, let alone the $5 million threshold,\u201d Republican Councilman David Carr said, who explained that not only is his condominium on that list, but many of his neighbors\u2019 properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really sure what went wrong here because it just looks like they took a list of properties of you know, one- and two-family homes across the city,\u201d he told NY1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really starts to add yet another reason for them to look elsewhere and put up that for sale sign, and that\u2019s what we should be, you know, deterring people from doing,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n

The city did not answer a question about how many owners got letters from the Department of Finance asking them to prove their residency status.<\/p>\n

The tax is estimated to generate an estimated $500 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some longtime city residents are crying foul after getting letters from Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration saying they need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,25,8889,4275,9,24,11,10,49,12,112,108,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-308201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bernadette-hogan","tag-local-politics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}