“A recipe for disaster”: Fighting property taxes in a pandemic

It’s cumbersome. Antiquated. Arcane. And definitely not Covid-ready. The system for challenging property assessments in New York City was already behind the times when the pandemic struck. It has for decades relied on in-person hearings and staffers poring through hundreds of thousands of documents — not exactly conducive to work-from-home. For the New York City Tax Commission, which receives tens of thousands of protest filings annually from property owners, the coronavirus outbreak was also terribly

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