NYS grossly favours SFHs for property taxes. For example, a $3m brownstone in Park Slope I saw had ~$700/month in property taxes. A similarly priced apartment would have more like $1500-2000/month taxes. A $100m apartment would be taxed at ~$15k/month.
The Park Slope home you had was probably newly renovated. That matters - the sale price doesn't. 700 is even a lot, relatively speaking. In any case, houses from the 19th century cost money to maintain, and sometimes, shockingly, they're populated by people who can't afford 1k a month in property tax. The property values went up high and fast - are we going to punish homeowners for that? This isn't a suburb where taxes must come primarily from property tax - there's a NYC-specific income tax, as you're probably well aware.
Then, here's something else, tax those 2,3,4-families more, rents will go up as a result; they're free-market rate apartments, not rent stabilized.
I don't know what any of this has to do with Amazon, though.
NYC has on several occasions tried to introduce congestion pricing on people driving in or into Manhattan (something I 100% support) but the efforts have failed as this is the jurisdiction of NYS and NYS has no interest in this (so far).
They introduced it - it just impacts taxis and for-hire vehicles.
The Park Slope home you had was probably newly renovated. That matters - the sale price doesn't. 700 is even a lot, relatively speaking. In any case, houses from the 19th century cost money to maintain, and sometimes, shockingly, they're populated by people who can't afford 1k a month in property tax. The property values went up high and fast - are we going to punish homeowners for that? This isn't a suburb where taxes must come primarily from property tax - there's a NYC-specific income tax, as you're probably well aware.
Then, here's something else, tax those 2,3,4-families more, rents will go up as a result; they're free-market rate apartments, not rent stabilized.
I don't know what any of this has to do with Amazon, though.
NYC has on several occasions tried to introduce congestion pricing on people driving in or into Manhattan (something I 100% support) but the efforts have failed as this is the jurisdiction of NYS and NYS has no interest in this (so far).
They introduced it - it just impacts taxis and for-hire vehicles.