Staten Island judge rules against Mamdani, NYC on taxing second homes

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A Staten Island judge ruled against New York City’s planned tax on second homes, finding that the city mishandled the tax’s rollout. The ruling challenges Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s initiative and was issued in a case brought by a group of plaintiffs.

A Staten Island Judge on Tuesday ruled against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) pied-à-terre tax on second homes, arguing the city mishandled the tax’s rollout. Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, wrote in his ruling that Mamdani’s Department of Finance (DOF) violated the plaintiffs’s — a group of NYC…