NYC judge orders fresh notices for pieds-à-terre tax, city appeals ruling

A Staten Island judge on Tuesday ordered New York City officials to mail new notices to homeowners who have been identified as liable for a new tax on secondary homes. The city immediately appealed the ruling, triggering a stay that paused what would have effectively required the rollout of the surcharge on high-priced pieds-à-terre to restart."With a stay, we will continue implementing the surcharge fairly, efficiently and in full compliance with the law, as we have since day one," Matt Rauschenbach, a spokesman for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, said in a statement, as cited by Reuters.The ruling, which came in favour of a group of homeowners who had sued the city, was issued a week before the October 6 deadline for homeowners notified that they owed the tax to prove that their properties should not be subject to the measure, a key initiative of Mamdani’s administration.In his ruling, Wayne Ozzi, a…