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How NYC’s Unpaid Property Tax System Has Left Some Harlem Tenants in the Lurch

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The entrance to a West Harlem Single Residence Occupancy building was boarded up after the Department of Housing Preservation and Development deemed it unsafe.

For 15 years, Mark Hall lived in a rowhouse in West Harlem’s Sugar Hill historic district. The situation wasn’t perfect. The heat and hot water were spotty, and there were leaks and frequent rat sightings. But Hall, 52, had his own room with a small kitchen and shared a bathroom with others. It was home. […]

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