As the Albany region's bike share program enters its third year, real estate developers are trying to leverage CDPHP Cycle's growing success.
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The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy has granted $98,000 to 36 artists and non-profits around Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer counties.
The state is now considering a tax increase on real estate transactions instead, Politico reported, citing five sources close to the negotiations.One source said the pied-a-terre proposal isn’t dead yet but is “headed there.” Its not immediately clear what a change in real estate taxes would look like.Gov.
Andrew Cuomo continued to push for the pied-à-terre tax in a radio interview on Monday morning, but the tide appeared to have turned by Monday afternoon.Another source told Politico that the tax proved to be too “onerous,” and would further complicate New York Citys already convoluted property tax system.
A recurring topic in city and state politics, the idea of a pied-à-terre tax was put forward again this month as a way to fund the MTA, as it became clear that a plan to legalize and tax marijuana would not come together in time. Albany lawmakers already agreed to a congestion pricing plan on Monday, with revenues earmarked for MTA repairsThe pied-a-terre proposal was poorly received in the real estate world, with the Real Estate Board of New Yorks John Banks saying it would throw a huge wet blanket over the entire industry.
The New York real-estate industry is launching a frontal assault against a plan in Albany to impose a stiff annual tax on wealthy owners of part-time …
Good government has never found a home in Albany because so many of the people who've run New York's state government have liked things just …
ALBANY — After a packed year of arts programs and events in 2018, Albany Area Arts Council Executive Director Nicole Williams said she sees …
ALBANY — Henry Lee Gorham, an artist from McRae, uses the fictional town of Small Grove to tell the story of the southern United States and the …