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New York City: property tax, public grocery stores, and the numbers behind the headlines.
The New Math on NYC's Public Grocery Stores
Mayor Mamdani's stores will sell a core basket 30% below market, and nobody has priced that promise. This update does: about $167M over ten years, reaching roughly 12,000 households when the same money could reach six to fifteen times as many.
2026-08
NYC Property Tax: Who Pays, Who Doesn't
An interactive parcel-level map of New York City's effective property-tax rates — plus the long answer to why two identical brownstones across the street from each other can pay wildly different bills.
2026-04
The Math on NYC's Public Grocery Plan
A per-store 10-year P&L for Mayor Mamdani's five city-owned grocery stores, a check on what nutrition a $40k income buys you in the Bronx, and a ranked comparison to what the same $70M would buy if the goal were to feed more people.
2026-04
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