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Mayor Mamdani extended the deadline to apply for a pied-à-terre tax exemption to Sept. 18, a month later than planned, after the city's confused rollout sent 17,000 warning letters to homeowners [5].
A 12-year-old Bronx boy, Jacob Freytes, shot dead riding his bike to a bodega, was buried Saturday as his mother pushes Albany for mandatory life sentences in reckless child killings [13].
ACLU chapters filed 54 federal tort claims against ICE agents this week, four from New Yorkers who say they were racially profiled, wrongly detained, or separated from their kids [3].
A three-tower, 980-unit waterfront complex called The Orion, two-thirds of it permanently affordable, was unveiled for Hunters Point South in Long Island City [19].
Vincent Pastore, the Bronx-born "Sopranos" actor who played mob informant Big Pussy, died at 80 at his City Island home, mourned from Arthur Avenue to his old Little Italy haunts [40].
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The pied-à-terre tax deadline extensionPhoto: gothamist

The pied-à-terre tax deadline extension

A tax pitched at absentee millionaires is scaring longtime homeowners, and City Hall just bought itself a month to explain the difference.

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Jacob Freytes's funeral and his mother's push for a new lawPhoto: abc7ny

Jacob Freytes's funeral and his mother's push for a new law

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 The ACLU's 54 claims against ICE, four of them in New YorkPhoto: gothamist

The ACLU's 54 claims against ICE, four of them in New York

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Story: the day’s big ones, in their own words and numbers

The pied-à-terre tax deadline extension

A tax pitched at absentee millionaires is scaring longtime homeowners, and City Hall just bought itself a month to explain the difference.

The pied-à-terre tax deadline extension
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Mayor Mamdani gave homeowners until Sept. 18, a month later than the original Aug. 21 deadline, to apply for an exemption from the city's new tax on non-primary homes worth $5 million or more [1][4][5]. The city sent 17,000 letters warning owners they "may" owe the surcharge, more than the 10,000-13,000 non-primary residences officials had first estimated would be hit [1]. Confusion deepened after the Department of Finance posted a database of more than 900,000 properties that "may" be subject to the tax [4].

“This is really the least this administration can do to begin to fix this train wreck.”
David Carr, Council Minority Leader, R-Staten Island · [1]
“We are announcing the extension of the exemption application deadline to ensure that New Yorkers who received the 'You may be subject to ...' letters have the time and information they need.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani · [4]
By the numbers
  • 17,000letters sent to property owners warning they may owe the tax, versus the 10,000-13,000 non-primary homes officials first projected [1]
  • more than 900,000properties listed in the Department of Finance's database as potentially subject to the surcharge [4]
  • $500 millionin annual revenue the tax is projected to raise for the city budget [1]
The thread
  1. 2019Albany shelved an earlier pied-à-terre tax push after developer lobbying, opting instead for a mansion tax surcharge on homes over $2 million (City & State)
  2. TodayMamdani extends the exemption deadline to Sept. 18 after the rollout drew backlash from longtime residents who got the warning letters [1][4][5]
WatchOwners face the new Sept. 18 exemption deadline, then a 30-day appeal window before the surcharge locks in for two tax years [4].
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Jacob Freytes's funeral and his mother's push for a new law

A 12-year-old rode his bike out to buy a ball. A week later, his father, a retired NYPD sergeant, buried him.

Jacob Freytes's funeral and his mother's push for a new law
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Jacob Freytes, 12, was laid to rest Saturday at a funeral home in Parkchester, a week after he was shot riding his bike to a Mount Eden bodega [11][13]. Police say William Ferrer, 45, opened fire after a fight broke out on the street; Freytes was hit in the chest and ran into the bodega for help before he died [13]. Ferrer is charged with murder and attempted murder and has pleaded not guilty [11]. Mayor Mamdani attended both Friday's vigil and Saturday's funeral [11][13].

“This has been a murder that has shaken this entire neighborhood borough and city.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani · [11]
“If someone internally kills a minor, they get life. No, I want reckless (killings) too.”
Migdalia Martinez, Jacob's mother · [11]
The thread
  1. 2010New York's Child Protection Act created aggravated murder of a child as a class A-I felony carrying life without parole, but only for intentional killings (NY Senate)
  2. TodayMartinez calls on Mamdani to help push a law extending that life sentence to reckless killings of children after Jacob's death [11]
WatchWhether any lawmaker introduces a bill extending mandatory life sentences to reckless child killings; none has been filed yet [11].
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The ACLU's 54 claims against ICE, four of them in New York

New Yorkers hurt by masked agents are trying the one tool a federal crackdown can't wave away: the bill.

The ACLU's 54 claims against ICE, four of them in New York
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ACLU chapters in 17 states plus New York and New Jersey filed 54 federal tort claims this week alleging injuries by ICE agents, Gothamist reports, including four in New York on behalf of people who say they were racially profiled, unlawfully arrested, and separated from their children [3]. Twenty-nine of the 54 claimants nationwide are U.S. citizens, a dozen of whom say they were detained after being racially profiled, a tactic the Supreme Court effectively allowed in an emergency ruling last year [3]. DHS called the claims part of an ACLU campaign siding with "criminal illegal aliens" [3].

“As the Trump administration continues to enable ICE agents to brutalize communities, it's important we use every tool available to seek justice.”
Jeanne LoCiero, legal director, ACLU of New Jersey · [3]
“When will the ACLU acknowledge the chaos and cruelty of anti-ICE agitators, criminal illegal aliens, and recognize the victims of illegal alien crime?”
Lauren Bis, DHS Assistant Secretary · [3]
By the numbers
  • 54federal tort claims filed this week across 17 states plus New York and New Jersey [3]
  • 29of the claimants are U.S. citizens, including a dozen alleging unlawful detention after racial profiling [3]
  • $500,000sought by a New Jersey nurse who says agents threw her to the ground outside the Delaney Hall detention center [3]
The thread
  1. 2023The ACLU's Ms. L v. ICE family-separation suit produced a court-approved settlement covering an estimated 4,500 to 5,000 children and parents, cementing the Federal Tort Claims Act as the main route to money damages against immigration agents (ACLU)
  2. TodayThe ACLU files 54 new claims, four from New Yorkers, alleging similar harms under the current enforcement surge [3]
WatchThe claims go to federal judges, not juries, and the law bars punitive damages; DHS has not responded to the specific New York or New Jersey allegations [3].
FromGothamist

Around the Boroughs

  • Queens (Long Island City): A 36-year-old man was found stabbed to death inside the Hayden, a 51-story luxury rental at Court Square where two-bedrooms list near $6,000 a month; no arrests yet [12].
  • Brooklyn (Bay Ridge): NYPD and Mexican authorities are hunting Misal Cruz across the border for the June slashing death of bartender Maria Santos Flores, found with her throat cut on 85th Street [9].
  • The Bronx (Edenwald): Stephen Charles, 42, was charged with more than 30 counts for sexually abusing six children over eight years, several of whom he met at homeless shelters [16].
  • Brooklyn (Borough Park): Police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old girl found unconscious at a 48th Street address that also houses a day care [14].
  • Manhattan (Soho): The Landmarks Preservation Commission reviews a 20-story, 88-unit supportive-housing tower for young adults aging out of foster care at 257 Canal Street on Aug. 4 [20].
  • Brooklyn (Boerum Hill): Permits were filed for a 16-story, 99-unit building at 546 Pacific Street, a block from the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway hub [21].
  • Brooklyn (Flatbush): A housing lottery opened for three studios at 729 Rogers Avenue renting from $2,022 a month, open to households earning up to $108,560 [22].
  • Manhattan (Citywide): Summer Streets closed more than 20 miles of road from the Brooklyn Bridge to Inwood for a second Saturday, with two more before the program moves to Brooklyn and the Bronx [26].
  • Capital Region: Costco opens its first Albany-area store in Guilderland on Aug. 6, a 163,000-square-foot location expected to bring more than 150 jobs [27].
  • Long Island: OCEARCH tracked the great white shark Percy pinging 14 miles off Ocean Beach, a year to the day after it was tagged off Nova Scotia [31].
  • Citywide: The Yankees traded struggling reliever Camilo Doval to the Pirates for two prospects, their first move ahead of Monday's trade deadline [76].
  • Citywide: The Mets are bracing to trade "around six" players by the deadline, with reliever Brooks Raley and starter Freddy Peralta among those most likely to go [51].
  • Manhattan (Theater District): "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" will release a cast album through Atlantic Records this winter, one week before its Broadhurst Theatre run closes Aug. 8 [37].
  • Citywide: The Perseid meteor shower peaks Aug. 12 and 13 alongside a partial solar eclipse, the best stargazing window of the summer per the American Museum of Natural History [33].

Only in New York

Only in New York
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A nonprofit called Rosebuds Reading Collective runs book clubs and writing workshops for women locked up at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island, founded by Nora Fried after books got her through a hard stretch of her own life. Actress Julia Fox now serves as its creative director alongside co-founder Afrika Owes, who was once incarcerated at "Rosie's" herself. What started with six women trading a handful of paperbacks has grown into a program reaching more than 30 participants a session, complete with visiting authors, because somebody decided a woman waiting on her case still deserves a good book and a room to talk about it in [30].