JUNE
5, 2005 --
Two weeks ago, Francis Marrone, writing in The New York Sun reviewed a book about
New York City with Rudolph W. Giuliani as Mayor.
There is no indication from
the
review that
the book, by Fred Siegel, mentions the Dayton Seaside property tax matter. Mr.
Marrone, at the end of his review commented that Mayor Giuliani showed "that
a man of courage, determination, and great intelligence can change the
system, and hoiw hard it is for such a man not to be defeated by it." (Ah,
but perhaps to beat others down by his system?)
This writer, directly affected by the Dayton Seaside taxes -- on three apartment
buildings in Queens, New York -- challenges The New York Sun to investigate curious
failure of the City of New York to settle the Dayton Seaside property taxes for
17 years, how it eventually put out artifical property tax claims for the purpose
of
forcing the removal of property owners. (The tax issue goes back to the Koch
administration,
in the mid-1980's.)
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And then quickly
settled the taxes once the previous owners were removed by means
of bankruptcy caused by those
artificial tax claims.
LPR understands that City Hall could not have succeeded in its apparent aim to
get new owners at Dayton Seaside without cooperation from the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD is, of course a federal department.
Perhaps the most bizarre letter this writer received concerning Dayton Seaside
was one from then U.S. Senator Al D'Amato who wrote in part, February 9, 1998: "...as
a federal legislator, I am unable to take direct action on this matter [Dayton
Seaside] since it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government."
From LPR's perspective: at Dayton Seaside, Mr. Giuliani did not change the system
at all -- he just maintained government of, by and for insiders -- with not-a-little
bullying as well.
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