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Brewer details problems with the 900,000-property published list

New York City Council · Aug 18, 2026 · starts 0:01:59 · 41 sec

Brewer explains that the published list was so overbroad it included her own name despite her living in the same home since 1994. She questions why DOF published names and addresses when it knew most properties were not pied-à-terres.

Gale A. Brewer

with the small caveat that the properties on the list may be subject to the charge.

Gale A. Brewer

The list published by the Department of Finance was so overbroad that it even included my name, and I don't mind my name and my home address, but I've been in that damn home for 365 days a year since 1994.

Gale A. Brewer

I don't leave the city and I don't have a second home.

Gale A. Brewer

We want to know today how all of those names ended up on the list and why the Department of Finance published a list of property owners when admittedly

Gale A. Brewer

they knew that the vast majority of the properties on the list were not in fact used as a pied-à-terre.