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  • In Brownstones, Taxes Suddenly Rise

    02/21/2005 9:03:47 PM PST · by TBP · 103 replies · 2,147+ views
    The New York Times ^ | February 20, 2005 | JOSH BARBANEL
    AFTER struggling to fix up a brownstone in Harlem for the last 16 months, Meyghan Hill, a model and actress, and her husband, Daniel Scarola, a ballroom dancing instructor, are thinking about giving up and moving out. But what may drive them away is not the neighborhood, which they have come to love, nor their four-family house, where they have painstakingly stripped a century of varnish and paint from doors and balusters, but the shock of a tax notice they received last month from the New York City Department of Finance. The notice indicated that the taxes on their 19-foot-wide...