This home in Park Slope has a value of $2.5 million, but the owners pay $6,209 in property taxes.
http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/higher-income-areas-taxes-poorer-counterparts-article-1.1470735
On Autumn Ave. in working class Cypress Hills sits a modest $462,000 brick two-family home with a postage-stamp sized front yard and a warning sign, “These Premises Protected by Video Surveillance.”
The owner pays $6,919 in property taxes.
Six miles away on Fourth St. on one of upscale Park Slope’s most exclusive blocks sits an impressive $2.5 million four-story brownstone with a lush backyard garden, four bedrooms and three baths.
The owner of that lovely home pays $6,209 in property taxes — $710 less than his fellow Brooklynite, whose plot sits in one of the city’s poorest zip codes."
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