Yeah, boy! Newburgh NY faces 301% tax increase (2010 - 2013)

[mdmc]

Damn! I thought that the 70% increase this year was the worst of it! Housing value is tanking! Keep this up and I may be able to afford to buy a house (can't pay those taxes though!).
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101231/NEWS/12310362/-1/NEWS
The city's projections show assessed values could drop 40 percent from 2008-2012. That's unusual even during a recession, said Bob McEvoy, a professor of public administration and policy at SUNY Albany. Assessed values in most municipalities stagnate in bad times or grow more slowly, McEvoy said. Places such as Newburgh that have lots of abandoned buildings are the exception. That will make it extremely difficult for Newburgh to recover on its own, McEvoy said.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Isn't Newburgh the site that NY and NJ designated as a future major airport?

Replacing the military site?

[Historic NY]

3. Yeah back in Rocky's time....Port Authority is running the airport now...

still not up to snuff & probably never will be its too expensive.

[kestrel91316]

4. Stewart AFB became Stewart International Airport years ago. AFAIK

it is for cargo and animal transport, they have animal quarantine facilities there and such. It's not a passenger airport. I think this allows them to dedicate JFK and LaGuardia to just passenger transport.

[Historic NY]

13. Yes Stewart is passenger........your 25 yrs late its been passenger since the 80's. .

http://www.panynj.gov/airports/stewart.html

Its in my town....cargo went out a long time ago when Flying Tigers went belly up. UPS flies in to its hub. The animal center is still there.....the place is much different.

[rug]

2. Newburgh is at a beautiful location.

Its problems are entirely based on profit-driven policies.

Happy New Year, mdmc. Peace and low stress in the new year.

[kestrel91316]

5. Newburgh is potentially a beautiful town, and it is in a beautiful area.

I lived nearby in the 60's. Sad that they can't attract good jobs and real estate rehab money, because it's ripe for yuppification.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Newburgh is also an historic town

It was the site of Washington's headquarters in 1783

[kestrel91316]

10. We used to live less than a mile from his New Windsor cantonment.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. That would have been so neat

I have always been fascinated with that period of American history.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Important post and I suspect that you're situation will be duplicated in countless towns and cities

in the USA. There is no free lunch...with the new federal tax policies in place where everyone gets a 'tax cut', now the bottom 98% will simply see that tax burden shifted to state and local governments. The only difference is the bottom 98% will end up paying more taxes as a % of their income than we did when we had a strong progressive system of federal taxation in place.

[DCKit]

7. +1

"Fiscally Responsible" doesn't really seem to apply to any politician.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Its happening to me

When I retired it was customary for my union to negotiate a small increase in our pension check every year to offset such things as rising property taxes. If I though they were going to take that away I wouldn't have retired.

Well, we no longer get those yearly increases so there is no room for rising property taxes around here any more. Tapped out.

I think some others are going to need to get used to no longer receiving their yearly increase too.

Don

[shanti]

8. i lived there in the mid-60's

dad was air force at stewart. lots of memories...