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For Immediate Release

New York City Council
January 13, 2008

Council Releases
Recommendations to
Immediately Improve
Transportation for
Disabled New Yorkers

City Hall –
Investigations
Committee Chair Eric
Gioia, Transportation
Committee Chair John
C. Liu, Council
Members and disability
advocates today
released the findings of
a City Council
investigation titled “On
the Right Track: A
Roadmap to Improving
Transportation for New
York City’s Disabled
Population.” The
investigation examines
the problems New
Yorkers with disabilities
face in using the city’s
transportation system,
and issues a set of low
cost, easy to implement
recommendations for
improving transportation
safety and access.

In 2006, 1.5 billion
people rode the New
York City subway
system and 741 million
took a bus. Operating
24 hours a day with the
largest subway fleet in
NYS Heros & Zeros
The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:

1  Section 1. Section 1561 of the tax law, as added by chapter 596 of the
2  laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3    § 1561. Imposition of tax. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law
4  to the contrary, any designated community, acting through its  governing
5  body,  is  hereby authorized and empowered to adopt a local law imposing
6  in such designated community a tax on each conveyance of  real  property
7  or  interest  therein  where  the  consideration  exceeds  five  hundred
8  dollars, at a rate of up to two percent of the  consideration  for  such
9  conveyance; any such local law shall fix the rate of such tax.  more
Editorial

Will a 2% tax  to convey real
property help stabilize the
housing market by discouraging
flipping?

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the world and the
largest bus fleet
in North America,
New York City’s
public
transportation
system serves as
a social and
occupational
lifeline for
millions of
people. Yet for the
more than one
million New
Yorkers with
disabilities, this
city’s network of
public
transportation
services can be
woefully
inadequate. more