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Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 279th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1915, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “No City Borrowing on Huge Personal Tax — Prendergast.” The article focused on the then-controller announcing an increased personal property tax.
“Controller Prendergast today dealt what may be a death blow to the hopes of Mayor Mitchel and the Tax Department to utilize a tremendously increased personal property valuation for taxation purposes,” the Eagle reported. “On the witness stand before the Mills Legislative Committee on Taxation today, in the Woolworth Building, the controller flatly stated that he would not borrow a cent of money for the city on the strength of an inflated personal tax.”
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.