The published list, and the argument about it
Published 2026-07-27.
Roughly 24,300 properties above the threshold, about 17,500 of them condominium or cooperative units, and a fight over what publishing that means.
Within days of the July 24 addendum, press analysis of the published roll put roughly 24,300 properties above the threshold, about 17,500 of them condominium or cooperative units. Those are the first counts drawn from a document the Department of Finance actually published, rather than from an estimate made before the roll existed.
What happened next?
On July 26 and 27, 2026, the published roll was scraped into name-and-address lists and circulated. The argument that followed has two sides, and a record of the law should hold both.
The criticism
Critics argued that the aggregation is itself the harm. A roll that is public in principle, item by item, becomes something different when it is compiled into a browsable list of who owns what and where, attached to names and addresses, and passed around.
The counterpoint
The reply is that the New York City assessment roll is a public record and has always been one. The Department of Finance published the addendum itself. Nothing in the lists came from a closed source, and treating public assessment data as private after the fact would be a change to the rule rather than enforcement of it.
Both positions are reported in the same coverage that produced the counts. Neither has been resolved by anything since.