Gotham Gazette: After Years of Community Organizing, Nonprofits Now Get Much-Needed Relief from Dangerous Tax Lien Sale

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Nonprofits have a lot less to fear now as a new law takes effect (photo: @596Acres)

Our interconnectedness has rarely been more pronounced than it is in this moment. The fact that we can take so many of our life-sustaining connections into the digital sphere is an unprecedented miracle. But if you’re missing New York’s places of physical gathering, where many of those connections were first forged, you’re not alone.

At its core, New York is a city of communities precisely because of its bounty of gathering places. As we reflect on the ones we miss, that we hope to return to as soon as possible, we can celebrate a new law that goes into effect today – Friday, March 27 – that will protect some of them…

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