“We can destroy the f****** city”: Landlord calls for property owners to stop paying taxes 
Humberto Lopes heard the opening bell, drew his fists and posted a profanity-laden TikTok urging landlords to stop paying their property taxes. “Let’s start not paying the property tax for this quarter coming up. We’ll fucking bankrupt this city!” he shouted in the video posted on Tuesday. “The minute we don’t pay your property tax, New York City will fucking crumble.” “You can’t foreclose on all of us,” he said. “When you destroy us, we can destroy the fucking city,” he concluded. In the video, Lopes holds up a poster released by the Mamdani administration this week announcing dates for […]
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