NEW YORK — The road to the nation’s first tax on superluxury second homes may well have begun at 220 Central Park South, where a four-story, 24,000 square-foot penthouse, unfinished and unfurnished, recently sold for $238 million.
If the measure is passed and signed into law, New York will join cosmopolitan hubs like Paris, Singapore and Vancouver, which already charge fees on secondary or part-time homes.