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Originally Posted by Fbone
My city's property tax bill separates the tax rate into its various components. The city sets its rate, the library sets theirs, the school theirs and finally the county. Failure to pay any of them will result in a lien placed on my home. NYC may do it differently due to its size although they must list expenditures in a report somewhere and the library portion can be calculated if it isn't already.
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Ditto in my downstate NY suburb. Here, and in the other suburbs whose libraries I belong to, only people who live, work, own property in, or attend school in that library's municipality are permitted to join the library.
In contrast, anyone who lives, works, owns property in, or attends school in New York State may join the Brooklyn Public Library, NYPL, and Queens Public Library free of charge, even if they live so far away they have to join online or by mail. I think that's because our NYS tax payments contribute to the NYS Board of Regents and NYS Education Department, which in turn fund large portion of those NYC libraries' budgets.