One catch: parks officials said neighbors must pay for maintenance themselves.
It has been raised since then, but is still a small fraction of what his newer neighbors pay.
My family and neighbors paid for testing of our own homes in the months after 9/11.
But beyond the financial cost, they and their not-quite-so-grand neighbors pay an emotional price for this every year.
Its neighbor, a recently arrived art gallery, pays the city $1,330 for a store the same size.
We were amazed, and delighted, to learn the price our new neighbors had paid for the house across the street.
Our neighbors will pay us not to threaten them anymore.
As much, but not more, than your neighbors pay.
But her daughter was nearly run over by a car while baby-sitting neighbors were not paying attention one day.
Suddenly, residents could look up how much their neighbors were paying for property taxes.