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Bill de Blasio may have lost some battles over his affordable-housing agenda in Albany, but the struggle has contributed to a boom in residential construction in New York City.
The threatened expiration of the developers’ property-tax break known as 421-a triggered a rush to beat the deadline, creating the city’s biggest surge in building permits in seven years, according to data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.
“You are seeing a lot of good come out of it,” said Gene Kaufman, an architect, of the rush by developers to meet the deadline.
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