"I found this law problematic because it was written to make enforcement easy, not to address actual issues with serial short-term renting." Those two things a

"I found this law problematic because it was written to make enforcement easy, not to address actual issues with serial short-term renting." Those two things are very much related. It's all well and good to propose an exquisitely tailored law that only forbids exactly what is socially negative and nothing else, but if it is totally unenforceable as a practical matter then what good is it? "At least with Airbnb, there was a rating system and an escalation/authentication path." That's great for AirBnB's customers -- both guests and owners (or leasors), but did nothing at all for the rest of us living in NYC. All other things being equal, I'd be happy with lower hotel prices in NYC. That's good for tourism, which is good for NYC. But I sure as heck don't want to trade off not being able to rent an apartment and be assured that the apartment next door isn't an unregistered hotel room used by a rotating cast of drunk tourists every weekend. If those are my choices, I'm voting for higher hotel prices every time.