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Platforms and hosts will get some breathing room from the city in the early days after the registration rules kick in. There are enough moving parts to keep most of the fines at bay in the short term.
If you search for short-term rentals on Booking.com, Vrbo and, to a lesser extent, on Airbnb in New York City for stays after Tuesday's deadline mandating that hosts be registered, you'll still find numerous listings that seemingly flout the rules.
But New York City authorities have told Booking.com in phone conversations that the city's Office of Special Enforcement won't clamp down in the early days on platforms that are working with the city to get into compliance, Skift has learned.
At the same time, the NYC Public Advocate's Office has informed some hosts that the OSE will not be issuing fines against unregistered hosts in the early days of t