NYS already has tax breaks for one's primary residence which varies by income and a tax on the sale of homes >$1Mil. Given how entrenched those are, I have trouble imagining a way in which this new tax is incongruous with existing rules.
your point isn't necessarily wrong, but using an NYPL overview of tenements which all pre-date WWII to exemplify anything about the 1960s in NYC is disingenuous.
Moxie Marlinspike (owner of the world's greatest name) is the lead of the Signal project is often described as an anarchist (as in this wired article: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/meet-moxie-marlinspike-anarchi..., which is better than it's headline).
He is not, in truth, an anarchist. He is a crypto-zealot, most definitely eccentric, and opposed to a lot of government intrusion. In today's world, I guess that's an anarchist