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Since Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Airbnb report last fall, which found that 72 percent of all Airbnb transactions between 2010 and June 2014 violated state law, City Council members have been intensifying their efforts to stem the illegal use of Airbnb. Recently, Manhattan City Council members Helen Rosenthal and Ydanis Rodriguez have introduced new legislation that would ramp up penalties for people who misuse the site.