You're kidding, right? Airbnb, as a platform, is knowingly facilitating illegal activity. At least as far as the NYC market is concerned, that is what it is *designed* to do.
Look, unlike most of the yahoos opposing this because "muh free market" I actually own an apartment in NYC, and I'm deeply opposed to the way airbnb is fucking up our housing market. Short-term rentals are decreasing hotel revenues (and thus taxes that fund the services I use), driving up ownership costs (who do you think pays for the wear-and-tear of all those fuckwit tourists to my building?). We, the actual residents of this city, voted for this measure. So fuck outta here.