When work is done, sometime after the Olsens start classes in September, the apartment will also have two guest bedrooms, a screening room, kitchen, breakfast nook, dining room, living room, family room, laundry room and another two and a half bathrooms, according to a floor plan of the apartment submitted by the developer to the state attorney general's office, which regulates condominiums.
Last year, conversion plans for eight buildings, with a total of 541 apartments, were submitted to the state, according to the Real Estate Board of New York, which cited statistics from the attorney general's office.
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When Mr. Loeser and his wife bought an apartment, the mayor submitted a personal reference to the co-op board.
One expansive installation, a re-creation of a trash-strewn housing committee meeting room with typewritten grievances submitted by apartment residents tacked up on the walls, gives a vivid sense of that grim reality.
Applications for the co-op apartments must first be submitted to the municipality, and income eligibility is reviewed.
Yang Weidong, a politically active filmmaker, said a phalanx of 13 cameras were installed in and around his apartment building last year after he submitted an interview request to President Hu Jintao, drawing the ire of domestic security agents.
In another case, 24 payments, totaling $109,708, were sent to a single apartment, where eight people each submitted requests for aid eight times, each time using their own Social Security numbers.
The federal official overseeing the controversial cleanup and environmental testing of apartments near ground zero has submitted her resignation.
MANHATTAN: E.P.A. OFFICIAL TO QUIT The federal official overseeing the controversial cleanup and environmental testing of apartments near ground zero has submitted her resignation.
On cross-examination by Mr. Schwartz, Detective Bello said that outside a few areas that appeared in the photographs submitted by prosecutors, the apartment was like a normal home.
