But the court documents also include a body of paperwork about the daily operations of the Dakota, including building rules and minutes from co-op board meetings, and they offer something of a treasure chest for nosy New Yorkers.
We've got a huge body of paperwork and experience that goes back at least as far as the Next Steps programme launched during the Thatcher premiership, though historians would point to discussions about arm's-length government in the Fulton and Haldane reports many years before then.
Oh, wait there's also the endless litany of traumas, frustrations, fights, arrests, dead bodies, vomiting junkies, piles of paperwork, Kafkaesque bureaucratic snags, and tons of laughing your ass off.
The repatriation of mortal remains typically covers body preparation, paperwork, associated certificates, coffin and transportation of the body or ashes of the insured from place of death to home country, and thence to an agreed funeral home.
These are the firms that arrange the funeral, store the body of the deceased, deal with paperwork and arrange the coffin and hearse.
To complete his nationality transfer, Frimpong must await Fifa clearance - which is dependent on the world governing body receiving paperwork from the Football Associations of both Ghana and England.
But it's representative of an emerging body of work that might be called "paperwork studies".
"The consulate was supposed to be there to serve us," said Juan Abreu, a bodega owner who faced mounds of paperwork and high fees when he tried to transport the body of a friend back home for burial.
It's just that its moving parts are made of human bodies, sat behind millions of desks, doing all the meaningless and unrelated bits of paperwork that together compromise the code for an enormous, stupid engine.
Because Colin's body wasn't recovered for some time, Jane couldn't get a death certificate, which meant an awful lot of paperwork couldn't be processed (no life insurance, no widowed parent's allowance, not even a funeral).
