The legislation, passed Monday by the Council, would require owners of buildings dating before 1960 to identify apartments with young children and to use specially trained workers to remove the lead paint.
The police said they had identified an apartment rented by the women's accomplices, where they say they believe the explosives were assembled.
While New York City has clearly served as an aging-in-place testing ground, a recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation identified 5,000 apartment houses across the country that could be considered NORC's.
In a town with few sources of wealth, the surveillance teams have identified warehouses, apartment buildings and a nightclub as Bach properties and videoed the Bachs and their men driving a fleet of new high-end vehicles, some of which have had their licence plates changed.
The lawsuit identified the apartment's owner as "Vitaly Malkin, a Russian senator who is domiciled in Russia and generally is not present in New York". Less than two weeks later, a new complaint was filed with a change: It now said the apartment was owned by a trust whose beneficiaries included Mr. Malkin's son, Leonid, and that Mr. Malkin was neither a trustee nor a beneficiary of the trust.
The few knick-knacks that identified the apartment's real owner a friend of the creative director have been removed.
The DEA had used a stingray to identify Lambis' apartment as the most likely location of a cell phone identified during a drug-trafficking probe.
But Gallinot said that detectives identified his apartment as a place where couriers would pick up rock cocaine for delivery to customers who placed their orders by telephone.
A person at the Diazes' apartment identifying himself as Andrew Diaz's brother said that the boy was staying with an uncle named Raymond Diaz who lives in Harlem.
For Mr. Friedlander, his surroundings are an exercise in mastering a sort of Zen, "and not identifying with my apartment," he explained, "being able to find peaceful existence no matter what kind of living situation".
