A comparable space in an elevator building would easily have cost them 10 to 20percentt more.
For a comparable space, prices in the Tompkins Square neighborhood tend to be about a third less than in the West Village, but that isn't the point, Ms. Pitta said.
The rent on the small space he had to settle for is four times what a comparable space would cost in his native Bordeaux, and twice as much as in Paris, he said.
She estimated that some of her neighbors, living in comparable space, average utility bills of $1,100 a month.
Further experimental and modeling efforts are required in a comparable time and space resolutions for the validation of CFD models for fluidized bed reactors.
In Westchester, rents for comparable space go for $25 to $33 a square foot, he said.
In fact, brokers said, some specialty buildings were able to command up to 20 percent more than comparable space in a general office building.
In the West End, nearer to the best shopping and entertainment, office rents are as high as $200 a foot twice the cost of comparable space in New York.
He pays the same amount for his office space in Nigeria that he used to pay for a house and a comparable office space in Ghana.
They put in operable windows, cut back the damaged limestone cornices and installed a new elevator core, preparing to ask annual rents of about $25 a square foot, much less than comparable space in Manhattan.
