New Land League activists occupied the property and prevented bailiffs from entering it.
The Union army quickly occupied the property because of its strategic location.
EDO, which has 30 locations in the United States, including two on Long Island, has occupied the property since it merged with Airborne Instruments Laboratory, another longtime contractor, in 2000.
Under the king came the aristocratic "tenants in chief," then strata of "mesne," or intermediate tenants, and finally the tenant "in demesne," who actually occupied the property.
Earlier this month after three years of planning and negotiations, a North Jersey development company closed on its purchase of the parcel and started demolishing the huddle of buildings that have occupied the property since the 1940's.
"We're here to denounce a social class who leaves such places to waste," said Diego Cañamero, the leader of the Andalusian Union of Workers, addressing the demonstrators who had occupied the property, the Palacio de Moratalla.
When the squatters first occupied the property, Frank Freeman, another of the activists, had said: "We are doing this on behalf of dispossessed, homeless people and guardians who are being exploited.
As a result, Adriana and her husband, Luigi, who were not exactly best friends by this point, each occupied the property for six months at a time -- often accompanied by their new partners -- until they could come to an agreement on the apartment's sale.
"We believe our project is fitting of a site of such prominence," he said, referring to the Garden of Allah complex, which occupied the property until 1959.
Walgreens, which had occupied the property from 1926 until 2005, announced that it would take over the Loehmann's space and operate a two-level drugstore, opening in 2012.
