Thirty-seven permits belong to either the original permit holder, a family member or a descendant.
Anti-nuclear activists are seeking to halt construction, arguing that design changes have invalidated the plant's original permit.
In this case, the tables and chairs required under the original permit had been appropriated by restaurants along the plaza's western edge.
Mr. Stringer's report argues that the original permit for the arena was limited to 50 years for a very good reason.
Lightstone has applied to the New York City Planning Commission for "minor modifications" to the original permits, a request that does not require the usual extensive environmental and land-use reviews.
It also said it will require the project engineer who submitted the original permit application for a crane to produce a "written protocol" for each jump, including guidelines for how the work should be done.
Mr. Leider has suspended the project because the vacancy rate for downtown office space has risen to 28percentt from less than 5percentt in the last two years, and the original permits required him to deliver the whole project all at once.
But with work stopped at the site, the city now says that the building's design violated four local zoning regulations and that the Buildings Department should never have issued the original permits in the first place.
The original permit did not impose stringent limits, allowing Microsoft to operate its generators for a combined total of more than 6,000 hours a year for "emergency backup electrical power" or unspecified "maintenance purposes".
Millions of dollars in bribes are thought to have been paid to allow the project to go up in a hurry and to grow to more than 12 times the height granted in the original permits.
But the governor has contacted the ministry of trade and industry in Jakarta, which issued the original permits (to trade in those jeans); he was told, according to Mr Kasim, not to shut the schemes down.Since the schemes come under the authority of Jakarta, local officials would appear to have little power to stop them.
