But he also assailed government officials for sloth and lack of resourcefulness, saying they missed the chance to take specific relief measures like renting blocks of cheap hotel rooms for temporarily stranded Beijingers.
For example, General Electric was a large client, sending representatives from Japan and Brazil to the area and renting blocks of rooms for a month at a time.
The last several years have been difficult for those seeking to rent large blocks of office space in a single building in Manhattan.
The bombings of low rent apartment blocks in three Russian cities served as a casus belli, even though most Russians believed their own security services likely perpetrated the outrages.
Brokers say such a strong tilt toward small offices is unusual in New York, where the financial industry, in particular, has traditionally rented large blocks of space.
Mr. Gavriani said that some apartment-hunters start their search in Hell's Kitchen, as the area north of 42nd Street is called, but end up renting a block or two south of 42nd Street, where prices are lower.
Mr. Joseph said that he had in fact rented a block of apartments to the WooGo Group, which sublets apartments around the world, and that it had rented them out as hotel rooms.
He told one conference audience about a startup in Beijing that was able to ship its first product in just six months, by renting a block of hotel rooms and requiring all employees to live there, taking breaks only to eat, sleep, and exercise.
In January 2011, they regrouped and rented a block of rooms at the Mercer Hotel in New York City and invited a select group of producers and recording artists.
Using forced labour (inmates from Utah state prison), German Village and its six "mietskasernen" (rent barracks) apartment blocks were completed in 44 days, in time for experiments scheduled from May 1943.
