The village housing authority manages rent-subsidized complexes, including the 164-unit Mill Court, for low-income families, and 50 units for people 62 and older on Merrick Road.
Built as a rent-stabilized complex in the 1960s, the buildings went co-op in 1987.
Woolworths, a South African clothing and food retailer, closed its three shops in Nigeria after less than two years, citing high rents and complex supply-chains as reasons.
According to people in the real-estate industry in Stamford, W&M Properties, which specializes in reinvigorating existing office buildings to improve their profitability, has contracted to buy First Stamford Place, a fully rented 800,000-square-foot complex walkingwalking distance of the railroad station.
The western portion of the neighborhood, settled early last century by East European Jews, has one of the oldest co-ops in the city, a rent-stabilized complex now called the "Allerton Co-ops".
The battling began in 1985, when Peter S. Kalikow, who had recently bought the rent-regulated complex, announced plans to empty and raze all the buildings and replace them with four luxury towers whose rents would far exceed the $300 average in most of the old buildings.
The mandate for Somalia's UN-backed transitional federal government expires in August after eight years of squabbling and rent-seeking.A complex plan for replacing the government calls for a council of elders to choose a constituent assembly which would in turn ratify an interim constitution and appoint a leaner parliament with half as many members.
When police fatally shot a Taiwanese national accused of dealing drugs from a low-rent apartment complex in Central Jakarta earlier this week, it was just the latest death in Indonesia's increasingly brutal war on drugs.
Known as the jefe de jefes, the patron de patrones, Beltran Leyva went down in a blaze of gunfire and grenade explosions during a military raid on a high-rent apartment complex in the capital city of Morelos, Mexico, about 45 minutes from Mexico City.
About 260 tenants are still renting at the complexes, which are being converted building by building.
