In court papers, the tenants estimated that the owner owed current and former tenants more than $200 million in rent rebates.
The application pegs the average rent at $600, when by the tenants' estimate the apartments can fetch several times that amount in their upscale neighborhood opposite Rockefeller University.
Louise Seeley, executive director of the City-Wide Task Force ononprofit coalitionnonprofithatassists tenantssists testimatedsthatted that 90percentto95percentcent of tenants taken to housing court have no lawyers, but 85percentto90percentcent of landlords have legal representation.
George Cominskie, the head of the tenants' organization, estimates that 40 percent to 50 percent of the original tenants still live at Westbeth.
Project, a public-interest law firm specializing in tenants' rights, estimated there might be as many as 2,000 tenants living in the brownstones.
If the building is sold without CBS as a tenant, Ms. Stacom estimates, it could garner as much as $425 per square foot, or about $369 million.
Of the displaced World Trade Center tenants, an estimated 13% relocated to New Jersey, and another 6% relocated to upstate New York or left the state entirely.
The landlords would not have to roll back rents or repay what tenant advocates estimate is $200 million in rent overcharges.
A log tenant house estimated to have been built during the mid-18th-century during the ownership of the Jones family is extant, and remains part of the current "Bogota" estate, as of 2008.
Larry Gross, the executive director of the Coalition for Economic Survival, a tenants' rights organization, estimates that at least 1,000 units of low-income housing have been lost to development over the last five years.
That amount was corrected to reflect the value of tenant improvements and estimates of depreciation on the destroyed properties.
