"They want the tenants out," said the lawyer, Janet Ray Kalson, referring to Mr. Chetrit.
It makes no sense to push paying tenants out to have vacant storefronts.
"If the landlord keeps kicking the Chinese tenants out," she said, "it's not going to be Chinatown anymore".
"Get all the tenants out, then you can bring your building up to code and sell for top dollar".
"The existing system has not insisted that both tenants and landlords take responsibility for working out their differences because the Human Resources Administration, in the form of the taxpayer, has been bailing the tenants out," Mr. Turner said.
I want to know about renovations he's done; they could indicate that his pattern is to get the tenants out and then renovate the apartments in the hope of getting those units out of rent stabilization".
Urban tales abound of landlords letting rent-controlled apartments age and decay to drive tenants out, with tenants retaliating with lawsuits and perseverance.
It needed her and the other tenants out.
"There are plenty of good tenants out there".
Caring for animals forces tenants out of their pajamas and out of the building, she said.
In October, citing fire hazards, the Buildings Department ordered tenants out of the building.
