Word: condomania
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Melrose Avenue: The address of Fox's hottest twentysomethings, its famous inspiration is sadly without an equally wacky apartment complex. While you probably won't catch Heather Locklear or Grant Show during your visit, you can stop by CONDOMANIA, a large store devoted exclusively to all varieties of protection, including the different and the new in safe...
...Condomania: In early July, St. Paul's church announced that it would sell its DeWolfe St. rectory and parking lot to the H.J. Davis company for the tidy sum of $7 million. The University had hoped to purchase the property in an effort to slow overdevelopment in the Square and provide affordable housing for its affiliates, but it bid only $4 million. Although the company promised to devote a portion of its profits to a fund for low-income housing, community leaders lamented the purchase, fearing the traffic and noise the construction and new development would produce...
...Condomania: In early July, St. Paul's church announced that it would sell its DeWolfe St. rectory and parking lot to the H.J. Davis company for the tidy sum of $7 million. The University had hoped to purchase the property in an effort to slow overdevelopment in the Square and provide affordable housing for its affiliates, but it bid only $4 million. Although the company promised to devote a portion of its profits to a fund for low-income housing, community leaders lamented the purchase, fearing the traffic and noise the construction and new development would produce...
...York City standards, these and other characters in Thomas Glynn's second novel (his first, Temporary Sanity, was published in 1976) live in the Building, a decaying apartment house somewhere in ungentrified Brooklyn. It is a timely setting for this unruly comic fantasy about the failure of social engineering. Condomania has yet to reach this frontier of violence and depravity, and the Building's activities are too strong for the local evening news. In the bloodstained lobby, the old joke that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged would not be funny...
Rental housing is becoming scarcer because of demolition, abandonment and especially condomania. In Chicago 60,000 leased apartments have converted to condominiums since 1963, creating a severe housing crunch in parts of the city, notably the fashionable Near North Side. Last year 12,000 New York apartments went cooperative. The trend may accelerate as a result of Citibank's announcement last week that it was making $1 billion in loans available for houses and coops...
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