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...Manhattan space available. After a long quiescence, builders are now providing more space all the time, both office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets?the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum Tower, for example, condominium owners will be able to descend from a $250,000 one-bedroom home...
What will come next is unclear--a legislative majority, and a larger electoral majority, continue to back rent and condominium controls. Without strict guidelines, they reason, Cambridge--a city where dozens of people vie for every available housing opening--would be overrun by young professionals. Studies predict neighborhoods would be destroyed and the working class would disappear. But the other side argues that gentrification of the city would increase the tax base and not hurt the elderly or the poor but only "student transients...
Opponents of cooperatives have charged that the plans, common in some parts of the country, are an attempt to evade laws limiting condominium conversions and that, if cooperative developments are allowed, they may force poor and elderly tenants out of the city, replacing them with upperclass residents who are able to afford the price...
...negotiations with Rebel Leader Jimmy Stevens,* a Eurasian and former bulldozer driver who declared the island independent of the New Hebrides central government of Chief Minister Walter Lini and renamed Espiritu Santo "Vemarana." The revolt embarrassed Britain and France, which have governed the New Hebrides as a joint colonial condominium for 74 years, particularly since the island chain was due to gain full independence this week...
...with the time, skill and persistence, home labor can pay off. Victor Sanchez, a Teaneck, N.J., salesman, figured that with just three hours work he could install a new shower by himself-saving $150. Chicago Architect John Dix and his wife estimate that the painting bills alone for the condominium they are refurbishing themselves would...