Word: sublets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warp & Woof. The turnover in some Manhattan buildings is dizzying. Many families who are lucky enough to have sublet clauses in their leases exercise them within months of moving in-provided they can find a sublessee to take the rap for them. Tales of recalcitrant electronic elevators with wills of their own, narrow corridors ("Every night when I come home it looks more like a cell block"), warping floors, woofing plumbing and cracking plaster have become standard cocktail lore...
...Yorkers, hunting for an apartment, a TV director named Michael Gargiulo was approached by a young man with the furtive but intense air of a dirty-postcard salesman. "You looking for an apartment?" he muttered hopefully. Gargiulo acknowledged that he was, and the young man promptly offered to sublet his own one-bedroom diggings at a bargain rental. But the apartment was too small for Gargiulo, and he strolled on-only to run into two more apartment dwellers with subletting bargains to offer. By coincidence-or maybe not by coincidence-all three of the eager would-be subletters were tenants...