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At Manhattan House, tenants and developers are battling over a condo conversion that mil í not make much sense anvwav. BY S. JHOANNA ROBLEDO
CONDO CONVERSIONS are notoriously difficult, but the drama unfurling at Manhattan House, a 583-unit East 66th Street building that's the epitome of the giant postwar white-brick, is reaching legendary proportions. Lawyers and legislators are hollering, and "animosity would not begin to describe what's going on," says Gail Amsterdam, who has lived in the building for sixteen years.
Tenants claim owners N. Richard Kalikow and Jeremiah O'Connor, who bought it last year for $620 million in the second-most-expensive sale of a rental building ever (topped only by the Stuyvesant Town deal), are muscling elderly rent-stabilized and market-rate tenants...