People v. 70 Realty Corp.

Canudo, M.

Number 70 Park Avenue, in tbe borough of Manhattan, is a fifteen-story brick apartment hotel containing ninety-seven one- and two-room residential units and a restaurant. Of tbe ninety-seven units, seventy-three are rented on a yearly or monthly basis and the remaining twenty-four are rented by tbe day or week.

On November 18, 1947, the Department of Housing and Buildings reclassified this structure from Class “ B ” hotel to Class “ A ” multiple dwelling. On December 31, 1947, the fire commissioner, by written notice duly served upon the defendant corporation — which owns and…