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When the State Legislature met earlier this year, the city had asked for a law that would have made it a misdemeanor crime for a landlord to force a tenant out of a building by harassing him or withholding services. The proposed legislation died. HOWEVER, SPEKTOR told City Council members last week that she has requested the city Corporation Counsel to come up with a way for the City Council itself to make such evictions illegal. She said that sometime in the near future legislation would be introduced in the City Council. Among the other actions taken by Spektor's office are: the establishment of SRO Law Projects to give legal advice to SRO tenants and the opening of an SRO Hot Line for tenants who are being illegally evicted or harassed Kips Bay Not all colors, style and sizes available at all stores Prices shown are manufacturer 's suggested retail prices.

Actual prices may vary (rom dealer to dealer. 'This product has no connection whatever with the American National Red Cross. FTER YEARS OF neglect, New or't ity ias 'inal'y begun trying to slow the dramatic loss of single room occupancy hotel units, which house tens of thousands of poor tenants who mostly live alone. Saying that there Is still an "ongoing need" to help the so-called SRO tenants, city Housing Commissioner Anthony Gliedman said last week, "I think we have finally begun to turn the corner on that battle." One of the projects that the city is most proud of Is the $400,000 rehabilitation taking place currently at the Hudson Hotel on Amsterdam Ave. near 141st SL THE HUDSON HOTEL project represents the first time that the city has spent money to Improve an SRO building that it owns, according to Judith Spektor, director of the mayor's Office on SRO Housing.

The 13fl unit structure, which has been an SRO for many years, was acquired by the city in 1979 because the former owner defaulted on his property tax payments. Speaking last week before a hearing held by the City Council's Committee on Housing and Buildings, Gliedman and Spektor outlined their attempts to make sure that SRO hotels like the Hudson remain an alternative for New Yorkers who prefer that kind of housing. Since 1975, the number of SRO units In the city has dropped from 100,000 to 31,000. As witnesses pointed out at last week's City Council hearing, the main reason for the reduction Is that landlords find they can make much more money by converting the SROs into co ops and high rent apartments. Gliedman and Spektor last week said that one way to stem the loss in SROs is to give landlords tax abatements when they rehabilitate their buildings for continued use as an SRO.

THE CITY COUNCIL earlier gave its approval for the abatements, and last week Gliedman and Spektor proposed some technical changes that would make it even more attractive for a landlord to spend money Improving his SRO. For instance, said Spektor, there should be written into the law a specific provision for abatements when work is done on the switchboards that many SRO hotels have. Another suggestion by the city housing officials would give SRO tenants the right to ask for a six-month lease and would require landlords to notify their tenants that they have that right. While prefacing his comments by saying that he applauds much that the city has been doing in recent months, City Councilman Edward C. Wallace (L Manhattan) criticized Gliedman for not going even further in giving SRO tenants some of the rights enjoyed now by people living in rent-stabilized units.

TENANTS LIVING IN the 900,000 rent stabilized apartments in the city can demand a one-, two- or three-year lease. Wallace also said that SRO tenants should be offered a lease right after they move into a building, rather than having to wait for a landlord to tell them that they can ask for it, as the city Is recommending- "If you force a tenant to ask for a lease," said Wallace In a sometimes testy exchange between him and Glied condo move DURABLE VINYL II TO I PER CHAIR SETS OF 4 OR MORE FABRICS EXTRA BUCKET ODD CHAIRS EXTRA Don't throw away those old and damaged chairs. Let us put them back in shape for you. WOODEN CHAIRS RESET REGLUED CHAIRS REUPHOLSTERY CORP. 150 4th Mt.

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"The Unity Committee did a good job," said Jon Haggins, a Kips Bay tenant for 14 years. "There was always a good turnout. The Important thing is that no one can be thrown out." Of course, the attorney is proud of his tenant clients. "I think this is one of the best organized tenants' groups in New York," said Dryfoos. A tenant who decides not to buy his apartments can, under the noneviction plan, remain a rent-stablized tenant for as long as he wishes.

However, there will be a time restriction on the length of time that he will be eligible to buy the apartment at the insiders' price, according to Dworman. In a newspaper advertisement on Sept. 13, prices for apartments ranged from $59,033 for a studio to a high of $245,643 for a three-bedroom, two-bath apartment. The standard insiders' price is 40 less. The tenants feel that they have won an important battle and scored a major victory.

But up at Lee National, Dworman said, "These tenants' groups are the standard operating procedure in a conversion. There was nothing unusual for us about this." I li rwiriiy J- a Foe Li uUlb.