Last time, shoppers at By Choice parked around the neighborhood, or in a city-owned lot across the street.

Parking is available at North Chicago in a city-owned lot.

With time running out, Mayor Koch has offered a suitable city-owned lot on 12th Avenue.

Partnership homes can be built on any vacant city-owned lot.

Yet for the past year this small vacant city-owned lot on the Rockaway peninsula has been a battleground.

There is a drug-infested, city-owned building a block away and a vacant, rubble-strewn lot across the street.

For the last five years, Mr. Wexler has been struggling to buy a vacant city-owned lot to expand his business.

But yesterday afternoon, the city-owned lot was less than half full.

The property essentially becomes a city-owned lot, which the homeowners could then seek to buy from the city.

In 2001, the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation paid more than $30,000 to buy the house and move it to a city-owned lot.