The coalition of legislators and tenant activists had sought the opinion in the hope that, by eliminating the tax benefits, they could discourage landlords from warehousing.

In New York City, the tenant activists who have pressed for open books have a more far-reaching agenda.

Mr. Macklowe, the developer whom tenant activists love to hate, is back.

Many tenant activists and urban planners criticized him for that.

He began his political career as a tenant activist after moving to Fort Lee a few years after the war.

Normally, that volume of litigation forces owners to walk away from their buildings - which seems to be precisely what the tenant activists want.

Mazur moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey after completing his military service, where he became a tenant activist.

According to Mr. Curtis, a tenant activist, the trouble began when his mother died in 1992.

What the Governor meant by "extremists," according to his translator, communications director Zenia Mucha, was the tenant activists.

Mary Sweeting, a tenant activist, has been of particular service to her fellow residents of northern Harlem.