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Petitioners are husband and wife, and petitioner resided in
New York, New York, at the time the petition was filed.
Petitioners were born in Greece, and they have two daughters,
Maria Stotis (Maria) and Evanthia Stotis (Evanthia).
Petitioner moved to the United States in 1975. Since 1975,
petitioner has operated a street vending cart and has sold
pretzels and sodas at various locations in New York City.
From 1987 through November 1989, petitioner resided in
adjoining rooms 103 and 141 (rooms 103 and 141) at 321 West 33d
Street, New York, New York (the apartment building).
From 1987 through 1989, Maria and Evanthia lived with Mrs.
Stotis in Greece. Mrs. Stotis occasionally visited petitioner in
New York, but petitioner was the only individual with a property
interest in rooms 103 and 141.
Palm View Corp. (Palm View) served as landlord to the
tenants in the apartment building. Seawall Associates (Seawall)
owned the apartment building. Seawall wanted to relocate the
tenants and then raze the structure to make room for an office
building. In 1989, approximately six to ten of the apartment
building units were occupied, and petitioner occupied two of
those units.
Seawall approached petitioner with the hope that it could
convince him to vacate rooms 103 and 141. Rather than negotiate
directly with Seawall, petitioner hired Dionysis Spyropoulos
(Spyropoulos), an attorney, to negotiate with Seawall.
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