In 1993, the late Assembly member Howard Lasher’s bid for City Council was saved by a pair of boxer shorts he had left in his Brighton Beach apartment. This might soon be relevant to owners of co-op and condo units in New York City. Lasher was using his former bachelor pad as his voting address but had since married and moved to a house in swankier Manhattan Beach, out of the district. He was even subletting the apartment. Lasher’s primary opponent, an ambitious, backroom dealmaker appropriately named Shelly Plotnick, filed a residency challenge to knock him off the ballot. But […]

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