Rita Butler, who lives across the street, said the police should expand their cramped precinct headquarters into the Volunteers' building or that the building should be used to house the elderly.

But another school, Bruce Guadalupe, recently moved from its old, cramped headquarters into a new, $3 million building.

Sitting in the cramped headquarters at old wooden desks, sharing phones and offices, people still got work done.

A key role in changing attitudes toward television could be played by the Museum of Broadcasting, currently tucked into cramped headquarters at 1 East 53d Street in Manhattan.

Mr. Grasso has said the exchange needs a new complex to grow beyond its cramped historic headquarters on Wall Street.

In the company's cramped headquarters, only a handful of the noses - small metal arms with clusters of sensors at the end - line shelves in a tiny warehouse, awaiting shipment.

Mr. Edgar and Mr. Fithian work from the campaign's cramped headquarters in a town house near the Capitol.

The long-running theater's cramped headquarters were originally located at 1 East 104th Street, in the uptown neighborhood known as Spanish Harlem.

But someone else bought the hotel, and the society has been chafing in its cramped headquarters ever since.

Moody's, the executives said, plans to sell its cramped 55-year-old headquarters a few blocks away at 99 Church Street.