Accounts in The Times described five-room apartments, starting at $22,000, with maintenance a little over $300 per month.
The five-room apartment, on the fourth floor, was large and had been well renovated.
What the inspectors for the agency must have been most struck by was the children's cluttered living arrangement in the five-room apartment.
Original buyers in 1971 paid a cash price of $69,614 for a 1,756-square-foot five-room apartment on the 16th floor.
Balzac's five-room apartment was located on the top floor, at three levels, and as today opened into the garden.
In time his collection covered the walls and filled several closets of his five-room apartment.
Police at the scene reported that the door of the five-room apartment was not damaged.
There were no signs of a struggle, nor had anyone ransacked the five-room apartment.
At $40 a room, a controlled tenant in a five-room apartment would be paying $200 a month.
It is the more modest of the accommodations offered, and I have lived in five-room apartments that were smaller.