Original sentence: In 2008, the Legal Aid Society and other plaintiffs sued the owner in the New York Supreme Court, claiming harassment, though the Supreme Court threw the case out.Some housing advocates asserted that as many as 300 residents moved out within three years, and some tenants were concerned that the building would no longer be affordable.The new owner spent over $80 million upgrading the property.When the property opened in spring 1976, the director of sales received over 9,000 applications in the rental office
Edited sentence: " Again, the State Supreme Court threw the case out, citing that all claims, including those of harassment, were completely without merit.All attempts to appeal that decision also failed for lack of evidence or merit.At the time of its development, the area surrounding the site of the Riverside Park Community consisted primarily of low-rent tenement housing and mixed-use commercial/residential building types that made up much of Broadway in West Harlem.In 2008, "a group led by the Legal Aid Society filed a class-action suit in State Supreme Court against the building's owner, arguing that a provision requiring that the property remain dedicated to low and moderate income housing had been removed by the City and the prior owners without proper public notice, and that this was a major contributing factor to the efforts to force residents out.Since the change of ownership Urban American has spent over $80 million improving the property for the benefit of its residents including renovating the lobbies and common areas, and apartments, replacing the entire heat and hot water system, installing class-A storage areas and laundry rooms, new safer and more efficient windows throughout the entire complex, completely modernizing all 15 elevators and installing the largest combined-heat-and-power generation system for a residential property in the city's history and whereby making 3333 Broadway one of the most energy-effient properties of its size in the world.Since the previous owner of the property opted out of the Mitchell-Lama program, some housing advocates asserted that as many as 300 residents moved out of the building in the course of three years and some tenants were concerned that the building would no longer be affordable.The former president of one of the building's tenant associations, Alicia Barksdale, asserted, with few facts or precedent to back up her claim, that a handful of tenants believed it was not fair for them to ever have to move, regardless of the changes in the neighborhood.When the property first opened, in Spring 1976, the director of sales received over 9,000 applications in the rental office