544 West 27th Street (credit: PropertyShark) and Assemblyman Vito Lopez

The owner of a Chelsea loft building is claiming that two long-time tenants won a special provision that altered the 30-year old Loft Law to their benefit and allowed them to remain in their homes, despite a 2009 ruling that they had to go.

Without the provision in a 2010 state law sponsored by Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the two, fourth-floor renters, Marie Nazor and Peter Mickle, would likely have been evicted from their respective apartments at 544 West 27th Street, between 10th and 11th avenues. [more]