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Advocates seek crackdown on illegal hotels

The Broadway Studios Hotel markets itself to chic European travelers looking for a cheap room in the heart of the Upper West Side.

But the deal comes with a catch: it's not a licensed hotel at all, but home to a dozen or so full-time, rent-paying tenants, many of whom who have lived there in squalor for years while the landlords have tried to get rid of them.

In fact, according to...

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