“Who is going to stop Howard?” our neighbors moaned. Howard, a long-term resident in our NYC co-op, had a slick way of – as a Board member – slipping in building legislation that invariably managed to benefit – amazingly – Howard. The most recent outrage: Howard obtained and voted, for the second year in a row, a proxy for apartment 334, nullifying the vote of the soon-to-be new owner, a dear friend of the...