1.   Among New York City apartment dwellers, the building superintendent is all powerful.

2.   Among city apartment dwellers, parking and pets also rank high, according to Debra Shime, program director for a mediation center in Manhattan.

3.   And hungry apartment dwellers drum their fingers and check their watches, even as their strolling neighbors dive to avoid the onrushing moo shu pork on the sidewalk below.

4.   And neither cable modem service nor DSL is generally available to apartment dwellers because they involve special wiring.

5.   And the battery-operated devices come in handy for apartment dwellers.

6.   And they predict that the savings will be realized not only by large commercial and industrial consumers but also homeowners and apartment dwellers.

7.   Apartment dwellers face a higher risk of theft, industry officials say, since far more strangers wander around an apartment complex than a single-family house.

8.   Apartment dwellers, on the other hand, can often escape punishment, because citations are sent to apartment managers and not to tenants.

9.   A former managing editor of Solid Waste Management, a trade magazine, Marder knows more about the subject than the average urban apartment dweller.

10.   After that, a tenant gains the legal rights guaranteed to apartment dwellers, including limits on annual rent increases.