[FourtySeven]

I don't think this person would be bound by any contract herself, being that she's the landlord and therefore initiated it. Right after 9/11, or at least when she found out that this person died, which couldn't have been any later than the second or 3rd week in October, she could've just torn up the contract and re-rented the place.

That is, if she had a conscience.

[Hugin]

I don't think this person would be bound by any contract herself, being that she's the landlord and therefore initiated it.

I wouldn't count on that in NYC, the most heavily rent-controlled city in the world. From what I've heard rent controlled appartments are passed on to others like an inheritance.

[PsyOp]

"...she could've just torn up the contract and re-rented the place. That is, if she had a conscience."

No conscience. She figured since the survivors were going to be getting big money from the charities she'd slice off a piece for herself.