Though still a co-op, the building just adopted condo-style rules, limiting the rights of current owners to object to a potential new purchaser, according to brokers.
Mr Olis's fate has also been seen as an object lesson of the dangers in the current climate of pleading not guilty and going to court, rather than striking a plea bargain with prosecutors.
And they added that the current lack of an independent appeals process for landowners who object to the route was a "fundamental weakness" of the draft Bill.