He took her back to his basement apartment, at 109-15 109th Avenue, the police said.

For five years Virginia lived in a basement apartment across the street.

"Where are we going to put all these people from the illegal basement apartments?"

Five years ago, her basement apartment rented for $600 a month.

She opened the door to the basement apartment and took the stairs to the main floor two at a time.

You have a family like this moving to basement apartments.

Her husband died in 1989, and she moved into the basement apartment.

He's down and out, he said - living in a basement apartment with all his equipment there.

The woman lived alone in the basement apartment and was the only tenant.

It is not clear whether the basement apartment was legal, he added.