Lyci did not shorten her name, it's the name her friends and family had always called her.
Mest Lover, you are right there were 7 floors, the top one was strictly for CMO staff, and not all CMO staff were housed up there. They had a lock on the door that you needed to punch the combonation into in order to gain entry.
The elevator did work at one time, there was a child who was playing with matches and wound up setting the shaft on fire in the early 80s. This happened at night and in the fall, not sure what year exactly due to some memory blocks. All the young children had to be woken up and brought outside. The fire department tried to have everyone stand in front of PS 17 which was right across the street, one or two of the littlest children were missing. Lyci and a few other girls were standing outside in towels as they had been having a shower when the alarm was raised. Anne Hoffman, Lyci, and a few other people were arguing with the firemen because one of her children/Lyci's brothers were missing.
Anne Marie Binda does not exist, Anne Marie is a combination of Shane and Quentin Hoffman's fathers wives. First one (and mother of Lyci and Penny) Anne, I belive his second wife was Marie or Anne Marie.
Eric Knauerhase, who had custody of Lyci, had married Anne (once Binda, then Hoffman), Both Eric and Anne were very genuine people and quite nice (most of the time)
349, was once in pretty good repair, over the years, due to an unwillingness to put money into renovations, the building fell into disrepair.
The Front room on the second floor went from being a dorm room for men, to being a storage room, to being a nursery, to being a storage room again, to being a Scientology school to ....
The thrid floor was the woman's dorms, then the Children's Theater dorm, then a storage space, then one side was the woman's dorm, the other the mens dorm, then ....
Fourth to sixth floors were for CLO FAMILIES, then it was fourth and fith for CLO families and the 6th became for lower ranking CMO members (families and even single people)
The Seventh Floor was only CMO, then upper CMO staff and then became resticted only to those with the combination code to the lock and those who lived up there.
Main floor was Storage, Nursery, Children's Theater space, and empty space
The basement housed the boiler room, the elevator maintence space and storage.
The many children of scientologists were taken care of at the 48th street building, keeping them out of sight out of mind. There were a few times their care was moved to 46th street.
The Deli on the courner was called Ali Amonies, and there was another one halfway down the street on 8th ave between 47th and 48th street called Goldilocks, the firehouse was on the corner of 48th and 8th, there was a Rays Pizza on the other side of the street and a little bit down, half way between Goldies and the fire hall. and kitty corner from the fire hall was another little grocery store, they usually had fresh fruit out front.