In 1961 the zoning code was altered to encourage developers to add public amenities to their building plans in return for variances. The revision proved less than successful, and in 1990 the City Planning Commission established new building districts in an attempt to decrease the flood of new ...
New York City Zoning-1961-1991: Turning Back the Clock-But with An Up-to-the-Minute Social Agenda. Norman Marcus. Fordham Urban Law Journal . 1992MARCUS Norman, « Zoning from 1961 to 1991 : turning back the clock - but with an up- to-the-minute social agenda », BRESSI Todd W....
Get Used to It: New Zoning Use Groups July 1st marks the beginning of a new era for The New York City Zoning... Was it All a Facade?: DOB Launches Review of the City’s Facade Inspection Program Facade inspections and regulations may soon... ...
The New York City Privately Owned Public Space Project New York, New York For more than forty years, New York City developers have been building plazas, gallerias, arcades and other public spaces in exchange for lucrative density bonuses under provisions of the city's zoning code. From the ...
“one man, one vote”mandateof the Constitution. The Board of Estimate was to be abolished, and a November referendum decided that the City Council would be expanded to 51 members in order toenhancethe power of minorities. Council authority over the budget, land use, zoning, and franchises ...
209. Old Dogs, New Dicks 老手,新手 They say that the women in New York are the most beautiful women in the world. Which explains why men in New York spend all their time looking at them. The city is a veritable playground for men's roving eyes. Unfortunately, they need both of them...
Although nineteenth-century developers originally bypassed New York City in favor of other cities with less stringent building codes to build skyscrapers, New York City is undoubtedly the preeminent American city associated with skyscrapers today.1 Indeed, various Manhattan buildings have held the records...
Workers had started to paint New York's Times Square into different colored zones from Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, as part of the city's effort to regulate pedestrian flow and street performers activities.
In an ambitious and unprecedented development initiative, the New Rochelle City Council unanimously adopted an amendment to the City’s Zoning Code in December 2015 to effectuate significant downtown economic revitalization. On the heels of the demonstrated success of the Downtown...
Area code(s) 212, 347, 646, 718, 917, 929 FIPS code 36-51000 GNIS feature ID 975772 geoTLD .nyc Website New York CityNew York City traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626.[35] The city and ...