The result is a Zoning Resolution which stands at 806 pages (and still counting). It is an ad-hoc, convoluted, chaotic non-plan for the City, held together by binders rather than a common vision. This essay examines the zoning history of New York City and concludes that a new ...
The ZRD1 Project takes a deep dive into interesting zoning issues that have been the subject of previous Zoning Resolution Determination (ZRD1) approvals. These studies focus on nuances in the zoning text that can confound architects, developers, plan e
these zoning districts also created alegallive-work use for artists in the form of JLWQA, subject to certain restrictions imposed by the Zoning Resolution and
The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setbacks in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below.[139] The Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building (1930) and Empire State Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel ...
of brick spandrel panels, geometric ornamental terra-cotta spandrel panels, and stylized gothic central wall dormers that rise two stories into the roof. Setbacks occur at the tops of the 17th, 19th, 21st, 26th, 33rd, and 35th stories—standard solution toNew York's Zoning Resolution of ...
Again the Woolworth building is prominent and it remained New York’s tallest skyscraper until 1930. Long Island Historical Society Here it is profile in a Library of Congress shot dated between 1910 and 1920. Library of Congress In 1916 the Zoning Resolution was passed to stop buildings such ...
Previously, she was deputy commissioner of intergovernmental and legislative affairs for the New York City Department of Social Services. Drinkwater holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, social and political policy and a master’s certificate in peace studies and conflict resolution ...
ZoningResolutionandotherapplicablelaws.–reviewsover57,000constructionplans–issuesover90,000newandrenewedpermits–performsover300,000inspections–licensestwelvetradeswith29classifications•UnderCommissionerLancaster,FAIA,therehavebeensignificantrecentenhancementstoBISWebandtheDepartment’sWebsiteonNYC.govmakingthemmore...
The Tenement House Law of the state of New York and chapter XIX a of the Greater New York charter in relation to the Tenement House Department of the city of New York : the zoning resolution adopted July 25, 1916, article 8 of t...
suburbanization of the middle class and aspirants both came before the increase in crime rates; two thirds of the fall in New York subway ridership from its twin peaks in 1930 and 1946 to its nadir in 1982 had occurred by 1960, on the eve of the explosion in the city’s homicide rate...