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Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height, Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the city of New York (1913)

New York (N.Y.). Heights of Buildings Commission, Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948, New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Swan, Herbert S. (Herbert Siegfried), 1888-, Williams, Frank B. (Frank Backus), 1864-1954, Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC · [New York, M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Co.] · leaf 215

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ons not exceeding 98.40 feet in length; each sectionto have its height computed separately. The street width at a streetintersection is considered as the width of the open space betweenthe facades measured at right angles to each facade respectively.The additional height thus acquired by a building… … A building, however, upon a corner of two streets of unequalwidth and of any slope may have the same height on the narrowstreet as that accorded upon the wide street for a distance backfrom the wide street not exceding il/2 times the width of the narrowstreet. Where the intersecting streets are of…

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