Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
The owners of real property are becoming terrified by the number of laws which have been enacted affecting real property in New York City…in each succeeding year there is a law passed…This compels the owner to expend…large sums of money, which…are absolutely needless and useless.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[Sprinkler systems are a] cumbersome and costly apparatus.
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Three weeks before the Triangle conflagration, the Protective League of Property Owners's counsel, Pendleton Dudley responds to Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo order that sprinklers should be installed in a number of warehouses. Only date available: March, 1911.
[These changes in the fire code would lead to] the wiping out of industry in this state.
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A spokesman for the Associated Industries of New York. Only date available: 1913.
If you eliminate further bakeshops in the cellar…the poor man is going to suffer, and we are crying now for the high cost of living. If you will wipe out the cellar bakeries, the poor man will get a smaller loaf of bread.
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Dr. Abraham Korn, president of the United Real Estate Owners’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
