Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
It is almost impossible to sell any real property in New York City at the present time at its assessed value.
You must relieve [New York's] real estate from the terrible yolk of oppression which has been throttling it for some years past…
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.
Notwithstanding all the talk of a probable exodus of manufacturing interests the commission has not found a single case of a manufacturer intending to leave the State because of the enforcement of the factory laws.

