Real Estate
Cry Wolf Quotes
You can no longer distinguish the real estate owner by the smile of prosperity, because his property is now a burden and a liability instead of a comfort and a source of income. To own a factory building in New York City is now a calamity.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
[Those killed in factory fires are] an infinitesimal proportion of the population.
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Robert Dowling, NYC real estate man, and voice of business on the Factory Investigating Committee. Only date available: 1913.
Not only is this against the principal of home rule, but such legislation transfers the enforcement of the law to an unknown and untried body of men and takes it out of the hands of the Fire Department….one of the most efficient departments of the City of New York.
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Charles F. Noyes “who represents owners of many store and loft buildings in Manhattan”.
You must relieve [New York's] real estate from the terrible yolk of oppression which has been throttling it for some years past…
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Charles F. Noyes, president of the Charles F. Noyes (Realty) Company, on the Factory Investigating Commission ’s new laws.
