Building Code of the City of New York: As Amended to January 1, 1925New York City Bureau of Buildings, 1925 - 360 pages |
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100 feet east 100 feet south alteration Amended by ord apply approved beams board of standards borough brick Building Code building line building or structure bureau of buildings cast iron cement cent chapter columns construction cornice court device district doors dumbwaiter easterly side elevator exceed existing exit feet in height fire commissioner fire doors fire escapes fire limits fireproof material fixtures floor flues foot hollow block inches inches thick incombustible material less live load load masonry motion-picture theatre non-fireproof occupancy one-half owner partitions permit person pipe plaster plumbing point 100 feet Portland cement pounds protected rear yard reinforced concrete residence buildings roof rules shaft sidewalk slabs smoke pipes southerly side space square feet stairs stairways standards and appeals standpipe steel street Subd superintendent of buildings tenement house terra cotta thence running thereof tion trap vent walls water-closet westerly width wood
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Page 247 - ... the repeal of a law, or any part of it, specified in such schedule, shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time...
Page 268 - A RESOLUTION regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected and regulating and determining the area of yards, courts and other open spaces, and regulating and restricting the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified uses and establishing the boundaries of districts for the said purposes.
Page 283 - Where there are practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships in the way of carrying out the strict letter...
Page 263 - The repeal of a statute or part thereof shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time such repeal takes effect, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same extent as if such repeal had not been effected...
Page 270 - In a business district no building or premises shall be used, and no building shall be erected, which is arranged, intended or designed to be used...
Page 4 - Commissioner of Buildings shall keep a record of all applications presented to him concerning, affecting or relating to the construction, alteration or removal of buildings or other structures.
Page 126 - ... square inches, and the whole of which skylight shall be so constructed as to open instantly on the cutting or burning of a hempen cord, which shall be arranged to hold said skylights closed, or some other equally simple approved device for opening them may be provided. Immediately underneath the glass of said skylights there shall be wire netting, but wire glass shall not be used in lieu of this requirement.
Page 257 - ... a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. The officer from whom the appeal is taken shall forthwith transmit to the board all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
Page 119 - ... but all said coils and radiators shall be placed in recesses formed in the wall or partition to receive the same. All supply, return, or exhaust pipes shall be properly incased and protected where passing through floors or near woodwork.
Page 6 - If such construction, alteration, or conversion, is proposed to be made by any other person than the owner of the land in fee, such statement shall contain the full name and residence, by street and number, not only of the owner of the land, but of every person interested in such tenement house, either as owner, lessee or in any representative capacity. Said affidavit shall allege that said specifications and plans...