The deal, taking effect a year later and known as the 1961 Zoning Resolution, was the culmination of a multi-decade effort to replace the city’s 1916 zoning framework with one ostensibly suitable for ...

Bad news and … great news! Your rich Aunt Rose just passed away, but she has left you a 3,000 square foot vacant lot in Brooklyn! The property is transferred over to you (along with the real ...

What is preventing this? The powers of the Zoning Resolution. In 1926, the same scenario faced Ambler Realty Co., who wanted to construct an industrial plant in the town of Euclid, Ohio.

The first was on July 25, 1916, when the Board of Estimate and ... The name shortened Board of Estimate voted in a new zoning resolution on Dec. 15, 1960, led this time by Mayor Robert Wagner.

New York City’s 1916 zoning code, the nation’s first, was estimated to provide enough housing for a city of 55 million people. In the 1920s, the city saw the construction of almost 750,000 units of ...