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[4] [5] [6] The first Buildings Department was created in Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including a Buildings Bureau and a Bureau of Inspection. [7] A citywide Department of Buildings though did not exist until 1936. [4]
New York City Department of Design and Construction is the department of the government of New York City [2] that builds many of the civic facilities in New York City.As the city’s primary capital construction project manager, it provides new or renovated facilities such as firehouses, libraries, police precincts, courthouses and manage the city's sewer systems, bioswales and water mains.
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [2]
The Trinity Building, designed by Francis H. Kimball and built in 1905, with an addition of 1907, [1]: 1 and Kimball's United States Realty Building of 1907, [2]: 1 located respectively at 111 and 115 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, are among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York, and both are New York City designated landmarks.
432 Park Avenue is a residential skyscraper at 57th Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.The 1,396-foot-tall (425.5 m) tower was developed by CIM Group and Harry B. Macklowe and designed by Rafael Viñoly.
The building's address is 1114 Sixth Avenue, but the main entrance is on 42nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It overlooks Bryant Park and the New York Public Library's main branch. The building size has approximately 1.518 million square feet (141,000 m 2) that are rentable, and sits on a site approximately 100 by 442 feet (30 by 135 m).
The Crown Building is at 730 Fifth Avenue, at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [2] The land lot is composed of a rectangular site at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, as well as a connected site at 56th Street.
1740 Broadway (formerly the MONY Building or Mutual of New York Building) is a 26-story building on the east side of Broadway, between 55th and 56th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [1] The building is owned by EQ Office and shares a city block with the Park Central Hotel. Mutual of New York built the structure ...