Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
The rent is very high, and you can’t recent a place above ground in New York city to establish a bakery. If you can’t have a bake shop in a basement in New York City, you can’t have a bake shop here, that is all, unless people will pay prohibitive prices for bread; And we hear a great deal now about the high cost of living.
This condition is depreciating the value of real estate, restricting its marketability, and driving manufacturers out of the City and State of New York.
[These changes in the fire code would lead to] the wiping out of industry in this state.
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.
