Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
The owners of real property are becoming terrified by the number of laws which have been enacted affecting real property in New York City…in each succeeding year there is a law passed…This compels the owner to expend…large sums of money, which…are absolutely needless and useless.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
That same threat was made when the child labor law was passed and not one of the manufacturers moved out.
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Abram I. Elkus, counsel for the Factory Investigating Commission.
If you pass this bill, it will not be ten years certainly; I believe it will not be five years until practically every cellar bakery in New York city will be out of business.
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Frank P. Hill, representative of the New York Retail Bakers’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
[These changes in the fire code would lead to] the wiping out of industry in this state.
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A spokesman for the Associated Industries of New York. Only date available: 1913.
