Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
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.
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Charles F. Noyes “who represents owners of many store and loft buildings in Manhattan”.
[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.
You must relieve [New York's] real estate from the terrible yolk of oppression which has been throttling it for some years past…
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Charles F. Noyes, president of the Charles F. Noyes (Realty) Company, on the Factory Investigating Commission ’s new laws.
Many owners will be so financially embarrassed by the great expenditure made necessary thereby that great numbers of buildings would be forced into foreclosure or otherwise sacrificed.
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The Realty League inveighs against the Factory Investigating Commission fire regulations.

