Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
It is almost impossible to sell any real property in New York City at the present time at its assessed value.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
Excited persons rarely accomplish anything…No new laws are needed.
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The New York Times tended to be very pro-business during this period. After the fire, but before the launch of the Factory Investigating Commission. Only date available: 1911.
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.
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.
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Mr. Frank P. Hill, baker.
