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nyc.gov/dob. The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing ...
September 20, 1966. The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, [ 6 ] is a 22-story, [ 7 ] 285-foot-tall (86.9 m) steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg, and sometimes called, in its early days ...
Hearst Tower. The Hearst Tower is a building at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Columbus Circle, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. It is the world headquarters of media conglomerate Hearst Communications, housing many of the firm's publications and communications companies.
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.
The Self Certification program has been cited by some as easy to abuse. A number of Architects have been investigated over the years by the Department of Buildings for self-certifying projects that did not actually conform to building codes and zoning regulations. In 2002, investigators with the New York City Department of Buildings alleged ...
280 Broadway – also known as the A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store, the Marble Palace, the Stewart Building, and the Sun Building – is a seven-story office building on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built from 1845 to 1846 for Alexander Turney Stewart, the ...
590 Madison Avenue. 590 Madison Avenue, also known as the IBM Building, is a skyscraper at 57th Street and Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and Associates the 41-story, 603-foot (184 m)-tall tower was developed for the technology company IBM and built from 1978 to 1983.
94 [A] 2014. 285 Fulton Street. 40°42′47″N 74°00′49″W / 40.713°N 74.0135°W / 40.713; -74.0135 (One World Trade Center) Also known as the Freedom Tower. Tallest building in the Western Hemisphere by architectural height. Tallest building in New York City and the United States. 7th-tallest building in the world.