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Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village (/ ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t / STY-və-sənt), colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post–World War II private residential development on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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 buildings.
The School Construction Authority was created in 1988 as a New York State public-benefit corporation by the New York State Legislature, which removed control of capital projects from the city's Board of Education in an effort to end corruption.
Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...
The West Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. [2] Residential property sale prices in West Village are among the most expensive in the United States, typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m 2) in 2017. [3]
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online
Co-op City (short for Cooperative City) is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods.
The city has dozens of other private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions, such as St. Francis College, The Juilliard School and The School of Visual Arts. New York City's public school system, operated by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest in the world. More than 1.1 ...