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1927, the commanding apartment buildings
Park Avenue were not just tall; they were immensely tall, true towers, the first skyscrapers built
permanent living. The tallest
them was the Ritz Tower, shooting
the pavement
the corner of Fifty-seventh Street and Park Avenue. Built
blue-bloods and tycoons
Emery Roth, it opened
October 1926 and was one
the first residential buildings
New York constructed
sympathy
the city's landmark zoning law
1916.
Concerned
diminishing sunlight and fresh air
the canyonlike streets created
the closely massed skyscrapers
lower Manhattan, the city placed a limit
the maximum height and bulk
tall buildings. Height limits were based
the width
the street a building faced; if a developer proposed
exceed the legal limit, the stories above it had to be set
, roughly one foot
each four feet
additional height.
Forced
work
the confines
the so-called zoning envelope, architects began constructing 'set-back' skyscrapers,
sections of the buildings set
further and further as they rose
their bases
the island's sky. 'Wedding cake' architecture, some New Yorkers called it.
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