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40 Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
New York City’s zoning code turns 100 this year. That may not sound like cause for celebration — except maybe for land-use lawyers and Robert Moses aficionados. Yet for almost every New Yorker, the zoning code plays an outsize role in daily life, shaping virtually every inch of the city. The bays and cliffs of the Empire State Building come from zoning, as do the arcades and plazas of Park Avenue.
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