All four corners at 60th and Park had been restricted to residential in the 1916 zoning resolution.

The building was widely noted in the architectural press and used to illustrate the good effects of the 1916 zoning resolution.

The current zoning resolution requires a continuous street wall.

Its current zoning resolution was enacted in 1961, at a time when New York had 675,000 more manufacturing jobs than it does today.

The ratios are written into the city's Zoning Resolution, adopted in 1961.

The community facility is not a bonus within the Zoning Resolution.

"I don't believe that the city's Zoning Resolution has to recognize development rights being generated by underwater land," he said.

Perhaps the most basic reason the Zoning Resolution may never be fundamentally rewritten is the lack of political will to do so.

The real estate industry finally ceased its objections to new legislation and the 1916 Zoning Resolution was passed.

One result was the 1916 zoning resolution, which excluded factory-type construction in prime shopping zones.