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COMMISSION ON BUILDING DISTRICTS 



PART OF MAP 



SHOWING THE NUMBER AND LOCATION OF FIRES 



IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN 



DURING THE YEARS 1910, 1911 and 1912 



From the Fire Chart of A. Niflot 



Each dot represents a fire and its location 



Fig. 55. 



A comparison of this map with the Building and Transit Development 

 map prepared by the Commission, shows that the blocks between Fifth 

 Avenue and Lexington Avenue in which a large number of fires occurred 

 had many stores on the ground floor of the tenements, and that where such 

 stores were absent the number of fires was much less. This deduction is 

 confirmed by a careful study of the entire map and indicates the importance 

 of districting in such a way as to exclude stores from tenements. 



