290 INDEX 



Height Districts — Continued pack 



Pocketed buildings 34, 237, 238, 263, 265 



Proportioned to character of development 37 



Setback rules 32, 33, 236, 237, 257, 259, 260 



Towers ■ 34, 237. 262-264 



Heights ok Buildings Committee and Commission 



Created by resolution of Board of Estimate 1,3 



Report of Commission 3, 4 



Reprint from report of Commission 51-72 



High Buildings 



Cause street congestion 18, 19. 25, 35, 36, 143, 188, 189 



Depreciate value of adjoining property 166-169 



Effect on nervous system 94,95,162,163 



Effect on ventilation 28 



Elevator sickness 163 



Fire hazards 35, 104, 138, 139, 143, 163-165 



Fireproofing 3s 



Increase elevator accidents 12 



Overtax sewers 174 



Photograph, lower Manhattan from Hudson River opp. 1 



Photographs of congested side streets and high lofts follow p. 18 



Photographs— Tall buildings overtax streets follow p. 38 



Relation to sunlight 141.142 



Statistics, Lower Manhattan 35, 36 



Swan, Herbert S 188, 189 



Holwell, Joseph J 134 



Horseshoeing in Congested Tenement Streets Fig. 77 follow p. 24 



Hotels 



Allowed in residence district 15 



Indianapolis 



Height districts 62 



Industrial Districts, Typicai Figs. 100. 101 follow p. 214 



Industries 



Benefited by segregation 17 



Employees in light industries 17, 18 



Excluded from business and residence districts 15 



Floor area limited in business districts 15, 92, 93, 205, 206 



History of invasion of Fifth Avenue 110, 111 



Injurv done by chemical factories 171, 176 



In tenements 104, 157, 165, 166 



Location of light industries in Manhattan . 18 



Photograph of factories in residence streets follow p. 18 



Residence sections for employees 17 



Sporadic types harmful to business and residence sections 13 



Without tendency to segregate 13, 17, 18 



Insurance Exchange. New York Fire 



Districting will reduce fire waste 11,128,129 



Effect of mixed occupancy on insurance rates 129 



Fire statistics 129-131 



Hardy, Edward R 11. 128-131 



Insurance, Fire 



Hardy. Edward R 24, 128-131 



Increased rates for mixed occupancies 24, 129 



Intensity of Building Development 



Proportioned to character of occupancy 26 



1 N\ ASION 



Causes decrease in real estate values — Fifth Avenue District 112, 113 



Fifth Avenue— History 110, 111 



Of business and residence sections by industry 13, 18, 19 



Of private house sections by apartment houses 169, 170 



Photographs of factories in residence streets follow p. 18 



Photographs of junk shops in tenement streets follow p. 24 



Photographs of horseshoeing in tenement streets follow p. 24 



Photographs of stores in residence streets Figs. 79-81 follow p. 212 



