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What is NYC AC § 18-112?

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This section establishes restrictions on buildings and structures along Eastern Parkway and its extension, prohibiting certain uses and requiring specific landscaping. It also limits the types of buildings that can be erected on adjacent streets. Applies to property owners along Eastern Parkway and related streets.

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§ 18-112 Restrictions on Eastern parkway, etc.

AC § 18-112

a. It shall be unlawful for buildings or other erections, except porches, piazzas, fences, fountains and statuary to remain or at any time to be placed upon any of the lots fronting upon Eastern parkway, from Washington avenue easterly to the extension of Eastern parkway, or upon the extension of Eastern parkway to Bushwick avenue, within thirty feet from the line or sides of such streets respectively. b. The intervening spaces of land on each side of Eastern parkway and the Eastern parkway extension shall be used only for court-yards, and may be planted with trees and shrubbery, and may be otherwise ornamented at the discretion of the respective owners or occupants thereof. c. Any building standing on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred three, or that may have been or may be erected thereafter, on any lot fronting or to front on either Union street or Lincoln place, easterly from New York avenue to the former city line of Brooklyn, shall never be used for any purpose other than a dwelling house, church, chapel or school house, stable, carriage house, conservatory for plants or a green house; but no livery or railway stable or carhouse shall at any time be erected or maintained upon any of such lots. d. It shall be unlawful to erect, establish or carry on, in any manner whatever, upon any lot fronting upon Eastern parkway or its extension to Bushwick avenue, or upon any lot bounded by either Union street or Lincoln place, easterly from New York avenue to the former city line of Brooklyn, or upon the streets intersecting Eastern parkway between St. Johns Place and President street, any slaughter-house, tallow chandlery, furnace, foundry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for making starch, glue, varnish, vitriol, oil or gas, or for tanning, dressing, repairing or keeping skins, hides or leather, or any distillery, brewery or sugar bakery, lime kiln, railway or other stable, or depot, or any other manufactory, trade, business or calling, which may be in anywise dangerous, obnoxious or offensive to the neighboring inhabitants.

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