[9YearLurker]

Would the Quality Housing regulations not have applied?

[Taylor42]

How can you have setback rules when the lot is maybe 20 - 25 feet wide? They should zone it for trailors. But then someone would try and put a double wide...

[muawiyah]

This is the Bronx. There are areas that have been reverted to lower density standards ~ we used to call them 'the burned out areas' ~ wild places. Friend of mine lived there in a co-op. A former semi-highrise ~ where you walked up maybe 8 flights of stairs, was converted to a modern structure with an elevator, and new kitchen/bathunits ~ dropped in rom the top down a space cut into every floor. A neat idea.

He loved his co-op.

Some of the older smarmier buildings in the Bronx are actually very well built ~ they're just old and dangerous ~ bad wiring ~ bad water ~ bad sewers ~ bad interior walls ~ nasty buildup of stuff.

When he moved to Virginia he sold his co-op for half a mil.