Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1912 — SINGER BUILDING IS TARGET [ARTICLE]

SINGER BUILDING IS TARGET

Charged That New York Skyscraper Projects Fifteen Inches Over Building Line. ... New York. —The department of public works of New York city has completed a series of surveys which it declares show that the Liberty street side of the big Singer building projects fifteen inches beyond the building line. In a few days formal legal notice will be served upon the owners that they must pare down the building or the city will do it for them. The owners declare that no alterations will be made until after active litigation. Their answer to the formal notice will be an Injunction suit in which street locations, sidewalks locations, official surveys, ordinances and laws beginning around 1787 and running down to date will be challenged. Action to be taken against the Singer building will be the most extensive yet undertaken in the campaign of the city to recover its sidewalks. If the city should win and compel the company to move Its building back a sheer foot and three Inches, the cost of the job would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.