A sliver building is a tall slender building constructed on a lot with a narrow
frontage
Frontage is the boundary between a plot of land or a building and the road onto which the plot or building fronts. Frontage may also refer to the full length of this boundary. This length is considered especially important for certain types of ...
, typically or less. Since the mid-1980s, one of the most remarkable advances in tall building design has been their construction to unprecedented slenderness ratios.
The now defunct
New York City Board of Estimate
The New York City Board of Estimate was a governmental body in New York City responsible for numerous areas of municipal policy and decisions, including the city budget, land-use, contracts, franchises, and water rates. Under the amendments effec ...
banned these type of structures from many residential
zoning
Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...
districts in
New York City
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in 1983, after residents objected to their construction. The resurgence of the real estate market there prior to the
economic downturn of 2008
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led to a resurgence of these buildings, now constructed in commercial districts.
See also
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''Sliver'' (film)
Notes
External links
"Plots & Plans"article on The Austrian Cultural Forum on 52nd Street, New York, NY, USA.
Curbed blogarticle on proposed sliver building at 785 8th Av., New York, NY, USA.
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' article on sliver buildings from March 18, 2007
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