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Old Posted Jul 25, 2017, 4:30 PM
Crawford Crawford is offline
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Originally Posted by Zerton View Post
A single story "arcade" at street level? Do they want to give the impression of a strip mall? Hideous.
It's a zoning mechanism, encouraged on long blocks, like those between 6th and 7th, so that the public has better pedestrian access.

And what do through-block building arcades (found all over Manhattan) have to do with strip malls?