Matter of Towers Man. Corp. v. Thatcher

Crane, Ch. J.

The petitioner is the operating lessee of the Towers Hotel, a fifteen-story hotel located at Clark, Willow and Pineapple streets in the borough of Brooklyn, New York city. It is located in a residence district, a district zoned for residential purposes under the Building Zone Resolution of the city. The lessee desires to erect on the hotel an electric sign bearing the words “ Towers Hotel.” The sign is thirty feet long by twelve to fifteen feet high, the letters illuminated by electricity being from twelve to fifteen feet tall. Attached to a wall or stand on the roof about…