Matter of Sloane v. Walsh

The Walton-Whyte Realty Co., Inc., the intervenor, appellant, is the owner of a vacant lot on the east side of Jerome avenue, in the city of New York, 350 feet south of the intersection of that avenue with East One Hundred and Eighty-first street. Both streets are. in a business district. The company applied to the Superintendent of Buildings, having jurisdiction, for a permit to erect and maintain on such lot a garage for the storage of more than five motor vehicles. The application was denied on the ground that the erection of such a garage in a business district was prohibited by the…