92-22 - Mandatory Front Building Walls Along Certain Street Lines

LAST AMENDED
12/5/2024


(a)    Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section, the front #building# wall for all #developments# on #zoning lots#
       having frontage on Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue, and within 50 feet of their intersection with the #street lines# of Fifth
       Avenue or Park Avenue, the #street wall# location provisions of paragraph (a) of Section 35-631 (Street wall location)
       shall apply, except that the #street wall# shall extend without any articulation up to a height of 125 feet above #curb
       level# or the full height of the #building#, whichever is less. Above the height of 150 feet above #curb level#, the
       provisions of Section 23-433 (Standard setback regulations) shall apply. The mandatory front #building# wall
       requirements are optional for the next 20 feet along the #street line# of a #narrow street# or for the next 75 feet along the
       #street line# of a #wide street#. However, where the front wall of a #building# with a height less than 125 feet above
       #curb level# was constructed with a setback from the #street lines#, #enlargement# of such #building# may be permitted
       by vertical extension of its existing #building# wall.

(b)    For any #zoning lot# having frontage on Fifth Avenue or Duke Ellington Circle, and along East 109th Street and East
       110th Street within 50 feet of their intersection with Fifth Avenue and Duke Ellington Circle, the #street wall# location
       provisions of paragraph (a) of Section 35-631 shall apply, except that the #street wall# shall extend without any
       articulation to a minimum height of 85 feet above #curb level# or the full height of the #building#, whichever is less.
       Above a height of 150 feet, the provisions of Section 23-433 shall apply. Such mandatory front #building# wall
       requirements are optional for the next 50 feet along the East 109th Street and East 110th Street #street lines#.

(c)    Front wall recesses are permitted within mandatory front #building# walls for architectural or decorative purposes
       pursuant to recess provisions of paragraph (a) of Section 35-631 except that the aggregate length at the level of any
       #story# does not exceed 50 percent of the length of the front wall where such recesses are permitted, the depth of such
       recesses shall not exceed six feet and no front wall recesses are permitted within 20 feet of the intersection of two #street
       lines#.

The underlying district height and setback regulations apply along #street lines#, or portions thereof, not subject to the front
#building# wall requirement.