Curbed NY has a look inside the building "that changed New York City's zoning laws," a 1915 tower whose ginormous shadow angered Progressive Era New Yorkers. The furor over the Equitable Building is apparently why the city has zoning laws at all, and "why towers such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building were required to have the setbacks that make them so dramatic." Read on. [Curbed NY]
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