The New York Times Archives. ... 1899, Page 4 Buy Reprints. ... to compel builders of tall structures in narrow streets to erect these buildings some distance back from the line of the old houses, ...

NEW YORK A SLUSHY VENICE; City Streets Disappear Under a Sea of Dirty Snow and Water. COATED WITH ICE UNDERNEATH Pedestrianism a Feat of Peril -- Street Cleaners Take Hope -- The Work of Relief.