1.   Andrew Flamm, the executive director of the business improvement district, said the tax incentives could be a deciding factor for families that have long owned the buildings.

2.   Bloomberg has also decided to loosen the restrictions governing business improvement districts, which supplement city services, to encourage their expansion across the city.

3.   City officials and business people who control other business improvement districts said the directive raised unresolved questions.

4.   Councilman Craig McDaniels, who was instrumental in establishing the improvement district, said it had helped improve landscaping and set guidelines for future building in the area.

5.   Creating one would require creating the residential equivalent of business improvement districts, those self-taxing coalitions of businesses that clean, patrol and upgrade their neighborhoods.

6.   Falling crime and a robust retail economy had a number of different roots, according to Feehan, but the improvement districts got a lot of the credit.

7.   Grand Central Partnership is a business improvement district, formed by property owners to improve security and cleanliness and to spruce up the midtown area around Grand Central Terminal.

8.   He will also have to accommodate the looming presence of Giuliani, who recently shut down another improvement district after its director was insufficiently deferential.

9.   His plans to create a similar business improvement district in New Jersey had to be scuttled after questions arose about its financing.

10.   In particular, Bratton sees the proliferation of so-called business improvement districts as a niche for First Security.