glamour model agencies One hundred years have passed since the five boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island formally united and became New York City. During that time, the Department of Buildings has been structured and restructured to meet each era\'s challenges. The present incarnation of the agency was created in 1977, when the Housing and Development Administration was separated into two agencies -- the Department of Buildings and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
