Section 22-118. Construction of sheds; regulation by commissioner

a.
  Whenever any person, shall  be  owner  or  lessee  of  any  water  front
  property,  wharf,  pier,  dock  or  bulkhead,  and  shall use it for the
  purpose of regularly receiving  and  discharging  cargo  such  owner  or
  lessee,  with the consent of the lessor, may erect and maintain thereon,
  sheds for the protection of property so received or discharged, provided
  they shall have obtained from the commissioner, license or authority  to
  erect  or  maintain the same, subject to the conditions and restrictions
  contained in such license or authority. Such license or authority, after
  it has been granted and has been acted upon, shall  not  be  revoked  by
  such  commissioner  without  the consent in writing of the mayor and the
  board of estimate. Notice shall be  given  to  all  parties  having  any
  interest  therein  of a hearing before the board of estimate to consider
  the application of the commissioner for the revocation of  such  license
  or  authority. Such notice shall be given by publication thereof for six
  consecutive days in the City Record, not less than  ten  nor  more  than
  thirty  days  before such hearing, and by posting, not less than ten nor
  more than thirty days before such hearing, copies of such notice, in the
  form of handbills, upon the shed or sheds erected or maintained pursuant
  to such license or authority, or upon the water front  property,  wharf,
  pier,  dock  or  bulkhead  upon which such shed or sheds shall have been
  erected or maintained. Such sheds hereafter shall be constructed subject
  to the regulations and under the  authority  of  the  commissioner.  The
  commissioner  may  build  and  maintain  such  sheds  on any water front
  property, wharf, pier, dock or bulkhead owned by the city and under  the
  charge  and  control  of the department, and may lease the same; and any
  lessee thereof shall have all the rights and privileges above granted.
    b. Nothing in subdivision a of this  section  shall  be  construed  to
  authorize  the  erection  or  maintenance on any pier of any storehouse,
  booths, shops or other structures than  the  sheds  mentioned  with  the
  proper  doors and gates appertaining thereto. The commissioner may grant
  a permit or license, however, upon such terms and conditions  as  he  or
  she  may  deem  proper to the lessee of piers twelve, thirteen, fifteen,
  and sixteen owned by the city  in  the  borough  of  Staten  Island,  to
  maintain  a  place  for  the  keeping and care of goods, merchandise and
  materials discharged from vessels, upon any floor of any such pier.
    c. Nothing contained  in  subdivision  b  of  this  section  shall  be
  construed   as  interfering  in  any  respect  with  the  government  or
  regulation of the Staten Island free port.