The results have been picturesque but abortive as a means of diverting the economic consequences of old age. The most significant fact for all our street's residential blocks is that development has ceased. Renovation is at a standstill. No new construction has been projected since the depression. The market for high rental apartments in our street is already saturated.
Land value are too high to make new low rent projects feasible.
For three quarters of a century modernity struggled to transform our street, only finally to give up trying. There would always be an eerie from which the Survey Graphic could swoop down on perplexing social problems. The dwellings nearby, such as that which has served Ida Tarbell for a workshop and others like it, would continue to shelter adepts of the arts. The Block Beautiful would be as immortal as Keats's Grecian urn. Old memories would still cling to our street and new and happy ones accumulate.