, 1860-04-25
39res8 4 TrihuttG.
WEDNESDAY. ApR1r, as 1een
sn!ue Of Tenant Houses in New York.
ihe Sunday Time make. the following e1-

sosue OF Tenant Houses in New York.
The Sum dGy Timts makes the following e1-
traordinary statement:
The average rates Of rents charged for the
best md worst tenements rangc from twenty
aTe TO thirty per cent. higher than the rents Of
trHt-class dwellings in fashionable localities
The usual charge for single rooms, in the sec.
ond or third story, are from IS to $12 per
month, while basement, attic and cellar lodg.
ings command from IS to Is per month. II
0lirer street, Fourth Ward.) a miserable rear
building, sixteen By thirty feet, two stories and
Il gnrret, three rooms on each Of the first and
second, and four on the third-tota1, ten small
dens, holding fourteen tamiIies-brought $50
per annum: Another building, on front und
rear lots, six stories, containing fiIty-six fami-
lies, {two hundred and fifty persons,) pays
thirty per cent, on it's original cost. In Cherry
strcet'a tenant house stands, covering two lots,
and running back about one hundred and fifty
feet. In this structure are crowded one hun
dred and twenty families, (more than five hun
Recommendations" consisting Of small room
md dark sleeping closet
Sub-letting increases rents about twenty fire
per cent. The buildings known rs ''Folsom's
Bnrracks," {natned after their owner. a former
State Senator,) are n fair specimen Of specula-
delegates relative to oversee them, the reln.
tire gives then, in charge Of third party; and
thus two agents come between landlord and
tenants, drawing their subsistence from miser-
able people who exist ''from hand to mouth
themselves.
Many tenant houses block up all the space Of
rcar lots, save 4 narrow alley for entrance, and
a well, into which the sun neTer penetrates+ 4
number Of these buildings arc arranged to con-
tain eight small rooms, with sleeping. closets,
renting for six dollars month each. They IN
variably pay twenty per cent. On Investment.
Another description Of houses occupies lot
twenty-five By one hundred feet, and contains
twenty fire families. Assessed at 50, 500 Talue,
it's annual yield, over taxes, repairs, &c-, ID
1880, or thirty per cent, -Four houses and
lots in the Sixth Ward, taken st random, and
valued at ~, 800. contain eighty-seyen families
and geld $4,000 per annuno-n1ore than seven.
teen per cent.
Another new fiyeetory building, containing
forty-eigbt fa1uifies, rents for $3,692-more
than &c per cent One block containing 36i
families, numbering ,5G1 persons, yields from
five to seren dollars month for each family
house is ten By twelve feet; the ceilings o
some do not allow the inmates to stand erect
there is no ventilation, and the entire structure
is ro!ting from neglect-~hut, as remarked by al
agent, ~ pays"
Many Of the worst class Of houses pay thei'
cost in one or two years, aud rs or 100 per cent
thereafter. a lot sixtT-si BY one hundred
feet, comprising front aud rear buildings, will
fifty eight rooms and bedrooms, eight By thir
teen and twelve by thirteen feet, range in yiel,
from - so to &c month for each tenement, o
another lot. fifty by sixty feet, containing
| twenty old stables, cut UP into dwellings
brought $500 per aunuln, while its whole cos
was but 5000