New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
brick and Ohio stone Ave stories In height Dodd Mead
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4 Co. occupy the corner store
PROM USIoN-sQUARE TO FIFTIETH-sT.
From Fourteenth-st to Fiftieth-st there very
conspicuous improvements In progress or buildings
going up although there half dozen stores rising
various points Within those limits which Will cost
S35 900 100000 Such buildings do not attract
more than passing notice in Broadway. AT Broadway
and Twenty nrstst. there has recently been hnshed
handsome building of five stores of BRICK trimmed with
marble. designed for stores and Offices IL has found
occupants.
block further IN ar Twenty -second-st the anishng
touches been put 10 eight stories oil
and brown stone part OF the structure is for
stores. and the above offered as apartments
for single gentlemen only" THIS is looked upon as an
tween the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Thirty seconds u Is
House been improved aud freshened up. ana that
taere has small but gaudy and pretentous affair,
aTds and boWnr TSe bushes done at Ibis place is
large, and II has become the resort OF you x men
who good clothes and aspire the doubtful honor
OF being considered fast"
BROADWAY LOSING IT'S IDENTITY
At Thirty secondst. Broadway It Is FROM the Bat
terry 10 that pOinta great business horoughfare with
unmistaksbIe features OF its own-ceases TO be. IL
becomes mixed hSxth-ave for several blocks. and
is apparently discouraged the contact that IL makes
serious effort to its identity or TO assert It's
character before 1t becomes confused with Sevenhave
Forty fl th-st and aDandoDs hope forever There is
Broadway for many blocks further but II is no longer
street NewYorkers boast OF and that strangers
admire. Even tue street leave it and take the
Jungle their bells along Seventhave. stranger must
ask his way II wishes TO find a house in Broadway
beyond F0rty-seyentn-st.
OF trucks aud omnbuses has been left far away and inc
lighter GbnZ Of carriages only seldom heard, or that
that appear to be OF the kind lifted Tor down-town sac
street. tuere prominent buildings III that part
OF Broadway under discussion. Several handsome
hotels are 10 be seen, and at Fory-hrsst there mas
been opened very successful concert hall This is a
WAY OF % feel and In foryrst ST. Of 1877 feet il was
built by TAG Metropolitan Concert Company Qlmed) at
a cost OF $4,000.
THE NEW HORSE EXCHANGE.
The American Horse Exchange QimIted), of which
William k Vanderbilt is the president and August Bel
mont and Leonard Jerome are members, has broken
ground at Broadway, Fft.eth-st and Sevenhave. for
large building OF two stories 20 cost 100000 and 10 be-
10 Its American TattersalPs. In order that
there might be failure in the design OF the buildings
the piaus, made by D. J. Jardine, we're sent TO Tat
tersals London and approved there The front
of the exchange viii be 160 feet in Broadway 80
feet in Fifeth-st. and IA feet in seyenth-ave The
materials VIII be Philadelphia pressed brick terra Gotta
and cut stone I1e principal front VIII be In Broad
way, and in the centre there viii be handsomely
arced entrance for horses and carriages surmouniei
vii be The exchange VIII nclu re
large sSes-rng. clubIooms and Offices blacksmith
shop, harness sAop, feed rooms, carriage lofts and
numerous stalls The sales-riug will be surmOunted by
oofrusel gl above the rest OF the building JOAN
SOrk by October l.
THE RISE OF THE APARTMENT HOUSE
From Fiitietltst. TO The ending of Broadway ten
years ago there were empty with prOblenatic iu
lure, where to-day clustered handsome private
hotels apartment houses The departure in the
mode o. living Of large class of New Workers brought
these buildings into existence and the elevated road
either side made this location eligible Beginning with
the Albany Fifty flr-st of the largest and best
appointed o. them all the Newport the Saratoga, the
Nlrrasansctt the Adephi, the Windsor, the Clcrmont
an the Rockingham, are 10 he noted Broadway and
tne Van Corear ock away IL oeventhave. 1t is
said that within period OF six years capital OF more
man $2,OO0,OOO has been invested In the erection OF
theqe apart mcnt houses The Albany alone cannot be
bought Tor 81 10000. 10 has front OF 125 by 200 feet
ana owned by the Apartment Hotel Company. Tie
Windsor with 'front.' 100 bY 10 feet, cost $50 900.
The NaTra&ansett, at FlityseeJhd-st Is 0n.y parly
completed The owner Is f. MAYER. &c VIII be egIt
Store In height aud viii cost $lJO,OJ0.
Hall Macdonald, real cstae agents. speaking of This
system OF apartment houses, Sad: THIS u business
IN iCse.f The apartment house differs from Is
the mouth, but IN apartment house tho engage
nents tn entire year. Again, mono bus persons
Of good character are permitted TO engage rooms q
apartment houses The demand Tor rooms apartment
HOUSES f. large and increasing The Windsor was com
plced June l. and although the rents RANGE from
800 10 - 600 notwithstanding TIE intervention Of
the hot oigit Of twelve apartments have
been taken already. Property Ia his ghbOrhOud has
benefited Immensely. IRE lot on the sO3h SIDE OF Fifty
frst-s with front Broadway OF 50 feet, Is held 10
street with front Of 40 feet cannot be bought for less
han