New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-06
HOUSES Ar MODERATE RENTS.
4 PRACTICAL PLAN FOR FAMILIES OF SMALL IN
COMES.

PRACTICAL PLAN FOR FAMILIES OF SMALL IN
COMES.
at il an interesting subject, and important one"
aid the agent of q largo New-York estate lie was
chatting with TRIBUNE reporter about homes Tor peo-
plc of limited income. Take man with Il sihall
family and an income IN proportion" continued inc
,cort "Ue ia careful and economical, and wants to
nut by a little every year for rainy day. WELL he
could perhaps pay 81 900 year rent and manage to
mako both ends meet but it wouId swallow mp all his
little snrplus at the end Of tho year. What is his
oltcrnayel He has either TO bury his family in the
Villa of New-ersev live the outskirts of Brooklyn,
or take a Aoor in a pseudo apartment house He does
not want to miss all social intercourse 40 he ~ rule,
makes wry face. shrugs his shoulders and takes
fat He pays least $500 year, and gets seven or
eight rooms each of which will hold from one to three
clors and n table or bed He has a kitchen about the
size of a dumb water and a bathroom which has
bothb large enough for his little girl to wash her doll
mat n pinch. The front room and the back room
have light and air which they are expected to dStriD-
ue through the other cubby holes by means of doors
and transoms. The hallway has row of letter boxes,
and bella the stone steps have bit of brass tubing for
bandrail and the front door has inscribed over it,
The Siberia or The Sahara, or some such suitable
name.
1.-THE fact is the man of small but comfortable in
oopo who wishes to live in New-York, and
wishes to live nicely, has been left out Of tho cal
cuiatons of real estate owners and spectators
aorchcr The very rich man, who does not really care
within thousand or two what rent he pays mas only TO
nick and choose The respectable mechanic or the Ia
horror has no difficulty in finding place to set mp what
he has of household goods but the young professional
or business man Win MODEST noS mas no piduo
10 Law his head. Now want tn begin new era Tor TINS
,nucL mt ilpon citizen. want 10 provide him with an
attractive home in attractive part OF the clty nome
which he will not share with halt dozen other lam
IL. and a yYhi
Nv idea is this. will take whole block on the west
side mt present unmproved property save 12r some
wre.chcd shantes which produce no return through
tho centre of the block will run road, and around
each of the square plots thus formed will erect row
Of good substantial houses three to two CITY OTIS Ihey
will be built in absolutely frstcass fashion with
every convenience in the way of plumbing: ihey can
he finished i'm attractive yellow pine varDshed but Will
he sple and unostentatous both inside and out The
vard will all run To the of the hollow square,
il were and If the tenants seem 10 prefer, lght WIRE
fences NAV form the only partition lines and thus with
GOOD turf aud carefully planted shrubs anu say
fountain in the middle, charming little private park
might be obtained Access from tho street might 10
had from "A common passage way leading rom th e
centre of each side Now these houses could nc rented
at about 5000 or 800 year. the corner houses which
would be a little larger and preferable in every way, OF
course, commanding more than their negh6ors.
To the property owner too. these would furnish the
most convenient form of investment. He might not
get ~ high of interest as from tenement property
hut then he would have no bother with mpecunious old
women, smelling of whskey, who beSeige the tenement
house owner with pte0us cntreates Tor more tme To
scrapc the rent together While producing less
return than high class apartment houses there would
he less outlay at the start and less loss from temporary
noccupancy Houses such as | have described would
never be inlet The tenants would keep the houses IN
repair and paw the Croton bill All the landlord would
have to do would be receive the rents, which would
know be promptly paid by this class of people, and
pay the taxes.
One reason orthe high rents in NewYork by the way,
Ia the foo hness of suburban property holderS There
are plenty of plots the river III Westminster that
could bo made delightful building estates, but the own
far tan nm
thoir hands rather than get an immediate, sure and
adequate return. If they only sensible suhnr-
ban colony such M Bedford Park near London might
easily be- formed the question We have boon dis
cu,sng settled In another manner