New-York tribune., 1900-08-26

tricity and steam. Some supplied with such
conveniences liquid air refrigerators, by which
IN each apartment the refrigerator is connected
with a central plant in the basement In order 10
cater more fully to their tenants many owners
have held back such furnishing that Of tnting,
frescoing, papering and wainscoting. that these
details may be determined by the occupants.
With the exception Of few cross streets, the
huge apartment houses which have been completed
are along Central Park West, Broadway, Riverside
Drive Lenox-ave. Seventh-ave.. Morningside-
ave- and upper Fffth-ave. II one might take
huge pair Of conpasses and place one point upon
the peak OF Grants tomb, the other upon the foot
Of West Sixty-sixth-st.. and describe a semi-cir-
conference over the city, he would include almost
all Of this class of buildings within its sweep.
INFLUENCE OF COLUMBIA
Nor is it at all difficult 70 understand why this
part Of the city is thus being transformed and
promises undergo a still greater transformation
in the future On the crest Of Morningside Heights
stands the new Columbia University. a power in
the educational world. which is attracting to II an
ever increasing number Of students each year. Con-
seQuently the influences which have made Cam
bridge the home of the cultured and edu-
Gated gentry Of Boston working out the
same destiny IN this section in the neighborhood
Of Morningside Heights This development may
result IN different modes Of living and different
kinds Of houses. because of the crowded condition
Of metropolitan life, than those of the old Boston
suburb but the intellectual and esthetc evolution
cannot but be similar.
In addition to Columbia University proper are
Barnard College and the Teachers College Many
other institutions of learning Of private character
are being established in this section of the
city.
Compatible with the splendor Of the architecture
Of many Of the buildings VIII be the great
Cathedral Of St. John the Divine, towering above
the Hudson. Already span Of its arches has
been completed. and its walls are slowly ris
ing. To one who watches the building OF the Cathe-
drai where stone after stone must be Joined with
slow and exacting masonry Il is a striking con-
trast TO lock upon the erection of a modern sky
scraper. which almost in night leaps up an iron
skeleton, he clad afterward with the gar
rnent Of stone and brick
Standing a Boulevard car a Tribune reporter
yesterday made note Of the apartment houses
which have been completed during the summer be-
tween Sixty-ffth-st and the end OF the line at
one-hundred-an -twenty-ninth-st He found that
structures Of this kind had been erected and com
pletea on the southwest corner Of Sixty-ffth-st.,
the southwest corner Of Eghty-second-st. the
northwest corner Of Ninety-hrst-stt the southeast
corner OF Ninety-secOnd-st., where the st. James
Court has been erected: the northwest corner Of
Ninety-hfth-st, where the TuilIeries has been
ouiti the northwest corner Of Ninety-eighth-st
the southeast corner of Ninety-ninthst the south
west corner Of Observation-Disclosures the south
east corner Of one-hundred-and-second-s the
half block on the northwest corner of One-hun-
dred-and-third-st.. the northeast corner of One
hundred -seventh-st. the whole block front on
the west side between One-hundred-a "A nd h
ana One-hundred-and-ninth SITS. the northwest cor
ner OF Observation-Disclosures the northeast
corner OF One-hundred- a nd tairteenth-st ,be
northeast corner Of hundred y nj ya,,,,,
fourth-st. and the southwest and. northeast cor
ners OF One-h hundred nd-twenty-hfth-s Tnde.d
from Ninetieth-st TO One hundred an 4 ,a,.t. -
me entire front Of this part OF Broadway has
taken on a new aspect fanked on either side With
spacious and oftentimes exceedingly pretentIous
structures.
NEW ENTERPRISES
In many places in Broadway builders are lust
beginning TO eXcavate. not hoping TO have the con
struc'ion Of the superstructure finished befo-. -.
summer Again. there buildings being ereoted
or such dimensions that although wear NJ rori-
mas already passed they far from completion
As an example. the fourteen story apartment house
which W. f. D. Stokes is building on ,he u,es, td
oI Broadway, between Seventy-third and SEVENTY
iourtn sts The building has now reached It's
sfoPe 5 T6 Of iron work and its tier of
ground oor area Of n ss }ee having
5he northeast corner Of Broadway and Sew
we've story apartment house from plans bv Lanes
four aparments qI on Ha ooT sSmpeted @ and viii have
Let and its side walls IO5 feet and i5o feet
BT9adRsy SRs nGEfhst Wsm SSsps6 %sIs6re Of
% 1ignt story structure on plot l3Sxi5s feet after
~ p@hS ~ Clinton q Russell The building win be
u DfieK ana stone and cost about 100000
TO OCCUPY A BLOCK FRONT
The foundations Of a double seven story hut,dtno
70 occupy the whole block front between Eighty
hfth-st and Eighty-sixth-st. are now being latd
h Dongan IS the owner and builder and HIN q,
Turner are the architects. The building will cost
about s594O00
Along Riverside Drive which augurs OF the real
estate market Prophesied some wears ago would
oe the greater Fifth-ave.. of New-York from which
the quasi-publie apartment house wouId he IN
e!uced IN favor Of the private dwelling there ba We
beea bulit ana are In process Of construction
Dig apartment houses OF the most modern ana
eIaDorate type Among those building of this class
OF Vnicn mention has been made the real
columns OF The Tribune IS the seven story apart
ment mouse OF Garrett NJ Taylor. ffty-seyen feet