The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-13

its enormous potential value to the city
gives it weight enough to crush the Tam
many defence fiat
Residences fur the Rich In New York Z.
We referred the other day to the diff
Guilty Of the problem Of housing the great
and rapidly Increasing number of rich
people IN the Manhattan borough of New
York. those already here and those who
have been coming hither since the open-
INK OF this century at rate previously
unequallcd
That generally the population of New
York is growing with perhaps unprece-
dented raplditv seems 10 be indicated by
the great increase in the volume of the
ira die of the city railroads, surface and
elevated. Complaints of the congested
condition of the lines, not merely in the
rush hours of the morning and even
ing, but also at all other hours are now
louder than ever. and the opening of tho
subway transit is impatiently awaited,
though it will hardly more than supply
the Increased demand for transit which
will have grown up during its construc.
tiun.
The trouble about housing the rich
people uf New York in the single or
private residences usually desired by
them is that the fashionable dis
trict. of their preference is relatively Of
small area. Mr.. HERBERT CRoLY, in a
paper in the Architectural Record, defines
thatSiavored district a. the region east
of Central Park and south thereof be-
tween Madison and Sixth avenues, TO
about Thrty-fourth street" This is a
long but very narrow strip of the island,
and il is not of an area sufficient to meet
the demands upon il of the present and
the early future, except by the means of
lofty apartment houses into which many
families can be crowded.
Mr..rRoLY shows BY the official build
ingstatistics that the increasing demand
on this district by the extraordinary
addition 10 the private wealth of New
York during the last three years has
brought about Il great increase in the cost
Of private residences within its boun-
dapies. In saving that between seventy
andeighty dollars a square foot has been
paid for desirable Fifth avenue corners
he keeps within the bounds of fact, and
his computation that throughout the
fashionable section "A twenty-five foot
frontage is cheap at $1,000 is not too
high. The average cost of the thirty-six
dwellings in that district for which plans
were filed in 1901 was sal 100 During
the first nine months Of 1902 plans for
twenty-nine privat" dwellings to be-
erected in the district south Of Fifty
ninth street called for an average ex-
penditure on each of 500 600 the de
struCtion of another building on the land
being involved; and if residences so rad
ically altered as Ia be- practically new
were added, the number would be dou-
bled. As We remarked tho other dav.
fashion still clngS and for considerable
period To come will continue TO cling tn
the Murray Hill region, loosely so called
even If buildings already there must be
torn down to- make room for its moro
luxWoue demands
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at the present day tncT" /, oraoti-
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