The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

fact that Just now In many ca:es wen-
known people OF good social position are
renting and living In unimproved hats
and parts OF house, at which q few years
ago they would not have deiened 70 Iook,
lent locality. below the Park and OF getting
one or two good-sized rooms
Unimproved fats are not steam heated,
and the housekeeping facilities. " there
are any at all. leave much to Dc desired.
Originally each WAS merely a moor OF
private house from which the owner was
driven by the encroachments OF business
or some other reason, which was then
divided up among several tenants, the
parlors usually being rented Tor some sort
Of business.
Some of them are on noisy thoroughfares
and oftentimes sandw.ohed between COM
monplace shops. Nevertheless. every one
Ia grabbed as soon as 1t Ii vacant ana Al
One One real estate dealer whose place Of
business Is in the fifties who has been
in that locality more than n score OF years
SAYS there Is scarcely a floor, q room, an
attic even. Of any description IN larry
good neighborhood between Warrington
Square and Central Park, that will not
fetch a good rent II It can be utilized az
suitable dwelling by persons OF good social
position.
:Once upon a time,' he remarked. rem
iniscently.. Il remember that was .
ment situated anywhere near the elevated
road to any except business people, and
that many persons who owned ana uved
In houses In q street which was encroacheo
diately picked up their belongings and In
high dudgeon moved Otto wish after
ward perhaps, they hadn't done It. The
situation is very different to day:
People who call themselves quite lash.
iom bic live on the line OF the elev,ted
nd tho trrllou live Daxt door
to shops, between stables even. ~ long
es they q re comp n lively near Fifth ave-
nue and their environment retains some
thing Of the ste mp OF its old-time privacy.
] can get hold OF ole. floor OF two empty
rooms III what WIS once private dwell
ing for 500 a month. even when miliner
or dressns ker occupies the perlor moor.
When house is near Fifth avenue or In
Fifth avenue ] dnn get much more than
There is well-known sculptor who
pys big price for the floor over able
simply Doc use ii In between Fifth and
Sixth avenues. Some Of the best known
mount cheerfully TO what was once the
Coz chmnn's bedroom, even on occf sion
ST. yirg to studio luncheon sent In from
outside, or studio tea, with spparently
IS much. s tisfaction as they were visit
the fact In. rents hive grown TO such
proportious In this loo lily, es In many
others, thf ( people who once thought they
could never live In anything sna Her than
a four story house ere glad enough 10 put
up with a floor. and others who occupied
two-story fist have come down to one
Of medium size.
CONTRARY to what some suppose, tho
building OF 30 many new apartment houses
uptown does nothing whatever to lower
rents down here. On the contrary, In the
first class apartment houses between Cen
trail Park and Twenty third street tho rents
were never 80 high a. they are to-day. some
OF them mounting up to - 500
But for all that, don't believe New
York's population stands much chance OF
being diminished on this score. Even In the
choice between two or three rooms In Nam
haitian and a good-sized house. outside OF
il, in my Judgment. almost every head OF
family will choose the rooms
Families with small children do move
and probably will continue to move away
every year, but the others stay