The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22

Lots can be had within ten minutes walk
of the Astoria ferry at from $500 to $500 ca CHI,
While on Debevoise venue, one of the GEN.
trail thoroughfares, they may be had at
81 900. On Newtown Creek manufacturing
plots bring 81 800 per foot front, and on the
East River from 81, 900 to So, 800 per foot
The overflow from Long Island City is
felt IN the Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Melvina,
East Williamsburg and Corona sections.
improvements along Newtown Creek and
out toward the Cypress Hills and Evergreers
cemeteries have been largely four story
flats and two family houses. In Elmhurst
the Cord Meyer Development Company
is building rows of two story brick houses,
which are quoted at from SIS 600 to Sc, goo,
In Newtown Heights, a suburb of Elmhurst,
small frame two family houses are the rule,
Rents run from S25 to $35 a month Over
$50 houses e up in Corona last year,
mostly frame detached cottages, at a cost
ranging from So 900 to S. 900 each, In some
cases lots that sold two years ago for 500
now bring 500. Lots are now quoted at
from $500 to 81 900.
East Elmhurst, on Flushing Bay, is one
of the most finished and attractive residence
suburbs in the borough. A tract of 1900
lots was opened there a year and a half ago
by the Bankers Land and Mortgage Corpo-
ration, of which j.. Parker Sloane is presi-
dent, and Charles Louis Sicarde secretary
All but 200 of the lots have now been sold,
Upward OF 100 villas have been built, and
the number Of houses is increasing rapidly
The lots are carefully restricted and the
deeds of sale specify the minimum cost
permitted with respect to building i'm
provements. The prevailing styles OF con-
%struetion are Of a high order. The tract
overlooks Flushing Bay and Long Island
Sound, has macadamized streets, concrete
sidewalks, water, gas and other city inn
p~rovements, all of which have been put in
by the corporation, thereby avoiding future
assessments on lot purchasers.
East Elmhurst is reached at present
via the Thirty-fourth street ferry and the
Jackson avenue cars to Washington avenue
in twenty minutes. Houses are erected upon
sites of two or more lots and stand back
twenty feet from the street. A uniquefeature
of the colony IL a waterfront park located in
the central part of its mile of waterfront
with a pier 400 feet long, extending into the
Sound, the rights to Use which, including
boating, bathing and fishing, are given to
every property owner.
Flushing, convenient to the business
centres of Manhattan and Brooklyn, is
experiencing a demand for real pro pert v
which exceeds anything in the history
of that old town. Not only are people
from other parts of the city buying homes
there, but many have bought plots and
acres of unimproved land ard are erecting
houses that will cost from 5000 to $4,000
each. In nearly every block new buildings
are In course of construction.
Ingleside, west of Flushing, is steadily
increasing. Lots there are worth from
$500 to 81, 500. The houses going up cost
from 1900 TO $4,000. Rents run from
sis, 500 and s25, for small, six or seven
room cottages, to $+5, SIS and $3.50 for more
pretentious residences. There are practi-
cally no flats and few two family houses.
The greatest activity in Queens outside
Long Island City Is in Jamaica % wnship,
including Jamaica, Richmond Hill and
Woodhaven. Jamaica is nc longer a viii
lage, but, with Richmond Hill and Wood
haven, is a thriving, rapidly growing city,
with q population of about $4,000. All
acreage along Fulton street and Jamaica
Plank road was bought up some time ago
at from SIS, 900 to So, 500 an acre and is being
resold in building lots at from $500 to So, goo
a lot. Many fiat houses are being erected,
indicating the presence of a local Industrial
population.
The real estate boom is more or less
general throughout the entire borough,
making it impossible to specify each To-
cality affected, In general, however, it
NAV be said that Long Island City and
the villages in its outskirts are developing
principally as q factory and tenement
as a rule progressing along strictly SUI
burban lines. That the boom is not with
out substantial foundation is evident from
the rapid growth of population revealed
bv the State census of last year, the in
Grease Z m 1900 to 1905 being almost as
great as hat during the preceding ten
years. The same conclusion may be drawn
from the circumstance that last year more
thar 10, 200, 900 ferry passengers CROSSED
between Long Island City and Manhattan,
an increase of 500, 900 over the year before.