The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
new YORK'S HOTEL WORLD.
ONE DISTRICT THAT HARBORS
10000 PERMANENT GUESTS.
Apartment Hotels Have Made the Region
From Thirty.1Ourth TO Ffty.ntnth
Street . New City-Eeatufea which
How Made These Dwellings Popular.

EEODh III Va ~
Street O. New City.-EeAturea which
How Made These Dwellings Popular.
Since New Workers took so cordially to
the apartment hotel way Of life these build
ings have sprung up in every Fart Of the
city. They are to be found as far south
as Washington Square, Harlem is full OF
them, and there is scarcely a section OF the
city in between that has not such accommo-
dations to offer in one form or another.
But the apartment hotel abounds most
in the region bounded by Thirty-fourth
and Fifty-ninth streets, Park avenue
and broadway.
In that district are more apartment hotels
than anywhere in the town, and these also
are the finest and most expensive.
Including the hotels that also receive
transient guests there are seventy-two
such establishments in the district. Baohe-
lor apartments without restaurants and
flats provided with kitchens are not in"
cluded in this list. Asitis, New o has in
this region alone q hotel population OF only
a few less than 10000.
The majority Of the so-called apartment
hotels will now tai transient guests rather
than run the risk of empty rooms. This
tendency is offset by the new practice OF
the transient hotels. Many Of these, like
the Savoy and Netherlands, rent many OF
their suites by the year. There are arart-
ment hotels that strictly insist on leasing
for a whole year. They are bic TO demand
higher rents for this reason n are sup
posed to be more exclusive.
The tremendous increase In apartment
hotels during the past decade in New York
will be a matter Of record for future his
torians of this city. How much OF 1t was
due to inadequate supply- Of servants.
how much to the, removal to New York OF
jewellers in other cities unwilling to settle
permanently, and whether or not IL was due
in any extent to the American womAn.s
increasing dislike for housekeeping all
these are questions to be carefully estimated
by historians. " .. ~
The average apartment in one Of these
hotels consists of a sitting room, bedrooHa
and bath. From this average the number
| of rooms Ia increased to six or eight. From
s25 a week for such accommodations
the price goes up to $500 a week. The
majority of the apartment hotels are table
d. hote, as it is called, 80 far as their food
is concerned. That is to say, the guests
pay a fixed sum by the week for their
food. This is rarely less than Sf2, but goes
as high as $40. AIN
Such a rate Of living as the last mentioned
may, Of course, be very expensive. In q.
family of four, food and service alone COST
$50. The greatest complaint against apart
ment house life has always looked toward
the kitchen. In spite Of the prioea, it IL
never up to the average possible in a regular
transient hotel. There are few apartment
hotels which have an a la carte dining room;
beoause the demand for food is -too slight
Guests in such a place avail themselves
too often Of the advantages Of the city
restaurants. 1t is only by tying his gussts
down to a regular sum every week that this
proprietor can make his kitchen pay.
Rooms in apartment hotels are small;
like the rooms in all recently erected New
York buildings: but tn ,r g is a maximum
Of comfort provided In this limited space.
Then the question Of service is settled for
ever. The servant question never shows
it's head in any form. The bell boy is nearly
az close as the telephone, and in some OF
these places there are Wallets and BARRIERS at
hand. Life is made 30 easy that space
does not seem necessary. "'a'
The apartment hotels are much morn
numerous west than east Of Fifth avenue
in the region described here. On the east
aide Of tbs avenue they are comparatively
scarce. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues
| on the side streets the number IL larger.
hit further west there are still more.
The seventy-two hotels in this region have
a capacity Of nearly 20, 900 persons. This
number does not include the servants.
How many Of them there are may be sur
noised from the fact that a hotel which
will accommodate 800 guests must have
nj least 300 servants. Not all OF the ser
wants live in the hotels. One hotel pro-
nrietor told THE SUN reporter that it would
not be lar amiss to estimate the num-
Der Of servants living in these hotels at
1000. t..r
The hotels now open or soon to open n
the number Of guests they are able TO 40!
oommodate give a fair idea Of the way In
F., which 90 many persons could be living in
this region as to make a hotel world. The
hotels included in this section, beginning at
Thirty fourth street, are:
The waldorf;Astoria. 800; Hotel Colins-
wood, 200: Greeorian Hotel, $50; Hotel Mdrl-
borough. AIS; Normandie Hotel, 200; The
Aston, 40; The Touraine. 200, Brownies. 20.
Murray Hill Hotel, COO; the Vendorne, $50;
the Saranac, 600; the Knickerbocker. 1000:
Park View, $50: Manhattan Hotel, $50; New
Belmont, 1000; Grand Union. 1000: Hotel
Cadillac, 400; Hotel Spalding, $50; Renais-
eance, $50; Royalton. l4o; Hotel Aston. $50:
Hotel Gerard. $50; Dunlop. 40: Algonquin.
$50; Hotel l~roquois, $50; the Mansfield, 100:
sherry's, so; Hotel Hamilton. l25; Hotel Bel
mont, 1875: the Wroxeter. so; the st. James.
IT'S; the Schuyler, ESQ; the st.. Rafael, lSo:
the Seymour, ESQ; the Webster, 1852 "a West
Forty-hfth street. 40; the Lorraine. 200; Hotel
Remington, 40: the Gallatin, ESQ; the Hol-
land. 90; the Long Acre, 100; ST. Margaret, 100;
Hotel Flanders. s25; the University, $50;
Lexington, $50: Hotel Patterson. 100, and
Hotel Somerset, ESQ.
II is a fact that Forty-eighth street is
almost the only side street in this region
unprovided with an apartment hotel. The
next street, however, begins strongly With
Cambridge Court, 225; Hotel Maryland; $50;
the Bristol, $50; the Hawthorne, 80; Hotel
Weston, 175, and the Buckingham Hotel.
225. -
Fifty-frst street brings another. hiatus
In the list. Then comes the Lincoln; 1to.
which is followed by another street bereft
Of this modern improvement. In Fifty
fourth street there are the Cumberland, 275;
the Hotel Carleton, 800; Hotel Woodward,