The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29

~neighborhoodS Of Manhattan. The policy
pursued by III" Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is making East New York Il great
freight and manufacturing centre. The
company's improvements will place this
section Of Brooklyn in more direct comulun-
&! ication with the rest Of the country than
any other portion of the borough. The
Williamsburg Bridge has brought 10 East
New York thousands Of people who nave
found there cheaper dwelling quarters
than they could have obtained on the lower
East Side of Manhattan and they still re-
| main within reach Of the wholesale clothing
district. Taken AS a whole, the sections
in and about East New York are developing
into q manufacturing and tenement house
neighborhood.
The exclusive residence districts lie
west and south of Prospect Park. These
may be considered a. comprising suburban
Brooklyn. They are developing along OK
clusively residential lines and, while con-
tanning a certain proportion of high grade
flats and apartments, are devoted more
espei ia,ly to one and two family dwellings.
Suburban Brooklyn, including By Ridge
and the entire southerly half of the borough,
i geographically near the Manhattan
City Hall. At present there is practically
no rapid transit to the greater part Of this
section. Bay Ridge, New Utrecht, Blythe
bourne and the neighborhoods further
20 18th are hard to reach. These have
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conditions, a good indication of what is
likely to follow when the new subways will
bring the whole OF southern Brooklyn
within fifteen or twenty minutes cf Man
haitian.
Prospect Park Slope has developed an
unusual amount OF activity during the last
three years. The Litchfield estate has been
exchanging its large holdings OF lots for
investment properties in Manhattan, with
the result that builders have been able to
secure sites for new apartment houses and
high grade private dwellings. This has
caused a considerable increase in the local
population. The Park Congregational
Church recently completed a ner' edifice
at Eighth avenue and Second street, and a
Carnegie library is to be erected at Sixth
avenue and Ninth street.
At the foot of Prospect Park Slope, along
the Gowanus Canal and the basins of the
Brooklyn Improvement Company the num-
Der of tenants have doubled in the past
four years. The recent Improvements along
the canal nave apparently ended all thought
Of closing this arm OF the bay. The advan-
tage OF building the basins is proved by an
increased number of vessels d~ischarging
freight, chiefly building material.
Progress in the development of Borough
Park has been marked. Reached by direct
electric elevated trains from the New York
CITY Hall without change of cars in twenty
six minutes for a five cent fare, Borough
Park has grown rapidly. 1t now has churches
Of all denominations, two OF the largest and
most modern public schools and a s55 600
clubhouse. This spring Edward johnson is
completing 100 houses, built on plots 40Xl0O
and 6ONlO0, and containing from nine to
fifteen rooms. In style and workmanship
these houses are representative of the
better grade OF dwellings peculiar TO subur-
ban Brooklyn.
The structures going up in the suburban
area are chiefly W or three story frame