The sun., 1908-08-23
HAR LEM APARTMENT, HOUSES
FINE ELEVATOR FLATS NEAR
MORNINGSIDE PARK.
Though quite as Wen Equipped as the
Averase West End House. They Bring
Lower Rents. About 81 q Room q
lse Mdnih-Aariem DIV eIIIn r PonuIar Too

Though quite as We'll Equipped as the
Averase West End House. They Bring
Lower Rents. About 81. q Room q
II" " Month Harlem Dwellings Popular Too.
r In the narrow territory between Morn
ingside Park and Fifth avenue, four blocks
to the eastward. may be found an unusual
diversity Of living accommo modations. South
OF ll0th street is a densely populated tene-
ment neighborhood containing many new
fats. These are of the type known as
six story Ewalkups." covered front and
rear with fire escapes that in winter serve
as store room and refrigerator and in
summer as spare bedroom. The houses
are all very much alike in appearance, size.
b cost and in their interior arrangement.
As a general rule they are built on fifty
foot plots and accommodate five families
to a fioor--thirty families to the entire
building frequently there are ground
floor stores In each building.
The apartments are grouped in suites OF
four five and six rooms and rent from
$50 to s35 a month. The houses are usually
put up in long rows. Before one house is
completed several adjoining ones are under
way so that by the time the first building
is filed up with tenants there-are eight or
ten others near by In various stages Of
construction. This has been especially
noticeable Immediately to the north Of
10th street between Seventh and Man
haitian avenues and in the blocks between
i3d and l48th streets, Seventh and Eighth
avenues b.. ..,'.
In the comparatively small area between
ilsth and f23d streets. Lenox and Eighth
avenues, the streets are lined with two,
three and four story private dwellings.
they are roomy. substantial structures
Of brewnstene, brick and limestone COM,
fortably arranged within and OF prepossess-
ing exterior, In former years. before the
LenoK avenue branch of the subway had
induced the great uptown migration, this
part, Of Harlem ranked as its finest resi-
dental neighborhood. Well to do families
made their homes in the old fashioned
time they were unaffected by the changes
taking place in other residential quarters
TO the southwark. But In recent years the
nneighborhood has changed greatly. Its
disappeared. Along the avenues basement
stores appear in the old brownstone fronts
and shopkeepers' signs are visible in the
wide parlor windows. s.. o.
Tall elevator fats and apartment houses.
six, eight or even ten stories In height, with
fronts Of polished brick and limestone.
rise here and there above the private resi-
dences. Along Seventh and Lenox ave
nues |broad thoroughfares lined with fine
old trees-the new structures are especially
numerous. Some Of the houses recently
erected would do credit to the finest apart
ment house neighborhood on the West Side,
They are as elaborately arranged. as lux
! urionsly equipped and in nearly every re-
sheet quite as desirable as the high class
structures that typify the West End. There
is the same wealth of interior decoration.
the hardwood floors and wainscoting.
the liveried attendants. the tiled bath
rooms, electric light and telephone service
in fact all the main features that the apart
ment house dweller Of means expects to
md only downtown s-
The Lenox avenue branch Of the subway
reduces the difference In time between
the two sections to q barely appreciabie
amount. And yet one finds that. in Har-
iem rents are far lower than on the West
Sde, where the $40 room rate prevails.
ldenticaly the same accommodations In
exactly the same sort Of building may be
obtained north OF Central Park for 81
room. There are any number Of elevator
APARTMENTS on Lenox or Manhattan avenues
renting for from s45 to 500 month. They 4
contain from four to ten rooms and are
equIpped with all the oonveniences and
injuries 10 be found In high GLASS structures
oi this sort, The difference in rent Is ek-
pIained simply by the fact that land Is
Gheaper in Harlem and that the river view
= lacking. In other respects there isvery
little ground for discrimination.
Harlem like the West Side. is extensively
bullt up with FIVE story brick fats Of the
type prevailing before the establishment .