The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
Number OF


| The total OF 3l%.lo5, 67l represents q
gain Of 1851. "a in capital Investment
made in the classifcations OF private
dwellings. tenements. public buildings
projected by the municipal authorities
and loft and store buildings. The tone
ment house total shows q steady increase
In high class building projects designed
Of the borough. the months record being
thirty-two buildings planned at the esti-
mated cost OF s ,s77. 900. as against eigh-
teen buildings. costing $i.5ls,00o last
year. .
The tenement construction projected
up to June I has reached the enormous
total OF -. o7s. 900. r~epresenting a7e new
invested in sixty-dx buildings in the same
period last year-a gain Of 80. 067 800 Of
capital investment and Of III In the num-
| Der OF buildings provided for over last
year.
s,sns: .s : aere 70 be N erected sns s,an Tor 't the c spans
bia students on l13th street near Broad
way, which will have its upper floors
apportioned into two room suites, COM
prising a parlor and a bedroom. and
called students' 'dormitories.' 1t will
have its dining room and parlors and
lounging room on the main floor and is to
cost SaiO,O OO representing the latest
high class type OF withdrawing for
'p The lott buildings projected in May
number thirty-siX, upon which 1t is es-
timated that IS, l22. 500 will be expended,
being a gain OF twenty buildings n OF
So. $40 900 in capital investment over last
year.
The important undertakings in the
Classification represent the recently pro-
iected improvements for Fourth avenue
with modern freproof buildings OF hand
some type. including the w twelve story
swim buildings to be erected for the
Cooper Hewitt heirs o n the old Peter
Cooper holding on Fourth avenue from
Twenty eventh to Twenty eighth street:
the fine new buildings that Dodd. Mead /
Co. propose to make a home for book
publishers at Fourth avenue n Thir-
tieth street. the eighteen story sky
soraper for the old Florence Hotel site
at the Eighteenth street corner. OF which
| the old Parker Building at Nineteenth
| street, when rebuilt, is To form part. the
two forming an edifice upon the construc-
ton of which 81 ,sa5 900 ia to be expended.
and finally the twelve story mercantile
building. costing $4,000: to replace the
Eighteenth street corner, now being RACED.
The new enterprises In which the city
| figures as owner are the t59S 900 r1nory
building for the Twenty second Regi-
msnt on Fort Washington avenue from
l68th to Iosth street. which with its simple
ment Of the Heights; the new Home for
Nurses on Randall's island. with its Doric
colonnade and spacious swell porch, and
the pathological laboratory for the Metro.
politan Hospital on Blaokwells Island,
which Ia TO have a library, q museum and a
msuagerie for animals used In incubation
Experimentation.
The Office buildings include tho new
building for the Provident Loan Sooiety
on Seventh Q near Forty-ninth
street. an ornate type Of the marble edi-
Aces Of the F~lorentine Renaissance.
The alterations provided for last
osplssi o apo nor az ~ , aissrsns SS q Sh,ss.' ' -
against t6es 40 invested upon So4 build
ings last year. . gain Of SSH. %SS to the
credit Of tho present year.
Tho important alterations include the
enlargement OF Mrs. o. II. P. Belmont's
house at the corner OF Madison avenue
Italian design, With tai Cornthian piIas1
ters; the enlargement of the Flower
Hospital by q clinic and out kitchen at
AT East Sixty-third street. the remodel
ling OF the old Coils p. Huntington resi-
dence at Park avenue and Thirty-eighth
versity Club and the enlargement Of the
convent Of the Roman Catholic Church
Of Our Lady Of Guadalupe by an annex
Of eight stories at 222 and 32l West FIJI
teenth street, which 10 to be fitted a. .
hotel for working girls, at q o Q Of
Sioo 900.
! Statistioian spenoers figures show
that during the Ave months up to June /
the new construction work aggregated
the record breaking total Of 81 .oi2, s2I.
representing 627 different buildings, Al
increase Of y s,2l2. tsS In capital invest
mont and OF Just 800 in the number Of
buildings provided for over the record
for the frst hve months OF last year.
The alterations for the Ave months
represent an additional investment OF
1920, 525 for the Improvement Of l9
existing buildings. 40 against S,224.M
appropriated In the same period 10 1908
for l,2Ts buildings.