The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-08

ments occupied by the laboFinR Glasses
/ The vast waterfront improvements under
taken by the Bush Terminal Company
the city and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Including the erection OG giant docks and
factories and the building of the New fOrl
! Conhecting Railway. have led 90 remark
able development in this Part Oi Brooklyn
FROM Twenty eighth street southwark
% about Thirty ninth street the cross
town thOrnughfanes contain solid blocks
u moderate priced apartment houses and
private DWELLING. while cheap fats and
small stores follow the trolley and Gle
waited lines.
Below Thirty-nlnth street the character
Of the section changes, the bulk Of the new
construction there being two family
dwellings. The authorization Of the
Fourth avenue subway led 10 a great real
estate activity in Bay Ridge and the neigh
boring communities Hundreds 81 new
houses have been erected by professional
builders In anticipation u the opening
u the subway. Probably nowhere else
IN the greater city can q home Of moderate
cost he obtained on better terms than In
this rising section II Brooklyn. Bay
Ridge has develOped mOFe rapidly within
the last cUuple u years than any other
part II the borough. Two family houses
Of brick and stone construction and
modern three and four story fats prevail.
To the east Of Raw Ridge arr number
% restricted settlements, among which
Dyker Heights may h. mentioned az typi-
cal DETACHED one and two family dwell
ings there cost from g.. 81 to SiS.0O, and
rent at from $40 to SEQ a month.
THE EAsTERN DISTRICT
n. 49,. u,f...-g.a -. 49, -....... 1
communities known a. Old Bedford. Will
liamsburg. Oreenpoint. Bushwick and
Wallabout All are developing rapidly In
consequences n the opening 81 the Will
liamsburR Bridge and the construction Of
the connecting link between the Broad
wav elevated road and the bridge. Old
BEDFORD. just south 81 lower Broadway.
was a. one time an aristOCratic neighbor-
hood. In common. however, with the
other communities which comprise the
Eastern District Il IL nov tenement sec
ton.
RIDGFwOOp. BROWNSVILLE. CANARSIE.
Under tho local names Of Fast New York
RidgeSOOd. Brownsville and Canarsie
is included a very large section ~ the
borough extending from Fulton street
and Broadway eastward 70 the Queens
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Bay
That part 81 Fast New York immedi-
Atsly adjoining Highland Park IL an Old
native settlement which still retains much
Of ita original homelike character.
RldRewOOd. which extends north and
east from upper Broadway 10 Queens
borough. IL q German settlement which
IL being gradually crowded Out 81 Bush
wick and Grrenpoint hy Jewish and Italian
colonies The extension ~ the Myrtle
avenue elevated road has lPd 70 a great
building bOom in RidgewOod and a great
number e tsnements have recently been
erected there
Canarsia is an amusement resort on
JamAics Ray opposite Rockaway Beach.
Il draws it, crowds mainly from the for
eign colonies tapped by the Broadway
and Fulton street elevated lines
Brownsville il a Jewish and Italian set
ttemsnt reproducing on a reduced scale
conditions on the Fast Side in Manhattan
lts streets. lined with tenements. are
crowded with pilshCart markets. It's
development as a foreign tenement dis
trio; has taken place almost entirely since
the opening Of the Williamsburg Bridge