New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-06
In the Path of a Big
Apartment House MpaSiOn

building characteristics has resulted in
large numbers Of we'll known persons
moving from dwelling houses 10 apart
ment houses Apartment house life was
never so popular in Manhattan. The ten.
dency to leave dwelling houses for apart.
ment houses is not yet one Of the features
Of building changes I'm the Hil section.
But the day is not far or, ] firmly he.
! lieve. when many apartment houses viii
occupy the sites of many residential land.
marks here
Conditions are most favorable for this
/ transformation. Dwelling houses Oh 0
| foot lots may be bought in the district A:
from 81. 80 TO $500 Thus the purchase
price would make possible the quick re-
placement OF the old houses with up-to.
date apartment house structures.
THE building of such structures would
be most profitable undertakings for spec
iulative builders and a good inyestment
market would quickly be found for thoss
| houses. II has been conc.usWely proved
that good income houses can be- operated
here at rentals remarkably low.
There are suites Of i've rooms 10 ieass
! I'm the district AZ from 50 90 81 d room
month Ia other words the rentals Tor
/ the hve-room apartment range from 80
to So a month These apartment houses
| have every known convenience including
safes for the protection OF the jevelry and
. silverware OF the household. The rooms
are as spacious as those i'm the attractive
modern Manhattan apartment houses.
while the average rental for each room s
much less
some apartment houses of the very
/ best type are already beius constructed
/ I'm the district, and l feel assured that
/ these building ventures viii merit tho
success due them. ] desire 20 emphasize
the fact that Tor high class apartment
/ houses there is no better place than this
The signs OF the times are clearly Indi-
Gated in the recent purchase OF the Mo
/ hawk apartment hotel In Washington ave-
nue. by the manager Of the hostiery T'fs
apartment hotel is on a firm paying basis
The district is now only O. few minutes
/ by trolley or subway from downtown
Manhattan It's westerly border is part
Of tine great retail shopping and the prin-
/ tlndi iNfdiEf iFuAlf Ut ili' ''t''i-' '''.t.'
the newer subway projects are in effect
We will have most excellent transit iec.l'
| ties 10 aud from all parts OF the city,
The action recently taken by the Real
Estate Protective Association to permit
| the alteration of three story lWdW-s
/ into three-family tenement houses With
out being subject to the present tenement
house laws has my hearty approval II
| the bin favored by the association 1e-
comes a law IL will reduce the lifluc 'A-
penses of numerous small storekeepc,s ~
/ the borough Under the present tenement
house law II Is not possible for store
keepers to live on the ground floor back
/ OF their stores. if there are two families
upstairs. without putting the hu.amS
under tine jurisdiction of the Tenement
House Department.
4 think IL is ridiculous to permit ROOM
ing houses of three stores OF more 20
have many families and vet be outside ot
the Jurisdiction Of the Tenement House
Department. and 10 prohibit the PLACING
OF three families I'm the old-fashioned
dwelling houses unless the structure con-
form to the new type Of the three-iam!iy
fiathouse.'