New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-31
No. 92Q PARK Ave
DOUGLAS l. ELLIMAn Co AGENTS
Aids TO Choosing
Apartment House Suites

other. Those who have little knowledge
| Of this subject may quickly gain an &C
/ curate idea OF the differences between the
| many beautiful apartment house regions
! in this city by an automobile inspection
| TRIP through the districts and the auto
mobile trip will afford real pleasure 10
the newcomer and sightseer, whereas the
reading Of apartment house booklets soon
! becomes mOnotonous.
! Better transit facilities have also
! helped TO bring about this change in the
! methods Of finding patrons for houses.
Those persons who object TO riding IN
automobiles can quickly travel from one
/ choice residential section OF the city 70
another by elevated. subway or surface
| lines. and consequently the task OF apart
| ment house inspection is no longer
wearisome one. Thus, a person has NJ
| excuse for sitting indoors and trying 10
! learn the salient features Of the various
apartment houses from descriptive book
| lets.
! BY the aid of a floor diagram person
| knows lust how much space he may oc-
cupv under a given roof and what rental
| &c asked. As rentals are based on moor
area. the larger the space the greater the
rental.
The diagrams Of the various apartment
houses built in this city in recent years
| form an interesting study 10 the stuoeh'
| Of building operations.
The plan of one OF the newest and most
| extensive apartment houses I'm uptown
! Manhattan shows that the suites nave
been laid out so as to have unusually
large living rooms
II also shows the doing away with DIG
public Railways by placing the elevator
| shafts so that there is no hallway nc
tween the suites and the elevator doors.
| An idea OF the size of some OF the
rooms in that house may be had by COM
paring them with the average room IN
the ordinary dwelling house.
The majority Of dwelling houses IN
Manhattan are on plot with frontage
NJ * feet and a depth Of 10 feet. By
r,ultiplving those two figures the square
Coz, area of the plot, which IL $3.50 feet
is obtained.
II the house occupied the fun lot z'5o'
souare feet would be the area OF me
ground floor. but the houses cover III fho''
cases not more than 20 per cent OF tpe
area of the lot Or about 1900 square lee''
In one of the newer apartment hou9c'
one of the living rooms Is - by % lee''
or 500 square feet. Thus two such r''i"a
would not quite At on the grouno hooI VA
the ordinary dwelling house, but III t"e
onartment aouse in question there die
seven rooms with square loot area Vi
over 800 square feet, and many o'nei
smaller rooms with the tihlest 'N''7
room about $50 square feet. Ana 'heae
aato,,s rooms can be made much larger
nv removing partitions between seVer"'
rooms making two rooms into one
:, 20 undoubtedly the variety ot Moor
Mans that Is now one Of the most az
trac,ive features Of the up-to-date apart
mani house In fact. there Is such an
oIos,,oi,v n floor arrangements In many
houses that the most exacting. or rather
fast,dious. person ought to find niue az
ficulty in being satisfied. 80,
That the most popular rooms are gun
those with southern exposure VIII VIC
readily seen by comparing the rentals
OF the north and the south sizes OF inc
houses In some cases the rentals lot inc
north side suites is SlCOD or more Tess
than those on the south SIDE and these
figures especially relate 10 lower hoor
suites
There is a truism in the real estate cir
Giles that no tenant can be comfortable III
a suite which does not satisfy his require
ments. The tenant may have too much
space or too little. or not enough OF sun
light or outer air, or may be situated 100
near or too far above the ground. Inc
tenant may need three rooms In me
aarIv foil and Ave rooms or more in the