The evening world., 1913-05-31
" ARTHUR PiNoXGR.

~ ARTHUR PiNovGR.
% adyahos the home-b building move
ment Brooklyn has done more than
any Sthse borough.
Looking back even ten years Brook
iyA, with tie vast suburban territory.
wss practically undevsloped. Land
thst was being 'iiied a. farms was
cue Ato building lots and soid At little
mets Man furai acreage prices Since
~ when. eatsred the building trade
In tAe Thlrtieth Ward. which takes In
Bath Bsaeh and Bensonhurst. can
asGak Of the movement from the view
poiAt Of an active participant
We began work on dozen cottages.
winch Was considered then ~ building
on . large scale. One.farnily and tWo-
family uwsifnss were completed and
se,A from $1,000 10 Sik.ooo each for
tive ~ three ysars. Two-family houses
we're In demand and we're sold almost
In pvsry case before completion. They
wsts purchased BY merchants from
AAAtAttan or men employed At very
good salaries.
n iS0 we erected forty two-fsmily
brick, dwellings In the Homewood SEQ
tiea, along the West End line OF the
b. n T. At sixty-sishth to seventseth
stros&h Nsal estate had an upward
tendency At this time. and We sold
the Sntirs two blocks Of houses within
sixty days at o.0w to 1900 each. Then
w. sought four blocks In the South
BrooAiyn section. between Second and
Th1fA avsnuss. within a few blocks Of
tke Bush Terminal wafehousss. We
erected model tensments which enabled
the employees to walk TO and from
their. work at q saving Of time and
carfars. This was in 1906 to 1908.
ouoWAvo 4 SIGNAL Foh oAaAT
AeoiDeNTtAL EXPANSION.
Whsn the idea Of subway from Man
hss>sn 70 Bay Ridge and Bath Beach
wloA . terminal at Coney Island was
devsapping We bought large tracts along
the Droposed transit lines and held them
untn the subway building was assured.
Thea W bought IN F1asbush along the
BdUAton Beach Elevated Railroad on
AvOau1 X and East Thirteenth. -Four
teGD1A anl Fifteenth streets. one block
fr0u the Avenue station. also along
tie ~ 1saoh line ct slxty-sixth street
nn1 Twentisth avenue on the extsasion
81 - TOurtA avenue subway.
~ Avsnus X and East Fourtsenth
sseSes 10 erected ninety-Oss attached
oas-SAmily henso. covering three blocks.
BM,e Of stucoe. they contain elk large.
airy rooms and tiled baths. with par
qust ,fieors and eisetrjo lights They
hsvs twsnty.nve feet os lawn In front
asA rsae and spacious verandas. In a.
disipa ~ buiit eorty-elsht similar houses
in leAplston at sixty-sixth street ana
Twentieth avenue, and at Bath Beach
~ Vut up sixty.two houses With thirty
sSni-detachsd, cement stucco dwellinsS
IN IefPeets Park at Seventy-seventn
atrset ana Fourteenth avenue. All OF
these buildings are within the hve-csns
fare xone from Manhattan.
TAsse last operations were started ana
cououastsd within the past eighteen
u,onths. They made a total OF s'l
ho.,.<s, entaiiing an investment OF over
s1,OoyOoO. Saiea have been enecteo III
tASos various sections to the eA'sh' VI
over % per cent.
Ws completed four hve-story apart
mspt houses recently and sold them ''
. Manhattan investor for $4,000. They
Ara, n Cation ave. and East l7th Ut. vi
S.En adjoining plot We are building iou'
more structures for seventy-hve families
at q cost OF $Soo.oco
0uvtNo STIMULATED eV SPREAD
~ HOMECOMING iNsT'hcT.
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