The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-14
f ort Washington
Ave. Centre of
Building Boom
Where Houses
Are Filled Before
Comp lie tion---
Small Apart
nnents Favored

nOTtn, ana IN turn hnVo tuIncQ u
| over to builders. who win eSect
another batch of apartments.
The ten apartments on Fort Wafh-
, ington avenue between icon end
/ 163d streets have cost nearay ees000-
I 900, not counting the fnvestrnent In
| the land. The apartments In cnabe
T houses rent for $40 and s12 n rudpn,
and so successful has been dhe refk-
: ing " the houses that all have foupd
/ BUYERS. who have taken them es IN
yeftments Al the northeast cpr~br
| Of nJrt Washington avenue and i6Qsh
/ street IL Dayton Court erected Two
, years ago and probably the first on
| For Washington avenue. It's rent
! roli OF $2S 900 a year looked 30 ep-
/ tic ng to the Hoguet estate that &
| /, ught the house from the buildEn.
I tho Dayton Construction Cnmpauy.
B II was held at 100000 not long after
+ the lIoguots sold II TO Isidor Kemp
uer.
The plymouth. at the northeast COT
ner. cost the Saranac Construction
Company $4,000 not counting the
land John Lovel now owns It. He
boIBh, i "A year ago on its rental in
come The Ronda. at 161st and Hort
ls * the one at the southeast cor
ser Each house accommodates forty
two families and they are Friedman
Construction Company operations.
The Hillard Construction Company
improved the northwest corner OF
Fort Washington avenue and 15tst
stree, AT a cost uf s250.0O0. Man.
lr.cd Court. at the other corner, made
-. GOO ~ a few months for Joseph
S"hcnck As was told in THE SUN
last sunday. he bought the property
from the Friedman Construction Com
puny because II has no vacancies.
-Four months later. or last July. he
rasold 10 for $4,000 more than he
paid for il. The house was held at
S"50O00
Houses on Fort Washington avenue
ana those going up on the Smith
property. To- the west Of the avenue
differ very slightly IN appearance and
cos, and popularity from those al
ready buil, To the east OF Broad
way little building has been noted.
The d-velC.ment started on the
Smith property would have been con-
tinued north on Fort Washington ave-
rue but for the Deaf and DUNN in
stl;uttsn grounds and the extensive
holdings Of Mrs. i Hood Wright
which. together. extend from 1884
street north to the Twenty Second
Regiment Armory al iGSth street
within this area L. the Old Yankee
baseball parh Big steam shOvcls are
NOW biting into the turf and rocks
IN the Id field About S4OO. 900 Is
being spent levelling it of. and when
this has been done il would not
be surprising to hear that the prop
crty had been sold 10 apartment
house builders
At the other end Of the divide. "a
brokers call the Wright and Deaf and
Dumb institution holdings, Max and
julius Wcinstein have erected six
story apartment house on the north
west corner of Fort Washin gton
avenue and lG9th street. Next to II
on Fort Washington avenue other
houses are being rushed to completion.
The corner building is costing 500, 900
to put up r. VI. Kru'ewitch and
Charles Rosenthal have built several
apartments on Haven avenue from
l1lst to l12d street. They are all
rented, according To brokers. Aaron
Goodman ana David Zipkin went east
OF Broadway and on the north side
81 l1ith street from ST. Nicholas 20
Audubon avenue built five six story
houses Of three. four and five room
suites ana renting from S2S 10 sS1.
+ Though the houses are still in the
hands of workmen Mr.. Mailing whose
company has charge of them said he
has few apartments TO rent.
The southwest corner Of ST. Nicholas
avenue and l16th street n six story
walk up bought last year by Col.
Jacob Ruppcrt shortly after it's con-
s'rurtion, is the only tireproof walk UP
on the Heights. This fact led TO Mr..
RUPERT taking the house and for the
same reason his agent rarely has to
report vacancies.
In only one instance was tho
building height on the Heights put up
above six stories. This was at the
southwest corner OF Broadway and
l79th street. where ten stories were
piled mp and rented without trouble.
according To good authority
Charles Flaum built seven houses
on Northern avenue between 18th
and lSOth streets, These were sold
soon after completion Then Mr..
Flaum started his operations at tho
northwest corner OF Northern avenue
ana lsoth street
The most northern building opera
ton on m" Heights last year was on
Bennett avenue between lSlst and
S3d streets. Three houses were
erected which open up that avenue.
There is not another house on the
street
Suites of three and four rooms have
been IN greater demand than the large
apartments, ana siuce they bring
more money builders have nnen turn
ing out apartments OF this type There
Is little demand for six room suites
and should there not he a reversal in
the whims OF renters the dav OF large
apartments, on the Heights at least ~
over Newly married people and those
wishing 20 escape house cares mako
HE small apartment suites popular.
The average rent on the Heights 10
about $3.50 a room while there are
many houses bringing $40 a room.
Business depression caused much
shifting in the old population of the
Heights, Salary cuts and losses Of
positions brought about removals
from elevator to walk up houses and
cuts in other ways were noticed
Brokers claim that renting condi-
tons on the Heights are so much
better than in other sections that II