New-York tribune., 1915-03-07

ing features Of this Stuyvesant Square
section may be affected seriously by
an thrush of builders of cheap fiat
houses" said a well known real estate
broker last week. That's the one
menace. 1t could be offset by the prop
erty owners in the section forming an
organization to protect their interests.
"What downtown district Of the city
is better suited for the erection OF
many high class apartment houses than
this? Much has recently been SAID
about the increasing demands for
apartment suites of the best type IN
old Greenwich Village. Old houses
there have heen made over into homes
that appeal in an irresistible manner
to many people Of exacting tastes. 1t
Is true that the Stuyvesant Square sec
tion does not contain many blocks.
Yet the value of its realty is large
enough to warrant the expenditure or
considerable money to remove what
ever menace there is TO the perpetual
tion of the old residential charms ol
the section as long as possible.
It was in the early 90's that marked
changes took place in the old skyline
of the section. The block front on the
westerly side of Second Avenue from
Seventeenth to Eighteenth Street was
bought about this time by the late >.
Pierpont Morgan, and was subsequent
lv improved by the tinancier with the
Iying-in Hospital, a gift representing
considerably more than Sl,5OO,OOO. IN
later wears there have been built IN the
section the Hebrew Technical School
for Girls, at the soI' last corner OF
Fifteenth Street an Second Avenue
the Stuyvesant Hig' School, occupying
the larger part { ne block bounded by
Fifteenth and SIHteenth Streets, FIRST
and Second Avenues; the st. Andrews
Hospital for COnvalescents, in Seven
teenth Street, just west of Second Ave
nue: the Columbus Hospital, running
from Nineteenth TO Twentieth street.
west of Second Avenue; two apartment
houses. at the northwest corner ol
Fourteenth Street and Second avenue
where for many years stood the nome
of the late William NJ. Evarts, at one
time United States Senator from thlS
state: the greater New YORK IosI
Graduate Medical School and Hospital l.
at the northeast corner OF l"ehtleth
Street and Second Avenue, and the ne
brew Charity Building, at the north,
east corner Of Twenty Street ana
Second Avenue.
Tho number of hospitals and lnsti-
tutions, both public aad private, IN tne n
Stnvvesant Square section of the CITY
10 large. and in the near future IT VIII
be bigger. as the new Beth Israel HOS
nital is to be on plot in Livingston
place The site TO be improved IS ~,
"a and IL Livingston Place and 3Zz
and 324 East 18th street, comprising
about $4,000 square feet.
Tho property was bought for the hos
,itsI through the agency of the Lewis
II Nav Company some months ago
from Winthrop P. Rutherfurd and oth-
arS The proposed building VIII be SIX
teen stories. At to . Livingston
place is the property of the New YORK
n;snensary for Women and Children
This section contains many historic
I'D familiar landmarks. AT the north-
anu, anu corner of 18th Street and Ruth
"rfmrd place is the Friends Meeting
UoUse the stone coping over the door
hoor;no houir the date Of 1860. North OF
tS;s Gen's Building is the Friends School, o., or
tnrS o;nsrv These red brick buildings
orc among the finest examples OF VIVA VIA
1ho trained building men OF seVeIa' f.
Jaco6es ago could do in their craIt.
Rn;lSings of this class are stsndihg