New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
,r.der Zone Law Fourteen
BLOCKS Are Restricted
for Dwellings
Want Best Structures
o.s.r Exclusive Residence
s,x.st. on West Side, North
of14th ST., in the SOS.

.,lv streets on the West Side Of
..I.,.sn between Fourteenth and
~'.r',,ven,h streets which have been
..;,.sS exclusively for residential
-. are. with the exception Of
Is 80. high priced streets in the Fifties,
r,.ls,a Village. There are fourteen
= ,..iSence blocks in Chelsea, name
eighteenth. Nineteenth, Twentieth
%s.,,.v.hrst, Twenty-seeond. Twenty
,..h Twenty-eighth. Twenty-ninth
w. w. Tbirtieth streets, between Eighth
- Ninth avenues. and Twentieth,
:, Twenty-seeOnd and Twen-
49, streets. between Ninth and
,,,s values in the district have re-
-,i,,d A, about the same level for the
-, seven or eight years. There are
-,ry plots which can be purchased IN
>. restricted streets at prices eOns.d-
- nost attractive by real estate ex-
IA. In the last three years there
AZ. been only three mortgage fore
.I..u,ss recorded on property in these
..-,.,, Several investors have been
III 20 see the significance Of these
',,,, and to take advantage Of the OPP
,,,.un,.y which they afford. In the
-. TWO years six new six-story apart
~, houses have been completed in
.. district, so long given over to fur
,,,s.s room and boarding houses, and
g., more are in process Of construc-
Jaw These facts have been brought
!. T,bt by recent survey Of the
sisss Neighborhood Association.
H. regsrd 10 this matter the sssocia-
ron further says:
waiter Stsbler, controller Of the
Vs.ropoNtsn Life Insurance Company,
90 AZ 4 recent meeting OF the Chelsea
,i,,ninr committee OF the Chelsea
C.;,lha-hood Association that his COM
go believed in the future OF Chelsea
"a had proved il by making the loan
=, TIE three houses now being erected
!, Wes; Sixteenth Street.
aThs new houses contain apartments
~ rom three TO six rooms and bath,
,,;.h an average rental OF about $l3 a
room q month. They are generally
,s.ted before completion. Some old
5wsling houses have been and others
are 70 Be altered into non-housekeep-
ing apartments Of two rooms and bath
70 meet the demand for living accom-
rodations. Thou sands Of persons who
are employed in Chelsea, but live else
where, are desirous Of living in the
section. The opening Of the new Sew
enih Avenue subway, with stations at
Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-third,
TWenty-eigh.h, Thirty-fourth and For
.y.sseond streets, viii bring the down
town financial district also within ten
ninutes ride Of Chelsea residence
streets, and will make these exclusive
so-ne streets most desirable for homes
'or workers from the downtown dis
net
The section needs increased housing
ABILITIES Of the higher type, and needs
rem az once.
People applying TO the real estate
SCENTS in the neighborhood for apart
atAN are sent iIOu OHc nliH W "i
r.sr, only 70 learn that the nearest
hey can come 70 finding a home in
1slssa Is 70 put their names at the
I'd Of q waiting list Of forty or fifty
Xpons. The home-hnding bureau Of
Z. Chelsea Neighborhood Association
: in close touch with apartment house
Ertrs and agents in the neighborhood,
ut is obliged TO refer practically all
rplieants for high class apartments to
tlte or four buildings still unfinished
H the only places where vacancies
uist
"0n May ! there was not a single
Hetncy In any Of the six new houses,
a.. practically the same condition pre-
aled in all the other older apartment
,ssses."