The New York herald., 1921-06-26
JFTWENTY- FIVE STORY FISK BUILDING, sf. .SzM
STREET and 6EOAOv~lNX ALSO NEARING COMPILE TON.
freq T. Ley ~ Co BuUoe~y,

tober l. 1t covers the entire block on
the south side of Fffty-seventh street
from Broadway TO Eighth avenue, with
frontages of 81 feet on Broadway and
100 feet on Eighth avenue. II will be
twenty-five stories high.
The Fisk Building is unique in the
sense that typical floors in the building
are 100 per cent. usable--with no waste
space and no dark corners. An analysis
made recently by an engineer shows
that 20 per cent. OF the rentable area
on a typical floor is less than twenty
feet from a window: 23 per cent of the
area, twenty to thirty feet from a win
dow, and Z per cent. within thirty to
thirty-seven and a half feet from a win
dow. Considered as a whole. the build
ing has $50 lineal feet of outside 'front.'
age, 400 feet Of which Is on three 100
foot wide thoroughfares..
When in complete operation. the
building will have the service of twelve
elevators, all OF which are grouped on
the south side Of the building. In such
way as not 10 interfere with the free
occupancy OF the rentable floor area
The building, which is of setback"
design, from the sixteenth to the twenty
ffth floor. was erected by Fred t. Ley
& Co., builders.
In Queens the outstanding construo-
tion event of the week was the an
nouncement by the newly Incorporated
Kew Gardens Corporation OF its plan
TO put UP n four story cooperative apart
ment building containing twenty-four
apartments OF four and six rooms each
with modern improvements. Larremore
V. " Sweezy has been commissioned
to draw the plans. The chief purpose
of the enterprise Is TO provide apart
ments for the principals I'm the Kew Gar
dens Corporation. The remainder of the
suites will be sold on the collective
ownership basis by Edgeworth Smith.
Inc, agents for the property.
Having erected. managed and sold
cooperative apartment houses worth
many millions Of dollars. the Joint own
ership Construction Company, Inc, Is
ready to undertake another venture IN
Bronxville. From plans by Mann &
McNeille the company will put up a
suburban apartment group OF six build
ings on a plot on the north side OF
Palmer avenue. extending from the
Bronxville Parkway 10 the BronxviIle
road. distance OF 42s feet. The depth
OF the plot Is $50 feet. The buildings
will be constructed of brick and stucco.
OF purely italian design, with tiled roofs
They will surround a formal garden.
-Four OF the structures will contain six
apartments each and two three apart
ments each. Tho apartments will con-
sist OF seven rooms and three baths or
eight rooms and three baths and will be
so arranged that they can bo converted
into single suite of fourteen 10 sixteen
rooms and six baths on either the sim
plex or duplex plan. All of the build
ings will be heated from n central heat
ing plant The main entrance 10 each
will open on the garden and the service
entrances on the street. Culver A. Co
OF this city and Burke Stone, Inc. Of
Bronxvillo. are the selling agents.
Manufacturer Quit Fifth Av. Zone
In It's effort 20 save Fifth avenue and
the adjacent theatre and hotel zones
from the detrimental effects Of tho ger
ment manufacturing trade, the Save New
York Committee has induced the folle<s-
Ing manufacturers 10 change the loca-
tion OF their business Feuer Costume
Company OF Q West Thirty-fifth street.
ID. Kohhn & Rosenberg Dress Company
OF 20 West Thirty eighth street. Nadel-
man & Schoenfeld. OF 27 West Thirty
fifth street, wallshein Bros. e. Baum OF
4s West Thirty-seventh street. Fanchon
Dress Company Of II West Thirty-fifth
street, j. Davis & Co. of 2s-30 West
Thirty-eighth street. George NJ. Piermont
& Co. Of 80 West Thirty-eighth street.
Zelenko a Moskowitz OF 1872 Broad
way and Rubin Bros. OF 10 West Thirty
fourth street.