New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Two-F Familv House
Period i'll Queens
History Nearly Over
New Construction Largely
Apartments of Four and
Six Family Type; Short
age Is Responsible

With s3So0o,oOo in building con-
struction in 1890, record surpassed
by only five cities of the United States.
the greensboro Chamber of Commerce
looks forward to a record-breaking
year in 1921 in all classes of building.
Reports coming to the housing bu-
reau of the chamber show that almost
every builder in the borough is eSti.
mating on operations running up iulo
large figures,
Included in the housing plans are
a number of apartments and two
family houses which show q strong
trend away from the single-family
type, which has been one of the dis
tjnctive features of construction in
Queens Borough in the years gone by.
In the Ridgewood, Richmond Hill
and Long Island City sections builders
are turning their attention to the mul-
tiple family type, including large
apartments and siX-family houses.
The largest amount of apartment
house construction is going on in the
jackson Heights section, Jamaica and
Richmond Hill, along the rapid transit
line through Fulton Street, and are to
have many more flats.
Conservative old Flushing, which has
five apartment houses, will have at
lowed by others by the same builder, if
the cooperative plan of ownership,
which is having its first trial there,
proves successful.
Fashionable Forest Hills, too, is
adopting the apartment house type of
construction. The two or three built
there recently have been quickly filled.
In Long Island City it is said that
several property owners are consider
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number of these will probably be built
in the Thompson Hill section, where
Joseph p. Day recently conducted a
sale of several hundred lots.
In the Steinway section of Long ISL
and City Sol Bloom, who recently ne
Sotiated siXty-three- year lease Of
Schuetzen Park, property of George
Ehret, plans to erect apartment houses
containing GOO suites, in addition to
building theater. public hall, store
and office building.
To meet the great need of homes the
Rickert Brown Realty Company is
ready to build several hundred of its
model two-family brick houses in the
Astoria section of Long island City.
In the Steinway section the Math-
ews Building Company is erecting a
number of model flats. During the
year the company plans to extend its
activities TO the Thompson Hill section
of Long Island City, where it owns a
large plot on the rapid transit line.
w. r. Gibson is pushing work on 8
block of one hundred houses in Elm
hurst Manor, many of which have been
sold and occupied. The Cord Meyer
Company in Elmhurst and Kew Gar
dens and j. w. Doolittle in Little
Neck are also understood to be plan
E.ng for an active season.
a syndicate has been organized to
supply the need for houses in College
Point and is negotiating for several
large plots on which it is planning to
erect workingmens houses of three
and four rooms and bath. The same
syndicate also is planning to erect a
number of four-familys houses of five
and six room suites and bath.
A Mr.. Berghoff will give College
Point its first big apartment house He
has prepared plans for four-story
brick apartment housing thirty-two
families, located at Thirteenth Street
College Avenue and Avenue C.
In addition to this multiple-family
construction the indications are that
there will be great amount of indi-
vidual building of sigle family homes
throughout the borough within the next
twelve months. Real estate men re-
port that during the last two weeks
there has been considerable number
of requests for information by intend.
ing purchasers of homes.