The New York herald., 1921-05-15
ADVISES CITY FOLK
TOLIVE In SUBURBS
Realtor Says in > Years New
Workers Will See Advantage
Of Country Life.

Tho demand on Manhattan Island
Cor more business space IS so insisteni
that the whole island Will soon become
simply market place. surrounded by
beautiful suburbs where people can
live and enjoy health, not merely ex-
ist." says Frank Crowell, president of
the Baker Crowell. Inc.
Tile suburbs is the place TO live. II
people do not believe 1t to-day. two
years hence they will have to see il.
One should not believe that moving 10
the suburbs eliminates the pleasures OF
Manhattan Island. Service on the cleo
trio railway is almost as frequent as
subway express service and surely more
comfortable.
within radius OF fifteen or thirty
miles one may leave the office AT .
o'clock. go home and dine and return
20 the city in ample time for the opera
or theatre. 1t takes no longer in point
IF time TO go from the Pennsylvania
Station to a suburban home in Great
Neck or vicinity than It does 70 get
from ones office 10 upper Manhattan
cr The Bronx.
THE cost OF living In the suburbs is
chearer than IN Manhattan Nearly
every village has its Manhattan depart
,nens store which delivers merchandise
free OF charge within a radius OF thirty
miles
Country Life More Economical.
For the same amount of money the
average man pays for rent In Manhat-
tan he can purchase in the suburbs
house with more and larger rooms. on
ground OF his own, where tho air is
wholesome This Is the ideal way OF
living because every dollar paid not
only increases the equity in the property
but becomes a permanent investment.
which. II properly located. year after
year Increases in value.
For the man whose first considera-
ton is his familys comfort. health and
low cost OF living necessities as well
as legitimate luxuries, the suburbs offer
so much more than the city that II IS
hard to make statement conservative
enough to carry conviction.
For instance, Great Neck. L. J.. is
the central village of the peninsula that
bears the same name and which Juts
out from the Wheatley Hills into Long
Island Sound just east of the city line
and fourteen miles from Manhattan.
The village Is also one OF the Oldest
and most interesting on Long Island,
being also the hub of such notable es-
tates as the Gould. Brokaw, Eldridge
Cord Meyer Grace, ". Sinclair. w. Isom.
"A
and a number of others that go to
compose a lengthy list of prominent
places. The locality Is distinctly pic
turesque and within easy reach OF the
business and amusement centres of Man
haitian and Brooklyn.
Electric Service Doomed Realty. /,
The effect of the installed third rail
electric service over the north shore Sec
ton OF Long Island has been the me-
dium of increased realty activity. Since
1918 there has been n substantial in
crease in population to this zone, and
the increase may be expected to con-
tinue as fast as new suburban homes
arc supplied to meet the demand.
'This enhancement is apparent all
along the line of the north shore 10
Huntington. and is not confined to Great
Neck, which locality, however. has had
the good fortune to be the centre or
conspicuous development enterprise, hav-
Ing produced number of notably at
fractive residential colonies within the
last five years.
The village proper is an interesting
enough place with its attractive country
stores, but the great charm OF the local
ity is the outlying part Of the peninsula
which projects into Long Island Sound.
distance OF four miles. with Manhas-
set Bay 10 the east and Little Neck Bay
on the west. the width of the promon-
tory between these bays being about
two and one-half miles. The land IL
rolling. with n moderate elevation and
well wooded The religious. educational
and social advantages are OF the best.
The principal denominations have at
tractive chapels and the schools are un-
cxcelled. the high school being espe-
cially well regarded.
Great Neck also is fast becoming the
criterion for fine architecture in home
construction. Among the houses al
ready erected are some very good ex-
amples of Southern. New England.
Dutch Colonial. Spanish and Italian
Renaissance, English half timber and
Georgian architecture"