Evening star., 1936-09-09
z, Limited Dividend Projects
Prouide Housing for II, 900
$40, 100000 Put in Building to Prouide
Lo'0-Cost Quarters-Progran, Begun,
in December. 1882.

IN number, are all six stories high.
There are 975 living units. Rentals
average $11 per room per month. Like
Hillside, Boulevard Gardens has had
an immediate effect on all surrounding
property by raising its value.
Philadelphia Project Working.
In Philadelphia q fine limited
dividend project. launched early in
1885, is now in practical working
order. 1t differs a little from these
other projects, as its tenants are re-
stricted to hosiery workers. The Of
ficers Of the corporation in charge Of
Carl Mackley Houses. as it is
called. are all officers Of the Amer
ican Federation of Hosiery Makers.
A p. w. A. loan of $1,039, 900 gave
the enterprise its start, the final cost
Of the whole being $l.153,697. The
largest part of the equity was ad-
vanced by the Federation of Hosiery
Makers, the rest by individuals.
Buildings and grounds cover an en-
tire Philadelphia block-480 by 400
feet. Again the buildings are strik-
ingly beautiful, though nothing more
than simplicity and strength has
been aimed at.
Each of the four Carl Mackley
structures. running in o northerly
and southerly direction, Is 80 feet
wide. 480 feet long and three stories
high. There are, in all, 254 apart
ments, comprising q total Of 1,085
rooms. The price Of q five-room
apartment is $5252 per month.
Smaller apartments rent in proper
ton, the two-room suites costing $27
to $50 per month.
Knickerbocker Village, on New York's
lower East Side, is not strictly
to be classed with the seven limited
dividend projects described above, for
it is not a P. w. A. project. But it
operates in the same way as they do
and its object Is the same-to provide
comfortable, sanitary living quarters
at relatively low rental.
Knickerbocker Village. the last unit
Of which was completed in 1884, Is
under the supervision of the New
York State Housing Board and is
financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, making Uncle Sam
in this case a part-time landlord.
The average rent per room per
month is $l2.50. The structure con-
sists Of a skeleton steel frame with
brick walls. All floors are Of con-
crete, with hardwood covering. In
addition to generous space provided
for children's Fairgrounds, the prop
erty has $50 by 100 feet Of garden
space, running through from street
to street.
OF these three New York City prof.
ects, Knickerbocker Village has the
highest proportion Of tenants in the
professional and semi professional
group, comprising 81 per cent of the
total, as compared with 181 per cent
in Boulevard Gardens and 1866 per
cent in Hillside. Boulevard Gardens
leads with tenants in clerical occupa-
tions, comprising q per cent of the
total, as compared with 216 per cent
in Knickerbocker Village and 14e
per cent in Hillside. Hillside has the
largest proportion of business men
statesmen, managers and minor ex-
ecutives. 1t also has the largest pro-
portion Of workers in manufacturing
| and mechanical industries-that Is
1877 per cent, as compared with lac
per cent at Boulevard Gardens and 81
per cent in Knickerbocker Village.
| tccpyright. 1896. BY the Noren American
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