PULASKI SQUARE - JONES STREET

■ 46 Buildings stabilized (restored or in process)

* 38 Units reclaimed through Historic Savannah

... it was a 13-acre deteriorating, near-slum neighborhood. It is now being reclaimed.

46 buildings have been stabilized ...

38 were reclaimed by Historic Savannah

28 of the 38 through direct purchase for resale

another 10 influenced by Historic Savannah's efforts since the program's inception.

THIS WAS DONE IN ONLY 18 MONTHS!

<table><tbody><tr><td>A rod is 16½ feet.</td><td rowspan="2">80 rods.</td><td rowspan="2">10 chains.</td><td>330 ft.</td></tr><tr><td>A chain is 66 feet or 4 rods.</td><td>5 acres. 5 acres</td></tr><tr><td>A mile is 320 rods, 80 chains or 5,280 ft.</td><td rowspan="2">20 acres.</td><td>5 ch. 20 rods</td></tr><tr><td>A square rod is 272¼ square feet.</td><td>40 rods.</td></tr><tr><td>An acre contains 43,560 square feet.</td><td rowspan="3">80 acres.</td><td>10 acres.</td></tr><tr><td>“ “ “ 160 square rods.</td><td>660 feet.</td></tr><tr><td>“ “ is about 2083¼ feet square.</td><td>10 chains.</td></tr><tr><td>“ “ is 8 rods wide by 20 rods long, or any two numbers (of rods) whose product is 160.</td><td rowspan="2">40 acres.</td><td>80 rods.</td></tr><tr><td>25x125 feet equals .0717 of an acre.</td><td>1,320 feet.</td></tr><tr><td>CENTER OF 20 chains.</td><td colspan="2">SECTION.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Sectional Map of a Township with adjoining Sections.</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>31</td><td>32</td><td>33</td><td>34</td><td>35</td><td>36</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>18</td><td>17</td><td>16</td><td>15</td><td>14</td><td>13</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td><td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>25</td><td>30</td><td>29</td><td>28</td><td>27</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>31</td><td>32</td><td>33</td><td>34</td><td>35</td><td>36</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td colspan="8">160 acres.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="8">40 chains, 160 rods or 2,640 feet.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Inwood
Planning
Study

Yale School of Architecture
Spring 1975

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Building code violations are not a fool proof indicator of building conditions. Due to a shortage of qualified housing inspectors, inspections are not made on a regular schedule but on request of tenants, HDA, etc. In addition, there is no differentiation between violations according to their seriousness. Nevertheless, they do provide a generally accurate picture of housing deterioration. Extensive code violations coincide with: 1) the Early New Laws; 2) a younger, poorer, largely minority (black and Spanish-speaking) population; and 3) proximity to the el and the Dyckman Houses (public housing). On the whole, conditions begin to deteriorate as one moves east of Broadway, worsening markedly when one crosses Sherman Avenue.

1975
Code
Violations

HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION

Office of Programs and Policy
Neighborhood Preservation Program

Basic Model for Area Housing Office Organization

Crown Heights

Washington Heights

West Tremont

Clinton

Bushwick

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EXECUTIVE ORDER #80

May 23, 1973

CREATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION PROGRAM

WHEREAS, preservation of City neighborhoods is critically important for the welfare of all the people of the City of New York and must be given highest priority among governmental actions; and

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the City that existing housing stock and residential neighborhoods be maintained and, where necessary, rehabilitated to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing for the people of the City;

NOW, THEREFORE, by the power vested in me as Mayor of the City of New York, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section I. Creation and Goals of Neighborhood Preservation Program

There is hereby established a Neighborhood Preservation Program:

(a) To prevent the deterioration and abandonment of housing in transitional neighborhoods.

(b) To preserve, coordinate and concentrate maintenance efforts by the City in designated neighborhoods.

(c) To promote private investment in housing in those neighborhoods.

(d) To coordinate governmental and community activities for neighborhood preservation through decentralized neighborhood offices and to provide adequate public investment to support coordinated improvement programs.

(e) To promote community involvement in all such activities.

2. Designation of Neighborhoods

(a) The Housing and Development Administration and City Planning Commission will conduct studies in consultation with Community Boards and other community representatives to determine which neighborhoods should be designated as Neighborhood Preservation Areas and will develop appropriate programs for each neighborhood so designated.

(b) The City Planning Commission shall adopt resolutions, following public hearing, designating neighborhoods as Neighborhood Preservation Areas in accordance with the criteria set forth below.

The Osborne
205 West 57th Street

Architect: James E. Ware

Builder: Thomas Osborne
John Taylor

Built: 1885

Addition: 1910

Architect: Taylor and Levi

Builder: Taylor, Freeman and Ely

Due to its proximity to Carnegie Hall and its solid, sound-resistive construction, The Osborne has long housed musicians and others in the arts in a heavily rusticated Renaissance palazzo style. The building was begun by Thomas Osborne, a stone contractor, and was completed by John Taylor, a hotel operator, after Osborne went bankrupt. The interiors are ponderously lavish, with extensive mahogany woodwork, bronze mantels, crystal chandeliers and elaborate parquet flooring. The entrance lobby, ornately decorated in marble and stone, includes mosaic-encrusted walls, bronze bas-relief sculpture panels and two sweeping staircases. The front section of the building contains the major rooms of each apartment, with 15-foot ceilings. The service and sleeping rooms in the back have 8-foot ceilings providing semi-duplex apartments. In 1910 a narrow extension was placed on the building (so skillfully that it is virtually indistinguishable from the original building) containing additional bedrooms for the extreme westerly apartments. The plan shown below is from that period. In more recent years many of the apartments have been subdivided, the entrance portico removed and the first floor converted to stores. One of them, The Grenoble Market, is a remnant of a contemporary hotel of that name which formerly stood across the street from The Osborne.

REAR APARTMENT

FRONT LEFT
APARTMENT

FRONT RIGHT
APARTMENT

The two front railroad apartments are typically arranged with the main entrance from the hall into the kitchen in the rear, two tiny bedrooms toward the front, and the living room facing the street. The bathroom opens directly off the kitchen to the back. In order to reach the living room from the kitchen, one must pass directly through both bedrooms. The living room is the only room to have adequate light, air or a view outside. Both bedrooms share a tiny airshaft with the adjacent building, and the kitchen and bath have windows onto a small interior courtyard.

The history of pestilence
in New York City

Over the years New York City's death rate rose and fell with the irregular arrival of epidemic diseases. With improvements in sanitation and public health, including the pasteurization of milk, the death rate leveled off after the influenza epidemic of 1918-20 and stayed essentially flat for more than half a century. Now the AIDS epidemic is beginning to send the death rate up again.

Source: New York City Department of Health

Chapter 9: Case Histories in Rehabilitation

1. 10 Academy Street, Jack Libero, owner-occupant, 4 dwelling units, no mortgage, 1959 assessment: $11,470, 1963 assessment: $12,880.

Estimated Rehabilitation Improvement — $22,000

Roof new

Wall painting and trim

Cornice replacement

Window repair

Gutter and downspout replacement and repair

Foundation repair

Porch and step replacement

Shutters, ironwork, and other decorative features

Auto garage repair

Driveway replacement

Landscaping

Fire escape

Decoration on interior

Interior alteration, extensive

Electrical outlets.

Jack Libero, a young New Haven beautician, says, "I love living in the city and walking to work." He and his wife and children didn't like the suburbs, so they came back to Wooster Square where they had grown up, and Jack bought this four-family house facing the square. The house was once a fine mansion, but not in 1958. Mr. Libero spent over $22,000 of his own money on this house, and he's delighted. "I've got a beautiful home and a good investment at the same time."

It was Mr. Libero's idea to remove the upper and lower porches. This meant creating an entirely new window to replace the second floor door — thus the elaborate old lintels could not be saved. The staff tried to persuade Mr. Libero to install wooden columns, in keeping with the Greek Revival house (See historic photograph Page —), but he was very interested in having wrought iron. All in all, it is a good rehabilitation job, and the inside is even more im-

10 Academy Street Before

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THE NCNB CDC: AN EARLY, BUT STILL WORKING, MODEL

The North Carolina National Bank's (NCNB's) CDC was the earliest community development corporation to focus on urban redevelopment. A subsidiary of NCNB formed in 1978, this nonprofit corporation initiated and participated in the revitalization of Charlotte's Fourth Ward, which, at the turn of the

4-3 The Poplar, a $2.8 million condominium conversion in Charlotte's Fourth Ward.

4-4 Charlotte's Fourth Ward in the foreground, redeveloped through funding by the NCNB CDC.

century, was one of the city's most fashionable neighborhoods. To revitalize the neighborhood, existing properties were renovated, new units built, and below-market mortgages provided. The original $700,000 loan fund grew to more than $25 million, and the tax-assessed value of the area increased by $14 million between 1974 and 1981. By 1981, more than 1,400 new residents were living in the Fourth Ward.

Since then, the NCNB CDC completed several affordable housing projects, entering into commercial ventures as a strategy for subsidizing affordable housing. Gateway Center, located at the entrance to downtown, for example, includes office and retail space. A companion project, an eight-story hotel was built as well. The CDC also manages the historic City Market, a downtown farmers' market that had fallen into disrepair. City Market is now home to 55,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 17,000 square feet of office space.

emeryville
warehouse

140 live/work loft community

1500 park ave

## EMERYVILLE is set to BOOM

Once a 19th century industrial center of iron works and railroads, Emeryville is rapidly evolving into a **living and working town** of the information age.

The location: across the bay from San Francisco, a few minutes from Oakland, the airport, BART and CalTrain (to Silicon Valley).

The resources: **original warehouses** and historic buildings — ideal for refurbishing into the kind of large live/work spaces sought after today. Movie theaters, restaurants and diverse stores (from discount to luxury) are being built. **Pedestrian and bicycle** access as well as the “Emery-Go-Round” shuttle service make it easy to get to BART or just “around town.”

Put it all together and you have the **best housing opportunity** in the Bay Area. Those who move into the lofts at **emeryville warehouse** are positioned to benefit from what Emeryville is about to become.

This is not an offer to sell, but is intended for information only. In a continuing effort to improve the lofts, the developer reserves the right to make modifications in materials, specifications, plans, designs, scheduling and delivery of the lofts without prior notice.

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## Live/Work Lofts.

It's a new style of urban living. The 127 lofts in San Francisco's historic ClockTower Building bring together a new live/ work community of creative, diverse people. Entrepreneurs, artists, designers and a wide range of urban homesteaders are drawn to both the practicality and romance of loft living. Become a part of this dynamic San Francisco live/work community.

Now is the time.

CLOCKTOWER
BUILDING

The Clocktower Building was originally constructed in 1907 for the Max Schmidt Lithograph Co., a printing firm that designed and produced the classic California fruit box labels and posters for the Panama Pacific International Expedition.

The ClockTower is comprised of three adjoining buildings - the Courtyard Building and two Tower Buildings. The redesign unifies these three original spaces into one environment. Two elevators and a dramatic stairway lead to the 127 lofts that span 6 floors.

This is a general description of units and layouts. In a continuing effort to improve each loft, the developer strives for the right to make modifications in materials, specifications, price, plans, design, scheduling and delivery of the lofts without prior notice. Please see sales person for specific information.

Many lofts offer spectacular views of The Bay and The City through tall, dramatic industrial windows.

The main entrance to the ClockTower brings you into an urban oasis - a palm-studded, lushly landscaped central courtyard. Two other interior courtyards also bring the outdoors in. Sunlight streams into every loft through skylights, glass block walls, or large-paned windows that open to the courtyards or to the city.

The finishes in the ClockTower lofts are as well-designed as the building itself. Kitchens feature maple cabinets and Jenn-Air appliances, and bathrooms have tile floors, unique fixtures and colored concrete countertops designed by artist Buddy Rhodes.

Double Plus Loft

Ranging in size from 550 to 1900 square feet, the ClockTower lofts provide a range of floor plans for creating your own unique environment. Lofts have ceiling heights of 12 to 20 feet, allowing ample space for the platform or mezzanine bedroom areas. An on-site design center serves as a resource for you to express your individual style.

Tower Loft

PULASKI SQUARE - JONES STREET

* 46 Buildings stabilized (restored or in process)

46 buildings have been stabilized...