. Review of reviews and world's work. THE STUYVESANT APARTMENT-HOUSE. The first building of its type to be erected in New YorkCity.) THE SUBWAY STATION AT THE CORNER OF TWENTY-THIRDSTREET AND FOURTH AVENUE. (This station is in the shopping district, and has direct tun-nel communication with retail stores.) ments were already being erected, and New Yorkhad been the possessor of a tenement-houseproblem for twenty years. Furthermore, thethree-story brick residence measuring twenty-five by forty feet, which was the original type ofspeculative private dwelling erected in NewYork, had already been g
. Review of reviews and world's work. THE STUYVESANT APARTMENT-HOUSE. The first building of its type to be erected in New YorkCity.) THE SUBWAY STATION AT THE CORNER OF TWENTY-THIRDSTREET AND FOURTH AVENUE. (This station is in the shopping district, and has direct tun-nel communication with retail stores.) ments were already being erected, and New Yorkhad been the possessor of a tenement-houseproblem for twenty years. Furthermore, thethree-story brick residence measuring twenty-five by forty feet, which was the original type ofspeculative private dwelling erected in NewYork, had already been generally superseded bythe twenty, or even the fifteen-by-fifty, brown-stone dwelling, which was frequently four storieshigh, and which was one of the worst types ofresidence ever erected in large numbers in thiscountry. Nevertheless, well-to-do people hadnot as yet begun to feel to any considerable ex-tent the pinch of costly land, and the buildingof that date indicates very well the manner inwhich the New Yorker could then afford to
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