Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed ..Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens; . roved with high class residences. Herealso is Douglaston Park, comprehending 65 acres on the crest of a highhill. III. THE CENTRAL PLATEAU: The Third division or zone of development comprehends several de-velopments of the highest class upon the central plateau of the island, in
Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed ..Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens; . roved with high class residences. Herealso is Douglaston Park, comprehending 65 acres on the crest of a highhill. III. THE CENTRAL PLATEAU: The Third division or zone of development comprehends several de-velopments of the highest class upon the central plateau of the island, in-cluding the summits of the hills. On the main line of the Long Island Railroad, nine miles from thePennsylvania Station is Forest Hills, the property of the Cord Meyer De-velopment Company, reached in fourteen or fifteen minutes ride and hand-somely improved. Lots range in price from $800 to Si,500 and attrac-tive cottages may be bought at from $5,000 to $10,000. The Sage Founda-tion Homes Co., organized to carry out the purposes of the ten milliondollar endowment created by Mrs. Russell Sage, to create a Garden Citywhich, by the use of ample capital and by conducting its operations on alarge co-operative scale will exemplify the possibility of creating homes in 28 Chambek of Commerce of the Borough of Fulton Street, Jamaica. artistic surroundings at minimum cost, has a development of 175 acres atthis point. Lots are sold at prices ranging from $800 up, while houses com-mand prices ranging upwards from $6,000. Kew Guldens and Richmond Hill should be considered together. Thisproperty has been artistically laid out, and from its hills one commands aview of Jamaica Bay and the ocean on the south, and Flushing Bay, theSound and the City on the north. The property is accessible by trolleysfrom Brooklyn and by the Atlantic Avenue Division and Main Line of theLong Island Railroad. The entire tract of 400 acres is restricted and thelots command prices ranging from $1,500 to $
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