Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . g have been broken up tomake way for modern homes for modern people. The transforma-tion was very slow—the old estates died hard. But the people ofNew York were destined to have their place in the sun—and in theshade of a mellow old town like Flushing. One of the last to go was the Wallace homestead of 15 acres, in thevery center of Flushings best residential section. Mr. J. W. Doolittle,who recently developed a fine residential suburb—Douglas
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . g have been broken up tomake way for modern homes for modern people. The transforma-tion was very slow—the old estates died hard. But the people ofNew York were destined to have their place in the sun—and in theshade of a mellow old town like Flushing. One of the last to go was the Wallace homestead of 15 acres, in thevery center of Flushings best residential section. Mr. J. W. Doolittle,who recently developed a fine residential suburb—Douglaston Park nearFlushing—out of rough, hilly, wooded Long Island land, secured controlof this property. He opened macadamed streets, put in sewers, water,gas and electricity and other city conveniences. He has been successfulin disposing of many plots in Waldheim to leading men of Flushing,Long Island City and Manhattan, simply because he had the these buyers have built fine homes, some of them shown here. The show streets of Flushing, containing the finest residences, lawnsand trees are Bowne Avenue, Sanford Avenue, Parsons Avenue. Ash Street, Waldheim-Flushing 58 FLUSHING AND VICINITY and old Broadway—nowJackson Avenue. Wald-heim immediately ad-joins the first three ave-nues named. A glanceat the accompanyingoutline map will showits exact location, ar-rangement and accessi-bility to Long IslandRailroad station and Big Trees Abound in Waldheim the trolley Hnes Rather than attempt to word-picture Waldheim as one of the choicestand most charming of Flushings residential sections for homes for thewell-to-do—which it is—I prefer to print herewith the businesslike andtruthful statement given to me by Mr. J. W. Doolittle, whose office isin the Woolworth Building, New York: WALDHEIM FACTS Waldheim means A Home in the Woods, and it is properly socalled on account of the immense shade trees on all the lots. LOCATED between Parsons and Bowne Avenues, extending fromA
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