. The Street railway journal . ince the burned car house on Flatbush Avenue, nearVernon Avenue, was constructed, the value of the site hasincreased greatly from the building up of the surroundingneighborhood as a residential quarter, and it has beenthought advisable to build the new car house, if it may beso called, much further down Flatbush Avenue. For thispurpose the old Suydam farm, an area of some two and ahalf acres on Avenue O and Platbush Avenue, was pur-chased, and ground will soon be broken and building boiler room, etc., is made of 4 ins. of concrete, as is alsothat of the shops in
. The Street railway journal . ince the burned car house on Flatbush Avenue, nearVernon Avenue, was constructed, the value of the site hasincreased greatly from the building up of the surroundingneighborhood as a residential quarter, and it has beenthought advisable to build the new car house, if it may beso called, much further down Flatbush Avenue. For thispurpose the old Suydam farm, an area of some two and ahalf acres on Avenue O and Platbush Avenue, was pur-chased, and ground will soon be broken and building boiler room, etc., is made of 4 ins. of concrete, as is alsothat of the shops in the rear. The two buildings will beeffectually separated by Kinnear steel rolling doors, whichwill cut off all communication between the shop and thefront building, making the passage of fire from one to theother impossible. Further potcction is fm^nished on thesecond story by equipping each window with folding ironshutters. The second floor will be divided up, as shownin. the plan, giving a finely arranged series of clubrooms. FRONT ELEVATION OF PROPOSED BUILDING street
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