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Muly AGjLIE REAE ESTATE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS REAE ESTATE sectios CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS NEW YORK CITY, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1937 Thatcher Raps New Building Code, Demands Showdown Commissioner Well, Which Shall It Be Suburbs or the City? Hits Secrecy; Others Protest Political Maneuver Seen as Long Dormant Issue Is Unearthed for Vote Brooklyn's Commissioner of Build 68 Units Ask Quick Passage Of Wagner Bill Institute of Architects Hail Housing Measure as Essential to U. S. Passage of the Wagner-Steagall Housing bill is "essential to the continuation of the Government's efforts to provide adequate shelter for a large proportion of the American people," the American Institute of Architects declared in a plea to its 68 chapters to support the measure. The appeal, signed by Walter R. McCornach.

chairman of the committee on housing, asks the president of each chapter to bring to the attention of Senators and Congressmen the endorsement of the basic features of the bill by the institute at its recent national cnvention in Boston. Resolution ent to F. R. The resolution adopted at Boston has been sent to President Roosevelt. ings, Edwin H.

Thatcher, yesterday demanded that the veil of secrecy be lifted immediately from the netr building code. The so-called "new code" ha1 been buried U'n committee" forsevea years until a few days ago when, to the surprise of Commissioner Thatcher and all others concerned, it was suddenly favorably reported upon and recommended for passaga by the building committee of th Board of Aldermen. Commissioner Thatcher does not know what comprises the code in its present form. Neither does th Brooklyn Real Estate Board or the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, i i i i i The proposed housing legislation is held to be "of great importance to although thse groups have been fighting clauses in it for several years. the country and to the architectural profession." The housing committee, it was an til Offer to Public.

"I'm from Missouri," Commissioner I 'Rll SAM j. 1 ygs. ABOVE Owner ofthls I I I nounced, plans to concentrate its efforts during the coming year "on the development of and co-oopera-tion with the Federal Housing Authority when created, to establish a workable administrative procedure." Thatcher declared. He wants to seo the code in printed form before it corns up for a final vote in the Board of Aldermen. "Good or bad," NrsggB i urns, ron wasmngion, is i i t- "There has been an accumulation of custom and practice over a period of years which has militated ngainst low-ren housing," it was declared.

"The responsibility for this cannot be placed at the door of any Goovernment agency, nor of the architects, nor of the building industry, nor of labor, nor of financial sroups, nor of land owners. 'Develop the Truth' he said, "the code must be printed in its revised form and presented to the public before a The new code, originally presented to the Board of Aldermen in 1928, will revolutionize the building ii dustry. Public hearings have been held at intervals since it was first proposed. Objection after objection piled up until a list 47 pages long formally prsented to the build ing committee of the Aldermanio Board. To real estate men, architects, engineers and prospective home owners, the code is vitally important.

The many objections made were to safeguard the variou branches of the real estate business. However, after the 47 pages of objections were given over to the authorities, nothing more was heard bv the interested groups. Whether "These practices that seemed sound during the golden era of the sf- i treated with a brand new view Hi 'Sx fm LrTj. i of the Manhattan skyline, Xgp' if J0mm which they see across Man- mMMfXZ "II SSff Vf-4 I hasset Bay and Long Island Sound. The home was re- J.

cently completed for Curt von I tjt rSai? Boetticher. LEFT This group of nfj model bungalows includes roof Iff gardens removed from the Ill street. They are part of a RENOVATIONS ON They're making small apart- i I IP development built and sold by ments out of big ones at this house, 1 Plaza to take i.lui,,, um. James Dorment and Robert care of the demand for "up-to-date" living quarters. II 1 Goetz on the east side of Ma- Charles Partridge Company, agent, is supervising altera- yf i 1 i.

rlne Park near Avenue U. tions, and guarantees plenty of room in the new rooms. 5 IssraiZ 1 It is known as the Park Towers Apartment. MMJinTM twenties, fro now on may not prove advantageous to any of the groups. An investigation of all the phases of the housing question should be placed on the high level of scientific research to deveop the truth, in order that progress from this point on ay be on a sounder economic and social basis.

"The history of the world Is recorded in the arts, and architecture is one of the greatest of these. Man's place in history is not fixed by his contemporaries, and neither Is his art. All fine works are so because or not the naws nave Deen iaen care of and the many deletions made as suggested, remained a mystery yesterday. Politics Hinted Real estate experts suspect a high handed political maneuver somewhere in the background and they are ready to battle any attempt to they have stood the test of time America's housing program should be carried out withoout thoughtless reverence for traditional forms, but with full knowledge that the accumulated culture of the centuries is make a campaign football of the code. Why It poped up at this time the onl sound foundation upon Is puzzling to many who have been following the measure for years.

wmcn 10 Diwa. Architecture Menarnl Edwin W. Kleinert, former Dep "The architect is not in nrh uty Commissioner of Buildings in Store Installs $50,000 Plant For Better Air danger from state architecture as is architecture itself. All art is the creative effoort of the individual this borough, and recognized as an expert on the proposed code, aid it is a joke and a tragic one at that. As a member of the building rode commltee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Kleinert analyzed the lengthy code from cover to rover, and cannot reach its greatest heights by anv other road.

Rpp. tliovon's Nintli ympliony would never nave been given to the world New System Distribute Dy group action. "The coming housins nroernm rip unearthing from its pages rulings he termed 'silly and ridiculous." serves sound architectural service One stipulation he pointed out was unhampered by the stulifying hand the section that would make it man datory for all home owners to re oi standardization which seeks tc pour America into a mold Nnrth Soouth, East and West alike in whatever style mass thinking may oevise even pernaps with lmporta tions from across the kpb 3 Million Cubic I'm Every 4 Hours a Day Shopping in McCrory's five and ten cent department store at 502 Fulton St. has been made more comfortable by the installation of the very newest system of air conditioning throughout the section of the building used by the firm. The new plant completed yesterday by Walter E.

Rapp of Manhattan cost $50,000. Moe than 3,000,000 cubic feet of clean fresh air are distributed throughout the first floor and basement sales rooms every hour of the day and patrons of the store are "We are just as likely to cover SHAPE Stone and clapboard dwelling of the popular shape plan, at 39 Kingsbury Road, in the Mott Brothers community, Garden City. Mr. and Mrs. Albert W.

Bihl were the purchasers of this home. place their tar and gravel roofs with "some new fancy material." This apparently was designed to erase a fire hazard, although none existed, Kleinert declared. hanges 'Insipid' Another ruling under the rode as Kleinert and Commissioner Thatcher last saw it, was that a builder, before putting up a structure, would have to bore into the group until he reached solid rock. Kleinert vis America witn untried styles as we are with traditional styles. Blindly following either course means that of we snau strangle creative work lasting value." Changing Modernized Area To a Shim In One Lesson 19 Homes to Open Air Conditioned Homes Going Fast Tea Additional Houses Bring Iluilt to Mecl Demand in Si.

Albans with all of the latest gadgets In Richmond Hill improvements. On a number of occasions, we visited this section and reported to the now assured of a clean wholesome atmosphere all year round, cool in the Summer months, with excess of humidity entirely removed and warm In the Winter with a proper percentage of moisture, to protect one from any danger of sudden change in. temperature. department the illegal conversion i ualized a boring job for a six-story apartment house in certain sections of the borough, where the builder would have to go down 500 feet be. fore reaching solid rock.

Of course, he said, sections of the code are "insipid" and i all probability are out of the revised iorm, but there is no assurance. He joined with Commissioner Thatrher demanding printed forms be tore a vote is taken. The Brooklyn Real Estate Board NEW IDEA This five-room solid brick bungalow with garage, a departure from the usual, was sold by John Zager, president of the John Contracting Corporation, for $5,000. It is on E. 54th between Glenwood Road and Foster Ave.

By JOSEPH II. FINK Secretary of Housing Committee, Brooklyn Bureau of Charites Much criticism is being levelled at deteriorated old tenements. "Slum" is the only word that can be applied to them today. While every eflort Is being made either to eliminate the rookeries through demolition, or bring them up to a higher staftdard by enforcing the of the buildings, and the frightful congestion as the result of the large number of occupants. To take the cases into court for Business Secondary Tills has all been done without prosecution will be a long drawn out affair.

While many couditons are known to exst, to secure convictions 10 Homes Rise the least interference with the transaction of business, most of the more elaborate work has been done after the regular business hours. law, nem slum areas, are being developed in other sections. Leonard Frank Jr. of (lie Frank-son Construction Company has announced that his firm lias started work on ten more "Reynolds specification" homes. These houses are goin; up the Parksidc development al 237th St.

Linden Boulevaid, in fct. Al-bans, and will sell from up. Some of the buildings will be located in Queens and in Nassau Count v. ue.icves tne city should amend the existing (ode where necessary instead of hea piling additional burdens and red tae on the shoulders of builders, architects, and In Coney Island, a housing de Operatng under the direction of Nineteen new brick and stone bungalows known as Pembrooke Homes at 105th St. and 101st Richmond Hill, have been completed by Anthony and Joseph Lom-bardo, and foundatiqns are now being started for nine more dwellings ill that community.

The homes are in the price class below $3,000 and the first group in the community was sold out last month. L. Danacher, architect, has designed the new units to Include heated garages, modern fully equipped kitchens and finished basement recreation rooms built-in bars. The location of Pembrooke Homes, two blocks from the subway, with sewers, curbs and paved streets already installed, has proved popular with home buyers. The builders are pushing construction of the new group to meet the demand they have encountered.

Mr. Rapp in the construction and installation of the air-cooling sys velopment began on a large scale about 20 years ago. These dwellings consisted largely of the three-story lor certain anegeo violations, direct evidence necessary, and clever law -yers know horn to tangle up witnesses. The solution, however, undoubtedly will be, and whicli we suggest, is that the department at once start proceedings to vacate the buildings, in that they are being occupied contrary to the certificate issued. nuwewr, it is generally jconeeded that the present.

1 tem wee II. D. Best McCaffrey as general contractors; the Brooklyn and basement three-family type, oc W. wpro the firl in lliis Permits Sought For New Garages Public hearings will be held Tuesday at the Board of Standards and Appeals in the Municipal Building, Manhatttan, on two applications to build garages in Brooklyn and a third for the construction of a gasoline station in Queens. The application for the gas station was made by Peter Wernsdorf, lesiee, on behalf of Elizabeth Blrecr, owner of land at 80-0." southwest corner of Cooper cupied by families who were fairly Iron Works providing the structural steel, J.

A. O'Rourke, plastering well to do. Many of them engaged domestics, who slept out, to carry on the household work. They came contractos; Carbondale, N. Company, supplying the air con market to promote real air-condi-j' 'V adopted, real estate turning ior completely detached Sr' a nm'mi houses in the Ie.ss-tiian-$.').00U price (iroups Against Passage range," said Mr.

Frank, "ami our. Usually, when a bill is "favorably experience has backed up our judg- reported out of committee," that 13 mcr.t 100 percent that the public to- d.iv demand- gri-a qualil.v in low- I ontinufd mi Pace ditioning and refrigerating equip ment; Charles Hartman Company, sheet metal; Ideal Electric Contracting Company, the electrical installation and connections; C. II 11 priced i are up to date In Queens Area Based on their steady increase in sales, Joseph and Max Spevack, builders of Holban Homes, have started work on 40 more homes in Queens. The new homes are on 1 89 1 1 i St. and Liberty Ave.

and and on 189th at the intersections of Rye Place, Hannibal St and Firewood Place. A new model bungalow, divigned by Arthur Fahr, is now ready (or inspection. With FHA financing, these completely detached brick and stone bungalows arc priced from $4,690. They contain five, and seven rooms. The 8tli Ave.

subway provides convenient access, bales during the last fortnight have been made to Joseph Licott, Charles R. Rininsland, Leslie A. Shepherd, Mrs. Winifred Praitsching, Francis J. Budd, Mrs.

Margaret Culver, William Selmcr and Emll Smith. New Project Started Since this power of the department has already had the approval of the courts, it will be the murkest and surest way of remeuving new menace, in an area built up entirely of modern dwellings. Here is an illustration of how, in a period of two decades, this paila'iilar area has evolved from a sen resort to an all-year residential (ii -trict, mnh all the potential factors of a "slum." Schulter, cooling towers and plate construction; William Originality Stressed In Country Building Ridnewood. Dominic M. Mrllo applied on behalf of Anthony Pas-saro, owner of 343-345 Union 80 feet west oi Smith for permission to extend an exLstlng garage at that address.

rvi sell houses in today's market. Tne firl group of a' opened about six weeks ago and are almost sold out. The new houses include several which Frank-sons have sold on contract during the la month, as well as exhibit models for sale. Prospective Buyers Inspect in Jamaica Hie builders of Forres' Curieij Iioines- on IfiTth St. between UT.li and 118th.

Ave Jamaica, yesterday reixirted that a large number of "I have found that the desire to The extension is designed to care express their own ideas in their country home is prevalent among a for five additional cars. An application has been made by surprising number of people," states Scully, metal furring, and the Whit-lock Coil Pipe Company supplying and Installing the pipe and cooling coils. New System LVd A 200-ton capacity refrigerating plant supplies cold brine for use in the cooling apparatus. No air is taken back from tl.e store and recirculated and evey cubic foot of air that passes through the conditioning equipment and distributed in the store is fresh outdoor air," said Mr, Rapp in explaining the system installed. Fred B.

McDuffee, engineer for the from a riLstant part of the greater city and the time consumed in going to and from their homes was over three hours a day. After a wide, they pot tired of making these long, daily trips and sought living quarters in the vicinity of their work. This created a demand for space, and the supply was found almost mmediately. Owners in the vicinity, sensing an opportunity of increasing the income from their properties rented out the basements as living units to these morkers. This occupancy was a violation of law.

Later on, as the result of the depression, some of the help lost their jobs, and so as to pay the rent they took in boarders, and according to excellent information, the boarders took in friends, for which the Greeks had another name, and the evil grew. Complaints were made. The Tenement House Department and the police began investigations The Coney Island Land Owners Association. became active, for it was considered highlyobiectionable since i the buldlngs are of the modern type, Harry Bach, builder of Bach Cus Homes Open Department of Sanitation, owner, for the construction and mainton Jamaica Firm (Jets 2 New Managements A. Kekemain, of 148-25 Httl-slde Jamaica, has taken over the sales management of the new home properties of the Bahnar Realty knowns as Admirable Homes, on 224th St.

anil Linden Boulevard, and the Nashville Homes. ance of a garage for more than five motor vehicles at 2302-2322 W. 9th torn Built Homes at Utterby Road and Lynmouth Court in Malverne. Of the more than 50 houses which have been sold, most of them have been built to order in over 30 different architectural styles ranging near Avenue W. prosiMTtive home buyers Inspected their model home over last weekend.

Two were mad" and several more are pending Forrest liarden are located a well develox'd reMdenti.il section twn blocks I mm Merrick Road, modern schools, churches ami ler The homes (oiitain 3. (5 ai 7 mum, with every modern They arc Hilly dc'ached, each on large plot with garage, if desired. Some models are priced as ns $." 100 with the advantage of LiO-year FHA mortgagee. in price from $7,750 to $10,500. It is the variation of ideas that does Ion Nashville Ave.

and Linden NearWorld's Fair Site The builders of Flushing Crest Homes, Benjamin Reinos and Samuel Berman, yesterday ami inner the opening of M) more hoiues in their project at 00th Road and St Mushing. The property Is located nr.ir luc World's Fair and consists of fi-room solid brick, stone and sieel bungalows with Rrage. Kacli fronts on a landsraied pe't and concrete street. so much to add to the attractive By LauBelton Builder Samuel Reizer, who Just finished his operation, Alden Hill Homes, at 222d St. and 143d Laurelton.

having only one house left, has just purchased 64 plots for a new project. They are located on Liberty Ave. and 185th adjoining Chappcll Garden at Hollls. ness of an entire community. Bach Homes are located Just a block from Two Colonial Style Homes Sold in Queens Pineford Homes, of which Simon Bernstein is president, has sold two of the five homes recently completed In the project located in the beautiful Jamaica Estates on 80th Drive and Kent Road.

Brooklyn Man Buys House in Westbury Harland W. Meistrell, Westbury broker, reports the leasing for the Summer season of 17 Butler Westbury, to Adrian Fredericks of Brooklyn. Boulevard, in St. The Admirable Homes are of the attached one-story bungalow type with five rooms, garage and nil modern improvements The Nashville Homes are of the two-story type also with five rooms. the railway station at Malverne and arp near elementary and high schools, stores, churches and the hopping district..