The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 49

Real Estate News Classified Advertisements BROOKLYN DAILY EAG! SECTION Classified Advertisements IK i NEW YORK CITY, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 15)31. TEN CENTS Redemption of Williamsburg Section Plan of Realty Owners Residential Communities Crowding Old Coney Island Amusement Area I Uimnnm inm mumvm W)iwMtu)W'iil'imii1 i rsv -s" -wror frtff. kL 1 -''o rK i'Ci 1 I imhmmtHdA Launch Campaign To Wipe Out Slums In Williamsburg Active Week In Planning Big Projects Work Kearliing Proposed Apartments Lead Plans At Bureau Make Up Large Part of Total of Over for Past Week Home Developments Have Transformed Coney Island Area Boardwalk and Five-Cent Fare Changed One-Time Here is a remarkable airplane view of the entire area of Coney Island. At the extreme left is the exclusive residential colony of Sea Gate, fenced off at the end of the boardwalk and guarded against intruders by a brick entrance gate and turnstile. Adjoining is the thickly populated residential section of West End and the amusement center between Surf Ave.

and the ocean. The most prominent figure along the boardwalk fronting the ocean is the skyscraper hotel Half Moon. Standing out sharply in the picture is the apartment house development built on the site of the old Brighton Beach Hotel, Brighton Beach Midway and the Oriental Hotel, where the boardwalk starts. Adjoining this is the residential section of Manhattan Beach, with the new Summer amusement resort, Oriental Beach, at the extreme right. Rockaway Point is dimly shown in the distance at the mouth of the Rockaway Inlet.

Shows Cain in Group of Property Owners Organization to Stir Total Transaction Cost Public Interest in 'Disgraceful Condi' tion' of Old Brooklyn Section rianning is more active in the While there were a number of plans filed for small dwellings last week at the Brooklyn building bu Destruction of the slums of Williamsburg and the of new habitations and business blocks is the goal set by Summer Kesort to All-Year Residential Section-Sea Gate Still 'High Hat' By VINCENT R. KIRK If you haven't been down Coney Island way in a decade or so, a glance at the bird's eye view of the locality, shot from an airplane last week and shown on this page, ought to astonish you. reau, apartment house projects helped to carry the total cost of construction operations above the $2,000,000 mark, and surpass the record of the same period in 1931. the Greater New York Taxpayers Association which held a successful mass meeting Thursday night at its office, 754 nation's engineering construction field. Work reaching the proposed stage in the past week showed appreciable gains in three major divisions: public "work, industrial and schools.

For the week proposals in every class except highways totaled $64,072,000, which compares with $63,435,000 in the preceding week and $42,283,000 in the corresponding Apartment operations alone made Flushing to arouse pub-' Start New Colony In West Hempstead Fifty-four new homes are under construction in the Nelson Hansen development on Sunnyside up $1,100,000 of the $2,150,000 total considerate regard for the needs of lie interest in the movement. for the week ending Saturday. The $150,000. The architect is S. L.

Malkind. The building will accommodate 40 families. The Oceana Realty Company of the Bronx filed plans for six one-familydwellings to be built on a plot covering 490 to 508 Ocean Ave. The cost of the operation is estimated at $60,000. The architects are Bates Heindsmann.

Ten two-family dwellings are to the locality. The association's newly estafr West Hempstead, L. I. The lished branch office is to be used two-family houses and six-storjr apartment structures were built ia the streets back of Surf Building in Brighton Beach While the boardwalk has been a outstanding project is a six-story building contemplated by the Park Union Building Corporation of 401 Schenectady Ave. for a plot at 1174 Union 80x100, and estimated to The great stretches of vacant land you remember some swamp and a lot of it city dumping ground between the Flatbush frontiers and Surf the "Main St." of Conrv.

as the local headquarters from which the Brooklyn activities of the organization will be conducted. new houses were started as a result of the success of the builders met with in the development completed last month. Many of the houses in the original colony cost $250,000. The building was de week last year. Announcement by a large Mid-Wrst utility of a $15,000,000 program of power plant construction in Illinois, Nebraska.

Kansas and Oklahoma swelled the week's aggregate for industrial work to signed by M. Hirseh, architect. be built at Avenue and E. 45th St. by the Cameo Construction are now rovcred with thriving home Another project of the kind is a communities.

Six-story apartment houses have replaced Summer hotels six-story elevator apartment house to be erected by the S. C. Building Corporation on a plot 60x100 at 209 Avenue at a cost of $210,000. The were sold from the plans. The houses are located on Sunny-side between Jerusalem and Maplewood in one of the most promising sections of West Hempstead.

They contain all of the modern house devices to lessen the drudgery of housekeeping and make a strong appeal to the women folks. While not a bungalow, they com plans for this structure were filed The association is firmly convinced that the present situation In the Williamsburg section particularly is due to the fact that no concerted effort has ever been undertaken to point out to tli 3 borough and city authorities that Williamsburg has been entirely overlooked in the planning of major improvements for the various locations of the borough. in the matter of parks, Williamsburg has not a single one to Its credit or within its boundaries, and what is more deplorable, considering the density of Its population, is the fact that none has been planned or scheduled for it in the city's $30,000,000 park and playground program. To obtain these and other improvements for Williamsburg, the association will undertake to create the necessary sentiment among property owners. A determined contributing factor in the modernising nf th- Coney Island section, the five-cent fare and the extension of the rapid transit svstem to thn ocean has been the greatest impetu to the tremendous residential construction at Brighton Beach, whern land available for large apartmend operations is rapidly disappearing.

It has all happened in about ten years. Nothing now remains of the things that made Brighton famous as a summer amusement resort. Th hotels, the midway and the musio halls are all gone. AlthoiiRh it is only about four by M. Hirsch.

$21,755,000. Another large industrial project now in the preliminary plan stage calls for the expenditure of $4,000,000 on the first unit of a steam power plant on Utah Lake, according to the McGraw-Hill Construction Reports. School plans totaling $12,507,000 were ahead of the previous week Woodbridge Hall, filed plans for a six-story apartment building considered Tor a plot covering 1739 and one and two-family houses have crowded out the flimsy bathing bungalows. The transformation of the world's famous Summer resort was brought about by the construction of the ocean-front boardwalk after an act of Legislature in 1920 decided that the 9.000 fpet of shore frontage extending all the way from Sea Gate to Ocean Parkway became a "public beach." Then the old resort was delivered from the long string of bathing house rookeries and ramshackle piers that obstructed i to 1757 E. 18th and to cost "Must Come Bark," Says Berger The effort to create a "comeiback" in these old Williamsburg and Eastern District sections of Brooklyn, once very desirable residential localities, said Isador Berger, general manager of the association, and one of the most determined of the leaders in the clean up movement, "will take two courses.

"The first will be a vigorous campaign to bring more public and local improvements by the city administration to Williamsburg, in the form of a large park, better transit facilities, cleaner streets and other municipal activities. "The second angle will be an Intensive move among property owners themselves to improve buildings and stores in the business areas, and to construct a better class of apart- IUease Turn to Fage I Company from plans by I. Kalich, architect. The operation is estimated to cost $80,000. Gain in April There was an increase of almost 100 percent in building activity in Brooklyn last month, compared with the same period in 1930, according to figures compiled by the Brooklyn Building Bureau under the direction of Thomas P.

Flanagan, Superintendent of Buildings, and made public yesterday. The figures indicate that building activity during April reached the total of compared with $4,399,529 in April, 1930. Applications for building permits for April, this year, totaled 1,969, for 1,997 structures, while the applications in April, 1930, were 1,863 for 1,802 units. 1 000. The architects of this operation are Cohn Brothers.

bine the good features of this type of home and a two-story dwelling. The builders are greatly encouraavd by the increasing demand for homes in this progressive section of Nassau County. A six-story apartment house has and the same week last year. Large undertakings in this class Include $5,000,000 for college buildings at Drew University, Madiscm. N.

and $3,000,000 for the new Franklin K. been planned by the R. and J. Shore years since the first large apartment Corporation for a plot in Marine nouse in Brighton Beach, the Mir- near 91st in the Fort Hamilton section of Bay Ridge. The project is estimated to cost $215,000.

The Builder AssvHntinn nf Tan- SaS City, is planning a $6,000,000 builders' mart. The Federal Govern The Mintburn Construction Com Lane High School in Brooklyn, N. Y. Public work proposals took $9,469,000, Federal Government work $6,460,000, commercial buildings Sl.930,000. hospitals $1,325,000.

apartments and hotels $750,000 and unclassified structures, $9,876,000. amar. fronting the boardwalk, was completed by Realty Associates, more than 50 six-story apartmeni buildincs are in the locality today. Thev extend from Coney Island Ave. to the Parkway Baths, and they ac ric.ue Tuin to Pae pany will build a six-story apart and disgraced the suburb stretch of land and ocean frontage.

With the disappearance of these "eye sores" Coney Island came into Its own and before the boardwalk i was completed hundred, of one and campaign will inaugurated to bring about sufficient public demand upon borough officials and the Board of Estimate for more ment win talce bids after Mav 15 on a $3,500,000 earth-eravel dam at ment, house on a plot 80x100 at 25 to 35 Winthrop at a cost of Cle Elum, Wash..