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press, declaring regretfully that this Homewood achievement of the City and Suburban Homes Company is something that they cannot equal. “Because of its splendid business organization,” they say.

Another type of housing for lowest class of rentals is the housing of the Open-Stair Company illustrated in the previous article. Two of the four units, containing space for 216 families, were completed in 1917. This company pro- poses to erect two similar units, leaving a large playground space between, thus having 50 per cent. of the lot area occu- pied with buildings. This again, like the Homewood Apartments, does not occupy a whole New York City block. It may be noted that this group of apartments is six stories in height. This is because these apartments are located in a con- gested district where the inhabitants are willing to walk up five flights of stairs; on the other hand, the Homewood Apart- ments, located in an outlying district, are four stories high, because that is the

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custom of the district, which feels that three flights of stairs are enough to ascend.

The other developments come entirel) in the second class of apartments, not so large, but very important nevertheless, of salaried workers, executives, foremen, trades people and professional men whose family incomes range from $3,000 up to $10,000. In these great developments of the Queensboro Corporation, the use of the block as the unit has reached its full development, as the result of progress and experience gained in several huge groups, four of them constructed with a New York block, or a block nearly as large, taken as a unit. These four units are interesting to us, since the other early ones do not greatly differ from the usual designs of speculative builders. All these Queensboro Apartments are located at Jackson Heights, an outlying district, but

little built upon, and that little con- sisting mostly of two-story row housing, where the company owns a

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APARTMENTS, OPERATION NO. 8 OF THE QUEENS-

BORO CORPORATION, BOROUGH OF QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY.

Andrew J. Thomas, Architect.

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