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QUEENSBORO CORPORATION, BOROUGH OF

QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY.

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of land slowly each or two. mammoth is no less than a small city In the a community center with a building is already lished, churches are munity recreations, such as play grounds, golf links, gardens, are in operation on the corporation’s land, stores are pro- vided for, and other needs of a little city are planned for as they will be required This, truly, is city planning!

The buildings on 23d street, Operation No. 7 in the corporation’s history, are illustrated in these pages. This Operation No. 7, of which Mr. George H. Wells was the architect, is a well-planned develop- ment of block housing, with apartments and an ell containing

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along a wide front

6, Architect kitchens and maid’s rooms—one maid’s room for each apartment—projecting at the rear. The rooms are of fair size, with plenty of sunlight and good circula- tion of air, being practically two rooms deep. They are most comfortably and efficiently planned and equipped zpart- ments, ‘This group of buildings covers about 38 per cent. of the lot, and was completed in 1917 and 1918.

They are said by the corporation to be the first application of the garden apart- ment type of plan in the City of New York.” Neverthless one must feel that in plan they lack most of the essentials of a garden apartment. No row was built on the other street of the block, and hence there is yet no interior garden court. Furthermore, nearly all the rooms front on the narrow street instead of on

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