From the Newtown Pentacle:This is an interesting neighborhood, and it is where our Newtown Pentacle is headquartered. 44th street between 30th and 31st avenues is bookended by 1928 vintage Matthews Model flats- “model new law tenements” which fill nearly half of the block in an unbroken line of Kreischer yellow brick. There are 6 units in each building, with the 4 story bookends on each corner. It is a working class section of the ancient village, and it always has been. The surrounding blocks were farms as late as the early 20th century, and despite a long period of abuse and neglect beginning in the late 1950’s the current property owners are performing careful maintenance on these historic structures.
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My family lives on that block and bought the building back in the 20s.
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Built by an immigrant for immigrants. Never a foreclosure. Always profitable to own. Built like iron.
A formula lost.
Why is a mention of profit obligatory in commenting on housing? This mentality is behind the mortgage crisis - exchange value trumps use value.
Because when you own a 6-family house, you hope to make a profit.
Cute, historic but generally ugly ass buildings compared to others...a Welsh mining town in Queens.
But built to last indeed...so it's a great value to those that live in them...not like those multi family cardboard boxes they build today.
i live in one of the "matthew flats" buildings. windows in every room which was unusual for a railroad apt. during the early1920's. they are all still standing!!!
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