As a Modern Woman Sees Hudson View Gardens
Emancipation From Drudgery of Housework Creates New Responsibility From Resultant Freedom
Super Apartment Are Necessary If Woman Is to Keep Pace With Modern Life
By Elizabeth H. Taylor
The New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, August 24, 1924
We have been hearing much and often about the freedom of women. Well, they have it now, and no one, least of all women themselves, regrets the good old days. But this freedom entails newer demand on them at the same time that it frees them from the old.
The Household Drudge Is Gone
Perhaps the old-fashioned woman – chained to her dishpan, the cradle and the store – was a drudge. If she bore children, fed and cared for them, was loyal to her husband and not too disagreeable to have around – no one demanded anything more.
Then woman discovered that she had “rights” – and got them. No longer would she be merely an unsalaried servant in the house. With the aid of all the modern improvements in household science it wasn’t necessary, and with the evolution of the home she found a larger leisure.
But this has brought to light a new and, to some, a painful fact. If the housewife needed no longer to be perpetually at work she found that she had to be attractive as a companion. She now was expected to be intelligent, interested in a thousand new ideas, well dressed and posses of leisure to entertain and be entertaining. She had to make home interesting if she hoped to retain the charm of the old form of family life.
Who Takes Her Place?
This remarkable change in mother’s status in the family would have been quite impossible without the introduction of mechanical assistants. When the maid of all work marched out to find another kind of job, in walked the machinery that does her work quicker and better. No woman think of keeping house nowadays without as many modern labor-saving devices as she can call to her service. She is more particular as to where she lives, for the [illegible] that her apartment shall be as easy to manage as her husband’s office.
Efficiency Apartments
It was one of Dr. Charles V. Paterno’s ideas in planning the group of co-operative apartments at Hudson View Gardens that they should help the modern woman attain her new ideal of leisure and a more intense life. These apartment realize the dream of every real housewife who wants to keep house thoroughly, to bring up her children in the most favorable surrounding and yet at the same time to keep young and attractive and to be the intelligent companion of her husband and children as their interests widen.
Mother Turns the Button
As for the mother of the family herself: Housekeeping at Hudson View Gardens is no trouble at all. Electricity is the servant in the house. Mother merely turns the button; now she has time to enjoy life!
Electric Dishwashers
In each kitchen is a stationary motor-driven Sani-in-Sink dishwasher set in a porcelain receptacle. Just put the dishes in, turn on the current and in a few minutes the worst and most frequent job in housekeeping is done while you dress for the theater or take up other more interesting work.
Gas Range
Mother will be delighted with the new range in her kitchen. Of sanitary white enamel, it has an unusual arrangement by which on burner can bake and broil at the same time. Good Housekeeping Institute has tested and approved this range.
Waste Incinerator
Garbage and other waste are instantly disposed of through a chute with an opening in each kitchen to a Kerner Incinerator in the cellar. This sanitary system provides no harbor for dirt or germs. It means less work and no annoyance of daily garbage collection on the dumbwaiter, on which foodstuffs are delivered.
HOTEL SERVICE A BIG FEATURE
Also Yields Profit to Tenant-Owners
A first class restaurant, beautifully furnished, having a fully equipped hotel kitchen by Doparquet, is located on the ground floor of the “B” building. Tenant-owners may dine here, or order meals served in their apartment. In summer months an adjoining garden will be opened where guests may dine in the cool outdoors, surrounded by flower and foliage. The food and service will be the best and the prices reasonable. It is probably that in spite of low-prices for fine food, the operation of the restaurant will yield an income to tenant-owners.
Steam Laundry
The laundry problem is solved here to the perfect satisfaction of all. In the first place every apartment has laundry facilities. Add to this a fully equipped modern steam laundry built by the American Steam Laundry Machinery Company. If any one is prejudiced against steam laundries, let him now reconsider. On the first place this is a private steam laundry, which can collect clothes any house any day, and deliver them the following day. Twenty-four-hour service. Clothes never leave the premises. The clothes washers and dryers are marvelous machines about which the public knows entirely too little. Monel metal is used because it is absolutely rust proof. Clothes are washed not by friction, as on a wash or rubbing hoard, but by the passage of water filtered through the fabric. The drying process is still more interesting. Good housewives like clothes dried with fresh air, and that is exactly the way modern laundry machinery operates. But instead of laboriously pinning clothes on roof lines, the workers place them in an aerating machine. A quantity of fresh air is pumped continuously through this apparatus, and your clothes dry as quickly and as sweetly as they would n a brisk breeze.
Now, laundry work is rather expensive, but not at Hudson View Gardens, where collecting and delivery expenses are almost nil, and no middleman is involved. It is probably that here laundry bills will be cut in half, and possibly that a profit to tenant-owners can be realized in addition to this. The cost of the steam laundry plant is included in the selling prices of the apartments.
Tailor Shop
A contract has just been signed with D’Alessandro with bring to Hudson View Gardens the same tailor and valet service that Dr. Paterno installed at 270 Park Avenue. But because this is a co–operative enterprise, prices will be popular. A percentage of receipts accrues to the tenant-owners, who, of course, own the space occupied by the tailor shop.
Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor
Details of this service have not yet been developed, but in addition to fully equipped shops, it is probable that service in apartments will be an added feature. Prices will be kept down, and yet tenant-owners will get back part of every dollar spent in their own establishment.
Maid Service
Well-trained house and ladies’ maids of pleasing personality are priceless when needed, but costly if their time is not fully occupied. Co-operation at Hudson View Gardens permits retaining and training a staff under the jurisdiction of a housekeeper, available by the day, hour or week. Thus every madam can have as much or little competent help as needed, at absolutely no expense when, for instance, the family is away.
Ironing Board
Each kitchen has a cabinet in which a built-in ironing board and stand are concealed when not in use. Of course, and electrical outlet is on the adjoining wall.
Linoleum Kitchen Floors
Cemented to the underflooring is a large tile pattern linoleum which cushions ever step while adding a final smart touch to these inviting kitchens.
APARTMENTS and PRICES
In Six-Story Elevator Pinehurst Avenue Buildings
THREE ROOMS — (Os ground floor.) Living room with efficiency, concealed bed and dressing room, dining alcove and kitchen. Purchase Prices, $4,050 to $4,500. Monthly Maintenance, $37.50 to $41.67
FOUR ROOMS–Living room with concealed bed compartment or dressing room, bedroom, either dining alcove or dining room, and kitchen. Purchase Prices, $4,200 to $7,550. Monthly Maintenance, $37.20 to $49.30.
FIVE ROOMS–Living room with concealed bed compartment or dressing room, 2 bedrooms, either dining alcove or dining room and kitchen. Purchase Prices, $7,300 to $9,100. Monthly Maintenance, $67.72 to $84.38.
SIX ROOMS–Living rom with concealed bed dressing room, 2 bedrooms, library or bedroom, dining alcove and kitchen. Purchase Prices, 9,300 to $10,000. Monthly Maintenance, $91.47 to $92.72.
In Four-Story Non-Elevator Buildings
FOUR ROOMS–Living room with concealed bed compartment, bedroom, dining alcove and kitchen. Purchase Price, $5,350 to $6,050. Monthly Maintenance, $34.17 to $59.88.
FIVE ROOMS–Living room with concealed bed compartment, 2 bedrooms, dining alcove and kitchen. Purchase Prices, $6,300 to $7,454. Monthly Maintenance, $64.97 to $72.94.
NOTES: Only half of the above prices need be paid at once, or when [illegible] is granted. The balance is paid in monthly installments over a period of about four years. Monthly maintenance payments include a gradual reduction of the mortgage, and also create a surplus.
COMMUNITY LIFE AGAIN IN NEW YORK
Dr. Paterno Provides Children’s Playground and Nursery, Commissary and Radio
In the typical small town there is always a friendly neighbor who will “mind the children” while mother goes out, but here in New York parents find difficulty in temporarily disposing of their responsibilities while they enjoy the pleasures of the city. In Hudson View Gardens children are not left in the care of kindly neighbors, but placed in the hand of a trained nurse or graduate kindergartner.
Playground
At Hudson View Gardens families with children have an acre of playground at their disposal. Here games and other pastimes will be taught and organized, the leader being employed by and accountable to the families she serves. This playground happens to overlook the river, and, of course, is enclosed with a decorative rail.
Enclosed Nursery
Infants offer a separate problem. The nurse in charge will be directly accountable to each mother. Her compensation will come directly or indirectly from the families she serves. Either each family with infants will pay, say, a dollar a month, or each mother will pay five or ten cents an hour during the period she leaves her baby in the nurse’s charge. This professional service will be a boon to parents.
Commissary
Three hundred and fifty-four families can support a grocery store as well as a nursery! And, while enjoying first-class private services, earn profit which otherwise they would pay to the corner grocer. Iceman and garbage collectors have been eliminated by automatic refrigeration and incinerators. Now we are eliminating clattering milk wagons – disturbers of the peace, which impartially awakes prematurely every member of the family. Grade A and B milk, in Hudson View Gardens, will be delivered by hand from the commissary quietly, promptly, and if you need an additional bottle any time during the day, just tell the telephone operator. Rolls and bread, butter and eggs, dry groceries, cigars, cigarettes and probably green groceries all will be supplied, and of the earnings of the commissary will revert to Hudson View Gardens tenant-owners who create this opportunity. Thus co-operation reduces the cost.
Radio
This Fall no one will want to be without a radio. The messages of Presidential and other candidates can be heard nightly regardless of the point at which the address is made. Radio in as great a contribution to society as are “movies” and automobiles.
At Hudson View Gardens a unique radio service is available to all. The installation was designed and constructed by the Western Electric Company. Four of the largest receiving stations ever constructed are built in a radio room, in charge of a competent operator. The living room of each apartment has four outlets, to which loud speakers or receivers, or both, are connected. Tenant-owners may listen to four programs at one time. It is probable that one receiving set will pick up all dance music, another all bedtime stories, another political addresses, and so forth. These receiving sets are most powerful and capable of picking up distant and foreign stations.
Postoffice
Dr. Paterno has had Hudson View Gardens designated as a postoffice substation, which means that insured parcel post packages, registered letters and all other postal affairs may be transacted on the premises.
The Inquiring Reporter
He Asks Three Tenant-Owners Why They Bought a Hudson View Gardens Apartment
John A. Droege, General Superintendents of a Great Railroad: “Living on top of Manhattan – that is to say, the highest elevation – on and overlooking the Hudson, unobstructed view and healthful climate with pure water, impelled me to purchase a Hudson View Gardens apartment, and I was further influenced by the 100 per cent co-operative feature – as I should have hesitated on anything short of that.
In general, design of the layout, in detailed planning of the rooms and in arrangement and provision of modern and auxiliary facilities and conveniences, this undertaking approaches perfection. The building were planned and constructed to fit the rooms they were to contain and in this respect are unique, because usually as apartment building accommodates itself to the land area available and [illegible] the rooms must be shaped to fit the building. All the advantages of a country life while within easy traveling distance of the great business center. The restrictions imposed are advantageous and reassuring, ad is the comparative privacy in not being located on heavily traveled thoroughfares or street car lines, while at the same time being within easy access of all.”
Thomas R. Fowler, Associated with the Henry Phipps Estate Organization: “For those contemplating a residence in New York City, I believe the co-operative plan of apartment ownership to be a practical solution of the housing situation. It affords a permanent residence at a fixed cost in a desirable community. Hudson View Gardens without question is a desirable community in a section of New York where land values are constantly appreciating.”
W. George MacTarnaghan, a Prominent New York Architect: “We like the altitude, some 300 feet above the river. We value the unsurpassed view of the Hudson and the Palisades from these heights. The high character of the development of this section has for some time been assured. We believe we will enjoy the community features of Hudson View Gardens. Last, but not least, we appreciate the attractive conveniences provided through the thoughtful planning of Dr. Paterno, namely the automatic refrigeration, the incinerator, the radio service, the electric dishwasher, and other features which contribute toward the ideal home.”
Prominent Builder Is Graduate in Medicine
Dr. Charles V. Paterno, builder of Hudson View Gardens, was graduated from Cornell Medical College twenty-five years ago. At the death of his father, also a builder, Dr. Paterno unexpectedly entered the building field. Dr. Paterno has an original mind and dynamic ability which predestined him to achievement in any endeavor.
TUDOR PERIOD ARCHITECTURE REPRODUCED
Early 16th Century Design Constructed of Same Materials
George Fred Pelham, architect of Hudson View Gardens, has not only recreated Tudor period architecture in these fourteen building, but actually specified the same material – Holland brick, timber, stucco, slate shingles and casement windows – in their construction.
Mr. Pelham readily adapted this early sixteenth century design to fit the larger proportions of the modern apartment building, which offer greater possibilities than some of the old examples of the Tudor period.
This architecture fits perfectly in this picturesque setting, a thing of beauty from the very first, not strangely new looking, and as flowered vines creep up the sloping sides of the picture will be improved.
And added virtue of Tudor architecture carried out in the correct materials is its perfect aging. Most modern buildings become eyesores unless periodically sandblasted. The reverse is true of Hudson View Gardens, where time will mellow these charming facades.
CO-OPERATIVE PLAN SAVES HALF RENT
Every Tenant and Owner – No Vacancies
The 100 per cent plan of co-operative ownership of apartments was primarily designed to reduce the high cost of living, which it accomplishes at Hudson View Gardens in the full extent. For example, a five-room apartment overlooking the river, with each room of Park Avenue proportions and appointment, costs a tenant-owner only half the price of normal rent for this neighborhood – $70 a month is applied to reducing the mortgage!
This is opportunity knocking at the door of those who are in position to make an investment of from $2,000 to $4,000, according to the size of the apartment selected. Those who now live in expensive down town apartments will find in Hudson View Gardens accommodations of the same high class.
The only thing cheap about this development is the price, which is due to two factors – the first, because Dr. Paterno has owned this property for many years and is his own builder, reputed to be the best buyer in New York; and the second is the application of the 109 per cent co-operation ownership plan.
DR. PATERNO”S OWN STORY
By Dr. Charles V. Paterno
Back in 1890 (? illegible) I developed a longing to build some day a house on the Hudson at Ft. Washington Point, which projects far into the river, commanding a beautiful panorama west, north and south. Often I would view the bank of the river endeavoring to select the spot on which I would ultimately build this home. On many evenings spent with my brothers and sisters I described The Castle we were to occupy some day, when my dreams came true.
In 1906 I had the opportunity to buy a plot 75 feet wide, extending from Riverside Drive to Northern Avenue, and at once prepared plans for a modest house. The building as finally planned was too large for the plot and it was necessary for me to buy adjoining land. I think built The Castle, which I now occupy.
Ordinarily one’s trouble would be over when a building is completed, but in my case the reverse was true. Here I had a beautiful home on a sizable plot, but surrounding me was much vacant land in which real estate speculators were interesting themselves. To avoid speculative building of cheap flats on property adjoining my home, I was compelled to buy gradually nearly twenty acres of land.
The acreage on the easterly side of Northern Avenue, comprising about seven acres, I used for many years for garden purposes. Gradually I began to visualize its possibilities. What a wonderful group of buildings could be erected on this find site, the highest point on Manhattan, overlooking the magnificent Hudson! Thus the idea of Hudson View Gardens was born.
On this site, November 16, 1776, the famous battle of Washington Heights was found between the Revolutionary forces and hired Hessians supported by British man-of-war. After severe bombardment the patriots were forced to surrender unconditionally. Proof of the ferocity of this battle was found in excavating at Hudson View Gardens, which uncovered about fifty canon balls fired by British warships to batter Fort Washington.
I am pleased that Hudson View Gardens is an accomplished fact: that it is truly an apartment community of the future. For many years I carefully investigated in this and other cities every modern and future convenience tenant would wish for. All this experience has been incorporated in these new buildings.
I hope all tenant-owners will enjoy the advantages of this community. If this is accomplished, I shall feel highly regarded for my efforts in this enterprise.
REALTY EXPERTS COMMEND HUDSON VIEW GARDENS
Joseph P. Day“I know quite intimately the charming and valuable site on which my very good friend, Dr. Paterno, has built his new co-operative apartments. I consider it one of New York’s ideal locations for 100% co-operative apartments. The face that Dr Paterno has initiated this project proves his soundness beyond question.”
Douglas L. Elliman “There is to the mind of almost every one a desire to own one’s own home, and when you add to this an absolute saving in your fixed charges for the home, the argument in favor of Dr. Paterno’s Hudson View Gardens is unanswerable.
The beauty of the site adds to the completeness of every details in construction, which only an experienced builder like Dr. Paterno could accomplish. The new apartment will prove irrefutably attractive to those who wish to live in this section.
In many ways they compare favorable with Park Avenue structures.”
F. G. Hobbs “Hudson View Gardens I the most unique community in New York for at least two reason. First, the beauty of its homes, and second, the soundness of the financial proposition. The apartment are marvels of completeness and convenience. And it is remarkable that ALL the benefits now and in the future [illegible] solely in those who are farsighted enough to grasp the opportunity which is offered by Dr. Paterno.”
WOOD, DOLSON COMPANY, INC., ARE SALES AGENTS
Hudson View Gardens, the most ambitious co-operative apartment development in the country, are being sold by the long-established real estate concern, Wood, Dolson Company, Inc., whose main office is in their building on Broadway, between Seventy-second and Seventy-third streets.
William H. Dolson, president, is personally active in this new department, assisted by Dudley Martin at the main office and Julian Martin at the field office at 183rd Street and Pinehurst Avenue, which is established in a pretty Piping Rock Model Bossert house.
Other “charter members” of the staff who devote their entire time to this interesting project are William Corbett, R. B. Johnson and N. A. Paul.
The field office on the property is open seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., although it is often midnight before the last interested visitor and salesman leave the office in charge of the night watchman.
Purchasers of Co-operative Apartments Overlooking the Hudson Can get Full Investment Refunded, Plus Interest, Less Rental Value of Apartment During Term Occupied, With No Questions Asked
The most revolutionary policy ever adopted in the real estate field is the decision of the builder and sales agents of Hudson View Gardens, co-operative apartments occupying seven landscaped acres 300 feet above the Hudson, to express their confidence in the project by offering each purchaser the privilege of withdrawing as a tenant-owner at the end of one year’s residence without sacrificing a dollar of his investment. In addition to refunding the purchaser’s investment without asking why or wherefore, interest at the rate of 6% per annum will be added to the refund check.
The last of a total of fourteen units at Hudson View Gardens will be ready for occupancy October first, this year. Some are already completed and decorated, and The Wanamaker Store has furnished three apartment for exhibition. On Jul 1, 1925, every tenant-owner, including all those who have purchased prior to this announcement has the option of announcing its desire to withdraw, to take effect September 30, 1925. No reason need be advanced, and the refund is not subject to any conditions. The retiring owner will receive a check covering the full amount of the purchase price, plus interest, less on year’s full rental value as recorded in the subscription agreement.
Merchants have tested the value of guaranteeing their merchandise to the full extent by offering to refund the purchase price of any article with which the buyer is not perfectly satisfied. The adoption of this sound policy convinces prospective purchasers of the confidence of Dr. Charles V. Paterno who conceived and constructed Hudson View Gardens, in the perfection and permanent appeal of his pioneer ideas. In addition, the unequivocal money-back offer removes the last vestige of hesitation in the mind of the cautious homeseeker and investor who, wanting to live at Hudson View Gardens and approving of the theory of co-operative ownership,, lacks previous experience as a tenant-owner.
Concurrent with the establishment of this money-back policy, the Wood, Dolson Company, Inc. sole selling agents for Hudson View Gardens, announce that in the future no apartments will be reserved, and that present reservations automatically expire to-day.
STEEP SLOPES LANDSCAPED BY CRIDLAND
By Robert B. Cridland, Landscape Architect
Hudson View Gardens occupy a commanding position on the crest of Washington Heights, the highest point on Manhattan Island. Decided changes in the ground levels on which the various buildings and parked areas are placed have been used to great advantage in enhancing their picturesque quality. The result will be that the full benefits of the natural beauty of the site will have been incorporated in the finished scheme.
The planting was designed to carry many lines upward from the base to embrace the buildings and give unity between them and the lower masses of planting. Steep slopes, where grass would be maintained with difficulty were covered with growth, contributing pleasing effect in texture and interesting variety in flower and berry. court areas were treated as more intimate garden spot than the rest, but with careful regard for the all-season aspect and with suitable dignity for entrance areas.
The park was developed as a serviceable plot for the children, affording shaded play areas, but so arranged that from without and above it is a satisfying expansion of the planting borders. A promenade walk is included.
Japanese Shade Trees
Shad trees are used to shade the street fronts, but are confined to the Ginkgo, a tree of neat, columnar habit, so that the beauty of the buildings may be partially revealed and that the view on the river side may be seen from all windows.
Hundreds of Trees Transplanted
The extensive variety in trees, evergreens and shrubs employed insures a variety of interest and beauty succeeding throughout the year. Native cedars of considerable height are used as accents. Flowering trees, generously scattered among the masses of shrubs, will add striking moments in the panorama. Many broad leaved evergreens have been used, which will be green all year. Many showy plants like the evergreen azaleas are included.
The steps required from level to level are made interesting, especially by the planting flanking them, including gorgeous trailing roses. The elevated tract along the river side is planted to make a naturalistic outlook for the lower apartments.
Good soil was available from a number of soil pockets in the rock. Additional soil was brought from Westchester County. Grass areas will be covered with sod of unusual excellence, also imported from the country estate of Dr. Charles V. Paterno, the builder of Hudson View Gardens.
Hudson View Gardens Constructed By 270 Park Ave. Contractors
Trouble-Proof Plumbing Tunnels and Electric Conduits
World’s Greatest Mason Lays 10,000,000 Brick
Cabot’s Soundproofing
Dr. Paterno’s vast background of building experience, plus his intimate knowledge of the qualifications of contractors, applied to Hudson View Gardens, has produced fourteen perfect buildings, built to endure and to be maintained at minimum cost. The original investment for such buildings is, of course, greater, but the added cost yields large dividends in dollars saved which otherwise would be paid for expensive and troublesome repairs.
On Park Avenue there are probably more fine apartment buildings than in any other center, and among them is the largest in the words, 270 Park Avenue, built in 1917 by Dr. Charles V. Paterno. In Hudson View Gardens Dr. Paterno has used substantially the same materials and contractors as in his former great project, which is occupied by millionaires paying $20,000 a year rent.
Soundproofing
Walls and ceilings in Hudson View Gardens look no different than others, but behind them, unseen, is soundproofing, manufactured by Samuel Cabot, Inc., without which no apartment should be built. Under every ceiling is a sound insulating quilt nearly an inch thick, supplemented with an air space. This installation is the most efficacious known and has proved highly successful in thousands of installations throughout the country.
Woodwork
Dr. Paterno has installed in Hudson View Gardens the same pine trim purchased from the same people – Kertscher & Co.. Attention is called to the fact that all rooms, excepting kitchens and bathrooms, have parquet floors.
Plumbing
A feature of Hudson View Gardens is the hot water heating plant, installed by J.L. Murphy, Inc.. Long lines connecting each building with the central heating and refrigerating plant in a separate power house are insulated in brick tunnels. Not a pipe is exposed in the basements. Hudson View Gardens was an opportunity for Mr. Murphy, president of the centers, to demonstrate his ability to handle masterfully a tremendous contract in a minimum allotment of time.
Electrical Work
The elaborate electrical installation by the H.F. Fischbach Company, Inc. is also a revelation. Here again it was desirable to connect all fourteen buildings for central control. Thousands of extra feet of conduits were laid just to save about two hours a day of the superintendent’s time. From switches within his apartment the superintendent may instantly control all hall and cellar lights with master switches, or, perchance, should there be a prolonged party in one building, he can leave certain hall lights on until the guest have departed. The 1,600 radio outlets distributed over seven acres also required special ability.
This work was directed by Mr. Henry Fischbach, who delivered unusual service.
Masonry
William M. Moore, the biggest mason in the country and probably the world, laid more brick at Hudson View Gardens than in any other single operation in his long career – approximately 10,000,000 in all. Mr. Moore is to be congratulated for the dispatch with which he completed these difficult exteriors, complicated by the introduction of rough stone, half timbered and stuccoed bays, gables and turrets.
Plastering
Plastering is one of the operations in building construction that could be speeded up except by the application of more man power. This contract, probably the largest awarded in New York this year, was awarded to a comparatively new concern, Volpi & Costvida, who, however, have been conspicuous to this field in New York for many years. To secure this contract and to have made good in its execution are two big feathers in the caps of these able and energetic gentlemen, who spent a great deal of time in supervision because each room had to be plastered to the complete satisfaction of its future unknown occupant, who, because he was buying his apartment, was sure to be critical.
Tiling
Bathrooms are tiled with white glazed tile set by Adolf Grant & Co., who have tiled most of the high class apartments on the East and West sides.
Otis Elevators
Dual control elevators in the Pinehurst Avenue buildings were installed by Otis. Because these elevators are operated with push buttons by tenant-owners, instead of by two shifts of operators, $20,000 is saved annually in maintenance.
White Dressing Rooms
In each living room is a concealed bed compartment or dressing room in which White door beds may be hung. This virtually adds an additional room to each apartment.
Todd Oil Burners
Oil fuel will be used to maintain the hot water heating plant, refrigerating plant, steam laundry, etc. This eliminates smoke and ashes. The Todd Oil Burner and Engineering Corporation is responsible for this installation.
Pure Hot and Cold Water
Corrosion in hot and cold water pipes is finally recognized as something every owner must cope with. Dr. Paterno was formerly head of the Anti-Corrosion Corporation which installed anti-corrosion equipment in hundred of old and new building. At Hudson View Gardens an elaborate plant, almost self-operating, treats all water entering the pipes, eliminating corrosion, and incidentally making drinking water more hygienic.
Honest material and conscientious labor in Hudson View Gardens [illegible] the prospective tenant-owner that the visions of Dr. Paterno, the builder, and George Fred Pelham, the architect, have been translated into material form which will endure beyond reasonable expectations.