Large Supply -and 'Wide Variety oiinbifses Awaiting Apartment Seekers this ear. igures Show the Extent of Construction Movement Since Heights The Increased demand for anartments In Manhattan is clearly shown In the striking growth In the number of new apartment bulldinzs in tu w. ouau curing tne Itrst half of 1000, from -an. iu juiy as compared with the number of new buildings for the same period last year. From a total of 117 new apartment nouses, flats, and tene-1 ments for the first six months ot the number has lncretsed to 3t2.

a net gain of 1.18 per cent, in 19uU. while the number of new apartments provided has from 3 3S9 to W.TM. a gain -oi As alnst a total cost 'of U1.13l.jX for -tne new-buildings In the si nu oi niw, tne total cost for the earn period in 10 waa S37.7o2.000. an ncreae.of pr cent. By far the larger part of the building boom In both 1 1 upon Washington Heights; which claimed nearly ti nr nt th new buildings In the first or 1008 and nearly 7." per cent, in the same period VJV.l.

ine fllStPlrt north nt IV, Street alone came In for 211 per cent, of iVbcrru.sh'T.enUre building growth In andfor 51 per cent, in the first half yenr of 118 following table shows In comparison the distribution of the new apartment. mi i-mnent ouiitiings erected in Manhattan from Jan. 1 to July 1, in 190S and ltXKl. the dlirln. tiin tudlnally by the crosstown streets named, and longitudinally by Fifth Avenue.

The buildings and apartments in each Instance aow tne percentage in which each dia- Medford Apartments, Recently Completed on Broadway Block Front, Be tween 163d and trlct shared in the borough's building growth. The figures do not include th building plana filed so extensively by builders during the month of July, -when the- effort to forestall the restrictions of the proposed new Building Code led to an abnormal Increase in paper build ing activity. ine 1 igures ot ma taDie show buildings actually completed or In process of construction. NUMBER OF BUILDINGS. P.O.

1909. PC. 1.8 3 DO 3114 25. 82 6 1. OS Below 14th Kast.

14 11.96 11.11 4.25 .85 8.40 1.70 35. RS 29. 76 18 4 12 11 10 7H 1ST BpIow 14ih 13 ntn tr Kast. 1 l-Uh to iWih West. 5 5ft to 110th 8U.

East. 1 3tth to 110th West. 4 I HKh to l.V.th BC. Kat 2 lloih to lDJUh West 42 North of 135th 33 Manhattan ...117 302 NUMBER OF APARTMENTS. lftoa.

P.C. lftOB. P.C. 4.M 1.IW 1.24 4.10 4.01 2.42 2A.34 J1 Blow 14th 323 9.53 Below 'West. .40 12.39 1R2 14th to KltD 30 .88 134 14th to West.

144 4.33 Iff! 5Uth to 110th East. 100 2.1KJ 443 5Mth to lloth Wet.207 e.io 4.13 llOth to 155th Eut. 32 .94 iW2 110th to 155th. west.l.zia ss.sa 2.842 North of 155th 813 20.94 5.815 3.389 10.78 The cost of the new apartment buildinrs for the same periods, as distributed among the various districts, la shows in the following table: ioo 1SK.9. ftlNI.OOO 1MMHMJ 373.I0H) 1.102 OIK) 3UV.C0H lt.40!,Ot.) 21.5U7.00u Below 14th.

East S7S5.O00 Below 14th. Wnt 4K4.0KO 14th to Oilth, Kast. 44I.OOO 14th to 5Wh. West 8:15.000 to 110th. 100.000 With to 110th.

West aoo.nm lloth to 155th. East 4S.O00 110th to 155th. 6.14.S.0OO North of 155th 3.2M.5GO Manhattan $11,131,500 S3T.702.ono New Buildings Generally of Better of new anartments Is. or course. The Heights are firsthand there Is no second.

The of the strong movement of apartment dwellers to Washington Heights aeem to be tho newer and more modern type of moderate-priced apartments to be found there, the healthy altitude ot the section, its Subway facili ties, and chiefly, perhaps, the encroacn-tnent of lower east" side and lower west side tenants upon thd Harlem aectlon. MOVING TO NEWER DISTRICTS. We have noted a strong migration frony Harlem, especially the Lenox Avenue district, to Washington Heights," said Dudley Phillips of L. J. Phillips Co.

Tha change Is ascrlbable to the northward movement of those formerly living on the lower easft and west sides, -ana also to the influence of the growing negro settlement near Lenox Avenue knd Street. Moreover, there Is always the additional inducement of living in newer and more modernly equipped apartment on tho Heights. Because of this fact, many tenants of the llariem 'section, who have been paying from J0 to per room, are willing to pay S3 and $Sa0 for somewhat smaller accommodations on the Heights. We are getting a larger number of apartment dwellers on the Heights from the Seventies. Eighties, and Nineties also.

Small four and five room apartments seem to be most In demand, bringing from to rental per month: but there have been a great number ot 1 6.1th Streets. leases for eight-room apartments at from Sl.tttO to a year. There has been a strong settlement of out-of-town people, especially Westerners, on the Heights, these people seeming to prefer apartment homes at moderate cost in Manhattan to private homes In the suburbs. "The quality of the apartment houses erected on the Heights tola year likewise I Fowler Court, One of Drive's 'n rV: '11- i-'-S8i I I January Prominence of the shows an advance over that of the rre-ceMcg year. The nw structure, while still for the most part of "the six-atory type.

ar built on larger plots, by expert- enced builders who have constructed apartment houses on Central Park VVeit and the oider west side district, and the houses generally are better built and ef a more modem type. A large number ef ten and twelve story-apartment houses -are likewise In course of construction." As was to have, been expected, renting has rot yet come abreast ot the building activity in the case-of the Helehts aport-nienta. Although the condition by no means warrants the feeling that the Heights have been even temporarily vr- ninit. tne numDer or new nouses 19 anen that some agents say that the granting of rent concessions in some case Is ykely to develop as tne season advances. Part ly on this account, and partly because of the constant desire to live in tha new biiildinira.

there has been noted a continuous shifting of tenants from one cart of the Heights to another, though few. It One prominent broker and agent stated yesterday that, the rentable space i of Heights apartments Is larger this year than last. It in believed, however, that with the beginning of the renting season. In October, this state cf things will be considerably Many of the new buildings, arnon them -the Cromwell Apartments at l.Vtth Street and Riverside Drive, are reported as having no avail-able space after Oct. 1, and there are said to be no vacant stores in the" grouad floors along upper Broadway' from 138tn to lir.th Streets.

AROUND 181ST STREiyr The chief- building activity Ju tha Heights has centred around the Subway stations at ISlst Street and 157th Street, while the new station to be opened at-190th Streat has already stimulated development there. The comparatively slight development around the 168th Street Subway Station, on the other hand. Is ascrib-able In part to the close proximity of the baseball grounds and to restrictions -placed upon a large portion of the property west of Broadway at that point by the old Ward estate. Besides the Heights, one other section of the city, the west side, has shown much activity, in the bttudinf and leasing of apartment houses during the last half-year. This activity has manifested Itself chiefly In.

the district between Eightieth and 100th Street and Riverside Drive and Broadway. as well, aa In the section about Momingslde Park and Cathedral -Heights. As compared with the erection of only two or three, large apartment houses of the Apthorp or Her.drik Hudson typo In 1JXW. the present year has seen the erection of the Belnord. the largest apartment building In the world, covering the block between Klghty-aixtb and- Kighty-seventlt Streets.

Broad way. and Amsterdam Avenue; the ISethferland, Lancashire, and Dorchester apartment houses at Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Streets and River-side Drive; ihe Peter Stuyvesaat apart- ment at Ninety-eighth Street, and the Drive, and numerous others. "In all of these buildings," said F. R. Wood yesterday, "the leasing is reported as progrs3ing most satisfactorily, with all types of apartment, at from to S.1.000 per year, almost equally lit favor.

A considerable westward movement to this section has been noted from the Madison and Lexington Avenues section above Eightieth' Street. This is-attributed to tha better transit facilities on the west side, the more modern buildings, and to the encroachment of thos coming from downtown districts into the Harlem section." Newest 112th Street..