$60,300,000, New York City appropriated $16,100,000, while the Fed-
eral Public Works Administration made a grant of $9,200,000 and bought
$35,000,000 of bonds. In 1937 these bonds were bought back from the
Government and were refinanced by direct sale to the public.

To the motorist, the Triborough Bridge brings an exhilarating freedom
from congestion and stop lights that is worth much more than the toll
charge. He must pass but one toll point, and he never crosses the path of
another vehicle at grade.

To the pedestrian, the bridge offers one of the most spectacular high-
level walks in the country. In recommending that walkers start from the
Astoria end, Lewis Mumford wrote: "Here is one of the few places . . .
where one can see New York across a foreground of verdure and water
and it must be counted one of the most dazzling urban views in the
world."

Harlem River Houses

151st to 153d St., Macomb's Place to Harlem River. IRT Lenox Ave. subway to
145th St.; or 8th Ave. (Independent) Grand Concourse subway (local) to 155th
St.-8th Ave.; or 9th Ave. el to 151st St.; or 5th Ave. bus No. 2 to i52d St.

In New York City's most overcrowded community, Harlem—where Ne-
groes pay as much as 50 per cent of their incomes for rent, where the rent
party is an institution, and where the "hot bed" serves three shifts of
sleepers a day—are the Harlem River Houses, a group of apartment build-
ings that provide more sunlight, fresh air, and certain other advantages
of good housing than the residences of fashionable Park Avenue.

Built in 1937 by the Federal Administration of Public Works, Housing
Division, the project is a recognition in brick and mortar of the special
and urgent needs of Harlem, and the first large-scale modern housing com-
munity made available for low-income Manhattan residents at rents they
can afford. The houses, a $4,500,000 development, are occupied by 574
Negro families paying rents ranging from $19.28 to $31.42 a month. This
development of nine acres (.014 square mile) indicates what may be the
solution for 4.4 square miles of Manhattan housing condemned as unfit for
human habitation. As a first effort of the present national housing pro-
gram it has exerted a great influence on the future of that program; and
it is significant not only as a step toward solving the problem of the "ill-
housed one-third," but also toward raising the housing standards of high-
income groups. Indicative of the wide influence of the Federal Govern-