By the beginning of the 1920s, it was clear to those interested in New York City’s housing patterns that apartment buildings would have to be the wave of the future. The movers and shakers of the real estate world could do a lot of things, but they couldn\u2019t make more land. The opportunity to house an expanding population necessitated hundreds more multiple-unit buildings. They could not be the tenements still plaguing most low income neighborhoods, with minimal standards of air and light and medieval sanitary accommodations. They needed to be something between the tenements and luxury residential hotels. They had to appeal and be affordable to a rising middle class.<\/p>\n
As millions of new Americans moved out of places like the Lower East Side, they were also moving up the economic ladder, taking advantage of the public educational opportunities available and their own ingenuity and talents to create new businesses, industries, and jobs for themselves and their children. They needed, and wanted, a new kind of apartment building, one that offered space for families and amenities that elevated their living experiences.<\/p>\n
The upper reaches of Manhattan as well as much of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens were ideal locations to house the growing population of the city. Some of these neighborhoods had been farmland only 50 or 60 years before, and the housing consisted primarily of suburban-style one-family wood-frame houses in various types and sizes. Flatbush is an ideal example.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> Single Page<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their boom-time designs for middle-class apartment dwellers featured popular styles such as Tudor and Colonial Revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11099,"featured_media":534721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7645],"tags":[29404],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-533787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","tag-cohn-brothers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cohn Brothers: Prolific Architects of Brooklyn’s Jazz Age Apartment Buildings","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/architecture\/cohn-brothers-architects-brooklyn-apartment-buildings\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/architecture\/cohn-brothers-architects-brooklyn-apartment-buildings\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flatbush-113-115-lenox-road-cohn-brothers-aug2024-sdevries-2.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/flatbush-113-115-lenox-road-cohn-brothers-aug2024-sdevries-2.jpg"},"articleSection":"Architecture","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suzanne Spellen"}],"creator":["Suzanne Spellen"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Brownstoner","logo":""},"keywords":["cohn brothers"],"dateCreated":"2024-09-11T20:03:29Z","datePublished":"2024-09-11T20:03:29Z","dateModified":"2024-09-11T22:34:51Z"},"rendered":"