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The Stuyvesant Apartments, Stuyvesant Flats, Rutherford Stuyvesant Flats or simply The Stuyvesant, was an apartment building located at 142 East 18th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is considered to be the first apartment building in the city intended for the middle class, who previously were not used to living in apartments, which were initially called "French flats" at the time.〔 Before the Stuyvesant, almost all of the housing in New York City consisted of either tenements or townhouses. The Stuyvesant helped to bridge this gap, satisfying the need for higher density but upscale housing. Rents ranged from $1,000 to $1,800 per year, the rough equivalents in 2014 of approximately $2,080 to $3,830 per month. The Stuyvesant was successful, leading the way for other such buildings to be constructed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Architecture and Development of New York City: Apartment Living: The Stuyvesant )〕 In their book ''New York 1880'', Robert A. M. Stern and his co-authors wrote that the Stuyvesant was the "foundation stone" of the movement of the middle-class into apartments.〔 ==Development== The Stuyvesant was developed by Rutherford Stuyvesant. Despite his name, Stuyvesant was not a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, one of the directors of New Amsterdam, but was related through his mother. Born "Stuyvesant Rutherford", he changed his name to satisfy the 1847 will of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, which required that the boy adopt the surname "Stuyvesant" in order to inherit the estate. This was solved by a name reversal, and so in 1863, when he was 21, "Stuyvesant Rutherford" became "Rutherford Stuyvesant".〔("Rutherford Stuyvesant Married in London" ) ''The New York Times'' (June 17, 1902). Quote: "Mr. Stuyvesant's name originally was Rutherford, a but a condition of the will of a relative, who died childless, required that he take the name Stuyvesant in order to inherit. He therefore reversed his names, and, instead of Stuyvesant Rutherford, became Rutherford Stuyvesant."〕〔Gray, Christopher ("Apartment Buildings, the Latest in French Ideas" ) ''The New York Times'' (July 14, 2013)〕〔Tauber, Gilbert. (Letter to the editor ) ''The New York Times'' (August 13, 1995)〕 While in Paris, Stuyvesant admired the French apartment buildings, and decided to build one in New York City.〔 He was 27 years old at the time.〔 The apartments were built in 1869–70 at the cost of $100,000, and were designed by noted architect Richard Morris Hunt in the Victorian Gothic style.〔 Stuyvesant had met Hunt in Paris,〔 and considered him to be the best architect for the project. Not only he had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but he also understood what had been required for middle class Parisians to accept apartment living. The building opened in 1870, and was a success, attracting many young couples of impeccable reputation. All the apartments were rented before the building was finished, and many applicants were turned away.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stuyvesant Apartments」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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