Sentence examples for french flats from inspiring English sources
apartment houses, known as French flats.
Until the mid-1870s the new "French Flats" were categorized with private houses under "First Class Dwellings," even though they were technically tenement houses.
Both "Alone Together" and "New York 1880," by Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, list New York's earliest possible French Flats, and of their combined tally, only one earlier than the Black, Starr building survives: the architect Detlef Lienau's chaste set of buildings of 1870 at the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 71st Street.
It was to be a $300,000 , 36-apartment"French flat," as such structures were called.
The apartment house, known at first as a French flat, took off as developers mined a completely new market.
*The altered but recognizable facade of one of the earliest "French flat" apartment houses for the middle class, 251 Fifth Avenue, at 28th Street (George B. Post, 1874).
But SHERIDA E. PAULSEN, the chairwoman of the commission, called the revised plan "a very elegant nine-story contextual building that is inspired by the French flat apartments throughout Carnegie Hill".
And so it is that in describing her West Village studio, Mary Biosic calls it a "French flat," and then compares it with the home of a character in the Jean-Luc Godard film "Breathless".
But we are ever aware of small changes later becoming large changes, as when the French flat tax started at 1%.
Emergency admissions (emergencies with subsequent inpatient admission) are paid through GHS flat rates (GHS = "Groupes homogènes de séjours" = French DRG flat rates).
