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New York Times

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Mar 08, 1908

Page

8

Real Estate Field Advances in Washington Heights Revival

Washington Heights real estate shows revival with six plots bought by builders and plans for substantial new construction between 145th and 185th Streets. A major restaurant site is leased at Broadway and 145th, mortgage availability edges up, and legislative debate on land title registration continues amid broker activity and multiple property sales across Manhattan and the Bronx.

Washington Heights Broadway Corners 145Th 185Th Streets Heights Broadway 145Th Street Purdy Saxe Albany

Foreclosure Auction Listings For Week In New York

Auction sales scheduled Tuesday to Friday list multiple foreclosures and executors' sales across Manhattan and the Bronx with properties including six story tenements, brick buildings and mixed use lots. Referees include George F. Weiler Frank Hendrick Edward Browne and Milton S. Gutterman with amounts due on judgments ranging from about 2,296 to 62,315 dollars.

Yunsberry & O*connor Rivington St Lewis &T George FE. Weiler Peter F. Meyer Franklin s_s Hudson St Myrtle Av Brooklyn Adams St 26Th St West 6Th Av Edward Browne James L. Wells Cypress 6Th St Donald McLean Cypress Aves Cypress Aves 50 Fts of 136Th St McLean 156Th St Donald MacLean Cypress AV 135Th St 100Th St Milton S. Gutterman Madison Av Frank T. Fitzgerald Samuel Goldsticker J. C. Levi

Building Department plans list multiple city alterations and new structures

The Building Department records show several pending projects including two story frame dwellings on Sheil Street and Seabury Place, brick stables on Hoe Avenue, three story frame stores on 2c9th Street, and multiple two story frame or brick tenement buildings with architect names, owners, and costs ranging from 3 500 to 12 000.

Sheil St Deus Ay W.W. Brown Westchester Paikee Avs H. P. Bilert Hoe Aves Freeman St Mary Poldow Hoe Robert Glenn 6Th AV Tony Cariella East 140Th St J. J. Vreeland Seabury Place S S Charlotte St Carl PF. Minxall Prospect Av Neils Toelboge Fost Burnside Av James Johnstone East 119Th St Awner R. E. Archibald Arcitect Carl F. Meixall Neils Tnelberg Neils Toelberg

Riverside Drive parcel transfer to Isaac Marcuson

Real estate transfer recorded for Saturday March 6 shows Riverside Drive lot at 75 by 86 feet, situated 600.2 feet south of 127th Street. Rutland Realty Co. sells to Isaac Marcuson for $100.

Riverside Drive E S 127Th St Rutland Realty Co Isaac Marcuson 127Th

Builders expand housing on Fourth Avenue near Seventy Fourth Street

Builders advancing large one and two family homes to meet rising demand from moderate income homeseekers. Prospective plans include a seven room first floor and a five room upper floor with separate plumbing and heating systems. Fifteen more similar houses are planned on Fourth Avenue at Seventy Fourth Street.

Fourth Avenue Seventy-fourth Street

Numerous NYC property transfers and quitclaims listed

A long ledger of real estate transactions across Brooklyn and New York City shows numerous deeds, quitclaims, mortgages, and assignments. Buyers include Belmont Realty and Co, Andrew Streit, Frieda Hart, the New York County National Bank, and others, with properties on Amundson Avenue, Brook Avenue, Hughes Avenue, 45th Street, 69th Street, Cannon Street, 168th Street, Inwood Avenue, Rivington Street, and more. Amounts range from $1 to $54,100 with many mortgages listed, and several records indicate gift or quitclaim actions.

Isaac Marcuson Hyman Manassevitz Brook Katie Streit Andrew Streit William Hof Hughes Belmont Realty and Con,Co Mary Miller Isak Tepper Amundson Nelson Bronx LA Fontaine 179Th St Frieda Hart Alexander Schwartz 45Th ST S S 10Th Av Levin Bessie Bobrick 69Th ST West New York County National Bank Josephine W. Wupperman Cannon ST Stanton St Jacob Schnur Ephraim Grinspan 168Th ST Morrisania John and Louis Fass Max Cohen Louis A. Sable Sarah F. Sable Amsterdam Solomon Wronker Selina Wronker 116Th ST Harry M. Billings Adolph Loewe Pontiac ST Wilton, &c Thomas D. Tompkins Sue Ee John T. Connolly Adee Park Leodegar Siebert Adelaide Adelaide A. Wabst, $1. Prospect St, W S, 50 Ft N E of Waverley Flacé Abraham Rubinowicz Harris Tow Sherman Isham St George N. Mauger Walter H. Barry

Transfer records show multiple property transactions in city listings

The notice lists several total property transfers including Miller Mary to Carrie Katzenberg at Hughes Aves and 202.0 ft north of 151st St for a 16 by 90 foot lot with a 3.0 bond. Ruth M Heinze to John A includes Madison Ave 220 with a 115,000 bond. Alexander Schwarz to Arbuthnot- Stephen Son Co at La Fantine Ave with 97.3 ft south of 179th St. Metropolitan Securities Co to Herbert H Vreeland on 5th St 103 ft east of 1st Ave for 50,000 bond. Florence E Peets to Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust Co on 123d St 226 West. Rubin Auerbach to Abe Reiter on Essex St 126 for 4 years at 6 percent. and other fragmented entries including Wabs t Adelaide A touristian Becker.

Miller Mary Carrie Katzenberg Hughes Aves 151St St Bond Heinze Ruth M John A Pene Madison Av Schwarz Alexander Arbuthnot- Stephenson Company la Fantine 179Th St Cseve Nes Cope Metropolitan Securities CO Herbert H. Vreeland Florence E Lawyers Title Insurance and ‘Trust Co West Ceee Serene Auerbach Rubin Abe Reiter Essex St WABST Adelaide Touristian Becker

Multiple Property Suits Filed Across Manhattan and Nearby Areas

A series of real estate and construction dispute records list numerous cases. Names include Raymond Van. Praag Supply Co. versus Albert Rothermel on Whitlock Ave, and Leopold Ranzenhoffer against John Solomon on Clinton St. Other actions involve Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. against 549 Park Ave, Joseph Monetti against Michael Briganti on Mott and Elizabeth Streets, and Gerstle-Frank Contracting Co. against Thomas F. Kaughran. Damages range from $70 to $3,110 with defendants including owners and contractors across addresses on Starr, Broadway, West 55th, and 1st Avenue areas.

Whitlock AV Tiffany St Raymond van. Praag Supply Co Albert Rothermel Clinton, ST Leopold Ranzenhoffer John Solomon Henry Kleindienst Alexander Greif Park AV Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co Park Avenue Herman Probst MOTT Joseph Monetti Michael Briganti Elizabeth ST Lapayette Walker ST Gerstle-Frank Contracting Co Thomas F Annabelle McC. Kaughran Henry Anna L. Lintig Belmont AV Giuseppe Borello Jacob Lavin Abraham Simpson Tiffany Charles M. Gray Marble and Slate Co 55Th ST David J. Cohen Charles, Louise Joseph Doelger Carrie D.soo Henry Diehl Ot le Broadway Tth Norwalk Lock Co Knickerbocker Trust Co General Supply and Construction

Mechanics' Liens Filed on 224th and 217th Streets

Notices record mechanics liens against Emilio Magaldi by David M. Meyerson dated December 4, 1907 for $150 at 224th Street and against G Barone by New Jersey Terra Cotta Company dated January 16, 1808 for $25 at 217th Street, northeast of Paulding Avenue.

224Th ST White Plains Road Emilio Magaldi David M. Meyerson

High Class Developments In Bay Ridge District

The Bay Ridge area south of Sixty-fifth Street in Brooklyn shows notable growth along Fifth Avenue and its cross streets. Builders M. Green & Co. have completed thirty two family houses on Seventy-seventh Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, three stories high with Indiana limestone and brownstone fronts and full height cellars.

Bay Ridge Sixty-fifth Street Thirtieth Ward Brooklyn Fifth Avenue Second Avenues Shore Road Fort Hamilton Boulevard Fourth Avenue Seventy-seventh Street Fourth Fifth Avenues M. Green & Co

Real Estate Interests Rally Against Saxe Bill Proposals

Allied Real Estate Interests report broad opposition to the Saxe bill requiring that conveyance considerations be stated. Letters from J. M. Horton L. Napoleon Levy James M. Lehmaier Charles F. Mathewson E A Tredwell and Manfred W. Ehrich warn of harm to property values and claim class legislation. The record notes property plots sold by the McCormack Real Estate Company in Floral Park Valley Stream and nearby streets.

J. M. Horton New York L. Napoleon Levy James M. Lehmaier Charles F. Mathewson E. A. Tredwell Manfred W. Ehrich Nue Roxbury Road Minnie Sinclair Brixton Road Cambridge Road John McKay Salisbury Avenue McCormack Real Estate Company Spruce Beech Poplar Street Floral Park Valley Stream Merrick Boulevard Lincoln Avenue Melrose and Grove Streets

Long Island Purchases From McKnight Realty Co

The McKnight Realty Company reports numerous property sales in Bayside Flushing Whitestone Nassau County Garden City Estates and surrounding areas. Buyers include C D Coleman W Black L C Ferris D E Kendig C McNamara A H Drew Clark Levy L Grange Elmer O Roessle Henry W Gennerich Becker Davis Co Charles A Kittle and others. Land plots range from 30 by 100 to 100 by 150 feet across parcels on Stewart Avenue Fifth Street Sixteenth Street Ninth Street Ocean Point Avenue Ocean Avenue Maple Street Bay View Avenue Kensington Road Roxbury Newmarket Roads and Salisbury Avenue.

McKnight Realty Company Bayside Flushing Bayside C. D. Coleman Stewart Avenue Lawrence Manor Co. W. Black Fifth Street Flushing Terrace Flushing L. C. Ferris Sixteenth Street C. McNamara Ninth Street Cedarhurst-North Nassau County A. H. Drew Ocean Point Avenue Clark Levy Ocean Avenue Maple Street L. Grange Bay View Avenue Garden City Estates Elmer O. Roessle Salisbury Avenue Kensington Road Henry W. Gennerich Roxbury Newmarket Roads Becker, Davis & Co Nassau Boulevard Charles A. Kittle Stewart Ave

Auction on Staten Island to sell multiple properties

H. J. Sharrett will auction several Staten Island properties on Saturday March 21 at Masonic Hall Port Richmond. Parcels include thirty Decker Heights lots at Decker Lexington Avenues and Catharine Street plus three Simonson Avenue lots in Mariners Harbor a residence at 89 Bay Avenue Mariners Harbor and a dwelling at 76 Lafayette Avenue Port Richmond.

H. J. Sharrett Masonic Hall Port Richmond Staten Island Decker Heights Decker and Lexington Avenues Catharine Street Simonson Avenue Mariners’ Harbor Bay Avenue Lafayette Avenue

Harlem congregation to build new Edifice Ansche Chesed

Plans filed for a $200000 Tem ple Ansche Chesed at Seventh Ave and 114th St outline a limestone and Harvard brick sanctuary seating 1290 plus 400 in Sunday school with a glass roof garden. Cornerstone due late April. completion hoped by September. Fundraising includes sale proceeds and events at the Grand Opera House and Harlem Casino.

Department of Building Temple Ansche Chesed Edward I. Shire Seventh Avenue 114Th Street St. Nicholas Avenue Prietor Grand Opera House Harlem Congregation Ansche Chesed Harvard Ple

Subway Reform Meetings Push Private Capital for Builds

Public meetings planned this month to back legislative aid for enlisting private capital in subway construction. First session set for March 18 at Real Estate Salesroom in Vesey Street. subsequent gatherings to follow at Bloomingdale's, Pease & Elliman on Madison Avenue, United Real Estate Owners' Association on Lexington Avenue, and Harlem event led by Elias A. Cohen.

United Real_Estate Owners Turn Hall Highty-fifth Street Lexington Avenue and Real Estate Owners ‘Association Vesey Street Bloomingdale's Fifty-ninth Street Third Avenue Pease & Elliman Madison Avenue United Real Estate Owners’ Association Eighty-fifth Street Harlem Elias A. Cohen

New Concrete Method May Cut Home Building Time

Edward A. Hett, inventor of the multicolor printing press patents, proposes a monolithic concrete method to build an eight room dwelling in four days for about $2,000 plus $10,000 initial plant cost. The system uses sheet steel molds on an interchangeable unit system, a new mixing machine, a conveyor, and a novel reinforcement to reduce massiveness and speed construction.

Thomas A. Edison Edward A. Hett Hett American Lithograph Company Mr. Hett Mtr

Subways Boost Growth Along Long Island South Shore

Long Island’s South Shore colonies near Flatbush Avenue station rise as the Brooklyn Subway and Long Island electric services link Manhattan with few car changes. Carrollton Realty Company develops Lakewood Park Edgerton Square Bayhampton Park Ormonde Park Hazelwood Gardens, with cottages priced from 3590 to 16000 occupied by owners. Bayhampton Park’sGreat South Bay proximity attracts buyers as Carrollton undertakes stucco construction on new homes.

South Shore Long Island Brooklyn Subway Flatbush Avenue Long Island Railroad Manhattan Carrollton Realty Company Lakewood Park Edgerton Square Bayhampton Park Ormonde Park Hazelwood Gardens Baldwin Freeport Great South Bay Carrollton Company

Torrens Title Reform Stirs Silent Albany Hearing

A joint Albany hearing on the Land Title Registration act drew no opposition after Senator Davis sought comments. Speakers, including Charles H. Ayres and Prof. Alfred G. Reeves, praised Torrens system advantages for lawyers and landowners, noting constitutional soundness and costs observed in Massachusetts. Brooklyn Borough President Bird S. Coler endorsed title registration, describing state ownership as essential. Merchants’ Association directors moved to back the Torrens bill pending in Albany.

Albany Davis Charles H. Ayres Ralph Folks Massachusetts Land Registration Committee Bird S. Coler Brooklyn Camillus G. Kidder William Street New York Birds Coler The Merchants’ Association

New Schools in Queens Face Growth Strain and Site Debates

The city plans new Queens schools to reduce part time pupils, with sites proposed at Broadway Flushing and in Westmoreland Little Neck Douglaston. A Clinton Avenue plot valued at 15000 aiming to spur two schools, plus offers from Rickert Finlay Realty for blocks on Broadway Westmoreland and Douglas Manor, fuel controversy over where to place facilities as population surges.

Queens Broadway-Flushing Little Neck Douglaston Natieth Twentysixth Streets Sanford Avenue Clinton Avenue Rickert- Finlay Realty Company Broadway Westmoreland Douglas Manor

Hewlett Bay Company Sells Estate for Hewlett Bay Park Development

The Hewlett Bay Company via E. S. and 8. F. Voss sold the residence and five acres on East Rockaway Road Hewlett L I formerly J Howes Burton. Plans loom for Hewlett Bay Park development covering about 600 acres with strict five acre minimums south of Broadway. New railroad station construction to start soon.

Hewlett Bay Company E. S 8. F. Voss East Rockaway Road Hewlett, L. I J. Howes Burton Hewlett Bay Park Broadway

New Jersey Acreage Deals Across Palisades and Bergen County

Congressman M E Driscoll of Syracuse takes title to four Palisades tracts totaling about 280 acres east of Englewood. George R Malone sells to Arthur J Kantner a 26 acre Liberty Road Teaneck Englewood area plot. Hudson River Realty sells to Theresa F Pucci a 25 by 100 foot Palisade Heights lot. Columbia Investment reports multiple parcels in Morse Homore Morsemere Grantwood and Knox Avenue. Ridgewood Land and Mortgage sells homes and farms in Ridgewood and surrounding towns to several buyers. Eastwood Realty transfers two six room dwellings in Weehawken for 21 500 and a Hudson County Boulevard residence in Woodcliff for 17 600.

M. E. Driscoll Syracuse Palisades Englewood George R. Malone Arthur J. Kantner Liberty Road Teaneck Hudson River Realty Company Theresa Fpucchi Palisade Heights Columbia Investment and Real Estate Company Jacob Adams Harriett Avenue Morsemere H. J. Meeger Grantwood Edward Eaton Charles M. West Linden Avenue Rofs Avenue Ernest Oppenheim Knox Avenue Public Service Ridgewood Land and Mortgage Company Ridgewood Bee William. H. Shaw G. B. Rotteart Delia A. Cornell John Nutty Eastwood Realty Company Deborah A. Serviss Fourth Street Weehawken Alexander Rosie Stoll Paul, Gilmore Hudson County Boulevard Woodcliff Joseph C. Schrader

Customs Rulings Define Sea Stores In Tariff Dispute

U S circuit court in the Southern District of Texas ruled coal cannot be considered sea stores under the Ding ley tariff after a protest by Hawley & Letzerich for Lars Rinaga Line. The case concerned coal transferred aboard the Anselma in Galveston to the Mercedes, with duty demanded at 67 cents per ton. The Board of Appraisers favored the importers, but Judge Burns reversed, defining sea stores as shipboard subsistence and accommodation provisions. the Board of United States General Appraisers sustained the decision. Protests also involved several companies over bottling charges.

United States Circuit Court For Southern District of Texas Hawley & Letzerich Lars Rinaga Line Anselma Galveston Mercedes Board of Appraisers United States General Apages Alexandria Hotel Company Los Angeles John Barth Company Milwaukee Northern Manufacturing Company Minneapolis

Foreclosure Notices Listed on East Side Streets and Avenues

Multiple foreclosure actions filed by plaintiffs including Theodore S. Bassett Joseph Beacher Philip Jacobs Louis Bloch Harney Estate Co and Anna L Armstrong against defendants such as Edward Whalen Michael BGenin Katzen Realty Co Sigfried Wittner William Scully Herman Koenigsberger and others across avenues including 10th 125th Lexington and Avenue D with attorneys noted for each case.

10Th Sth Irs Boyd Thistle Sarah J. Thistle Chase, Cahoone & Regan Michael Bgenincasa L. McPurney Avenue D Philip Jacobs Katzen Realty Company W. B. Marx 150Th St Amsterdam Thomas F. McAvoy Sigfried Wittner G. B. Teves T. Nicholas Avenue Anna L. Armstrong William Scully James, Schell & Elkus Bradhurst Louis Bloch Louis Block, Inc Macomb Edward L. Woolf Herman Koenigsberger J. A. Deering

Also Mentioned on This Page

Dr. N William Henry Folsom Leonard Landes Robert W. Barnard East Twenty-second Street Third Purchase Madison Square S. B. Goodfle & Son William J. Kelly Edmund Coffin West Twenty-fourth Street Mr. Coffin West Side George F. Ficken West 113Th Street 127Th Street West 101St Street Frances M. Carleton Sherman B. Price Eugene Vallens Alfred Roelker West Eighty-eighth Street Maria S. Simpson West Twenty-ninth Street S. K. Johnson Fast 115Th Street Edwin A. Polsk East 127Th Street Edwin Flynn Manhattan Avenue R. E. Burke West End Avenue Riverside Harry Matz 126Th Street Charles Wynne Joseph R. Stein 131St Street Amsterdam Avenue Upper East Side Lower Fifth Avenue Folsom Brothers William H. Gebhard Clifford B. Fuller Will Philip Hooper O. T. Louis Company American Specialty Company Fifth Avenue Hotel James A. Slater Townsend Twenty-fifth Street Pearl Street Frederick A. Booth Wynkoop A. N M. Capen Kappa Sigma Club of West Fifty-eighth Street Reisenweber’s Westchester Avenue Albert A. Friedman Bertha Schmuck Henry W. Fedden & Co B. Schwartzberg 135Th Street Pauline Levy Simon Fellinger Charles Seligman John R. Peterson Woodruff Avenue John A. Steinmetz Mary Hredeman Herman Becker Berrian Avenue Neil Meilich Don Nellie Seligman 926Th Street Twelfth Avenue Bronxwood Avenue Burrill Brothers Mary Burt Second Avenue Fifty-eighth Fifty-ninth Streets Brookn M. H. Gubbins Sixth Avenue G. H. Officer M. J. Kenny Joseph P. Day Greenwich Street Desbrosses Street Twenty-sixth Street Washington Avenue Agne Day Fourteenth Street Houston Carmine Downing Streets Kennelly Meeks Church Street West Twenty-seventh Street Browne's Chophouse Bathgate Avenues 1441 Daniel O'Day West Seventy-second Street Franklin Street Hudson Street Benjamin D. Silliman Wall Street Meyer Siliman Myrtle Avenue Adams Street J. Barry Lounsberry Rivington Street Wis Street Cypress Avenue 25Th 126Th Streets Wos 175Th St Frank Hendrick Fordham Fitch St College Av Warren Leslie Joseph FP 14Th St Washington Av Goth St Amsterdam Ay Greenwich St Desbrosses St Robbins Ay. Es Ibist St Martin H. Vogel Juna St 70Th St Sylvester Malone 21St St 1St Millard H. Ellison Houston St Hugh R. Yarden 95Th St Alfred Steckler Emil Goldmark the Building Department Hansen Henry C George H. Schults Alexander Aves Kelly Edwin H People’s Trust Co Decatur Av Travers St Seren Gay North Shore Garden City Staten Island Properties 113Th Street John H. Springer Meyer Goodfriend Arthur Rollins G. N. Hausman Herman Roll D. Auerbach Wi St St.Nicholas Av Inventor Hett Ee Tow Bayhampton Farkit Torrens New Jersey Ddriscoll Lis Pendens
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