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New York Times

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Mar 15, 1908

Page

10

Real Estate Recovery Sparks Large Riverside Drive Deal

The week shows revived real estate activity with major block-front sales on Riverside Drive and Broadway. Adams Express buys a large southeast corner plot at Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth Street, signaling uptown business growth. brokers report brisk competition and expanding activity across Harlem Heights and Minetta Street.

Riverside Drive Washington Heights Barmney Broadway Fort Washington Avenue Heights 135Th Street Adams Express Company Seventh Avenue Fourteenth Street Uptown Bernard Smyth & Sons John N. A. Griswold Century Holding Company Lee & Fleischmann Ninety-eighth and Ninety-ninth Streets Ninety-eighth Street Ninety-ninth Street West End Avene Oppenheimer & Veith Francis M. Jencks

Auction Sales This Week Foreclosure Listings

Auction sales scheduled Monday March 16 and Tuesday March 17 list foreclosures on multiple properties. Details include addresses in Manhattan and surrounding streets, property dimensions, and referee names with judgment amounts of 13414, 11000, and 10981 dollars.

Foreclosure Sale Notices Involving Donnegan and Collins

Referee Pryor lists sale by order of the Sheriff of all title and interest of John A. Donnegan due Dec 19, 1907 at Central Park West corner 84th St 25 by 100. Charles A. Berrian cites Amsterdam Ave 350 ft of 158th St s 8 350 ft of Amsterdam Ave 100 by 99.11 two six story brick tenements with foreclosure sale and referee George W. Collins due on judgment 16467.

Joseph PP Allen St Broome Carlisle Norwood 100Th St Charles Firestone Southern Boulevaid 149Th St Prospect Av Myron Sulzberger Prospect Aves Fox St Thomss A McDonald Southe Boulevard Avenue St. John Triregular E. J. Tinsdale E. J. Ludvigh s_s Broadway All Right Herman I. Peck Edward Browne L. J. Phillips & Co Louis Steckler Joseph P. Day Roosevelt St Cherry ‘St J. E. Sherry 8Th Avenue Frank T. Fitegerald 19Th St Emil Goldsmark Tith St 2D St F._T. Fitzgerald B. G. Paskus Ogden St 167Th St George W. Kirchwey Robbins Aves 151St St Martin H. Vogel Peter F. Meyer 96Th St West End Ee Browne St Nicholas Place St. Nicholas Place W S Roger Joseph Amsterdam J. P. Morrissey Greenwich St Fulton St O. W. Bohan Lounsberry & O'Connor Rivington St Lewis St George E Weller A. Pryor Central Park West 84Th St John A. Donnegan Charles A. Berrian George W. Collins

Real estate construction notes list multiple brick buildings

Entries show numerous New York City projects with five to eight story brick stores lofts warehouses and dwellings. Notable details include M A E Wendel of 175 Broadway owner J B SnookeSs Sons architects costs from 15000 to 50000 and dates and site coordinates such as 84 Av 25 ft north of 37th St and 3d Ave 1824 to 83d St for a hospital.

37Th St M. A. E. Wendel Broadway J. B. SnookeSs Sons G. L. Lawrence G. F. Pelham Hull ‘Av van Buren St Ebeling Park Av 56Th St J. C. Edgar East 34Th St Foster Gade & Graham Darling Estate Robinson & Knust J. H. Knubel Robert E. Rogers

Real Estate Transfers Filed in Saturday Listings

Saturday March 14 records list transfers across Manhattan and surrounding streets including St. Mark's Place 8 and 5 34 Av 25 27 Stanton St and more. Notable deeds include George Thum to City of New York 402 Broome St for 40000 and several mortgages ranging from 100 to 20050 dollars.

ST. Mark’s Place Stanton St Chrystie St 1St’ St 1St St Broome St Rivington St 2D St 10Th St Elizabeth St Houston St 3D St List St William A. Prentice Brevoort Prentice Louis Hubener David Mudge Marion Avne Dorothea Place James H. Young Hugh I. Young Avenue A Charles Shapiro Benjamin M. Gruenstein Essex ST Mendel Diamondston Harris Schwartz Park AV 171St St Frank Starkman Arthur Knox BROOK W S Anna Place Manhattan Mortgage R.and W. Realty Co Belmont AV 181St St Augusta Levy Lillie Schaman Broome BT George Thum City of New York 45Th ST Eliza J. Ryan Hugh J. Gallagher Terence F. Gallagher Hermen Siegel Yetta Siegel Lenox Av 134Th St

Real estate mortgage transfers listed in street corner notes

Regular entries show multiple mortgage details and transfers including names Nora M Hannon Alonzo N Dewey Maximilian M Davidoff Christina Funken Morris Erde Abraham Nadelberg Etta Forgotston Union Exchange Bank Jacob Chaimowitz Thomas Carroll Mary O Donnell Lizzie Wallace Abraham Gabriel Lizzie Wallace Michael J Mulqueen Gesine Reinecke Johanna Ludwig executrix 12th St 6th Ave and Morrissania Mor ris area properties with dollars values and parcel sizes.

Nora M. Hannon Alonzo N. Dewey East Broadway Maximilian M. Davidoff Christina Funken Morris Erde Abraham Nadelberg Etta Forgotston Union Exchange Bank Jacob Chaimowitz Thomas Carroll Mary O’donnell Lizzie Wallace Abraham Gabriel Tinton AV W S Michael J. Mulqueen Max Cohen Sherman Gesine Reinecke Johanna Ludwig Executrix 12Th ST Brook Morrisania Victor Téolf

Real estate transfers and mortgages listed in city records

A compilation of property deeds and trust transfers shows multiple parties including DEWEY Alonzo and ROSE LEVERE transferring parcels and securing loans. Transactions involve lenders such as Manhattan Mortgage Co and Realty Co, with varied terms from six months to five years and interest rates around 6 to 7 percent. Located across avenues like 2nd and 3rd, 14th, 24th, and 25th streets with numerous parcels in Morrisania and Harlem area neighborhoods.

Real Estate Auction Adds Downtown Meeks Parcels to Sale

The Meeks estate executors list includes 14 and 16 Vesey Street, a five story building behind the Astor House, plus properties at Church and Vesey, and 31 West 27th Street, Browne Chop House site, all to be offered by Bryan L Kennelly with terms allowing 7 percent of purchase price to remain on mortgage for three to five years at 4.5 percent.

Meeks Kennelly West Seventy-second Street Lexington Avenue Seventh Avenue Nineteenth Street Rivington Street Lenox Avenue 141St Street 1491 West 171St Street Samuel Marx Ninetysixth West End Avenue Riverside Drive Greenwich Street Fulton and Dey Streets L. J. Phillips & Co Bryan T. Kennelly Vesey St Broadway Church St Sith St Columbus Av Lexington Av 114Th St 3D and Bathgate Real Estate Exchange Bryan L. Kennelly Vesey Street Astor House St. Paul's Churchyard Meekies Furniture P Church and Vesey West Twentyseventh Street Browne

Adams Estate Auction Sets Real Estate Sale on April 8

Executors of the Al Adams estate announce an auction at Bryan L Kennellys stand on April 8. Items offered include 344 Seventh Avenue near Twenty-ninth Street 181 to 189 Columbus Avenue NE corner of Sixty-eighth Street 9 James Slip SW corner Water Street and 413 and all East Thirty-fourth.

al’ Adams King Bryan L. Kennelly Seventh Avenue Twenty-ninth Street Columbus Avenue Sixty-eighth Street James Slip Water Street Thirty

Staten Island Auction Promises Wide Property Sale

An auction of several Staten Island North Shore parcels is announced by H. J. Sharrett for next Saturday at Masonic Hall Port Richmond. Properties include thirty lots on Decker Avenue Lexington Avenue and Catherine Street Decker Heights eight room house 76 Lafayette Avenue Port Richmond six room house 89 Bay Avenue Mariners Harbor two lots on Franklin Avenue Mariners Harbor and two lots on Heberton Avenue near Palmer Avenue Port Richmond. Sale begins at 1 PM.

Staten Island North Shore H. J. Sharrett Masonic Hall Port Richmond Decker Avenue Lexington Avenue Catherine Street Decker Heights Lafayette Avenue Bay Avenue Mariners’ Harbor Franklin Avenue Heberton Avenue Palmer Avenue

Plan for a New Borough Hall in Queens

Queens plans outline a six floor Borough Hall with storage in the basement and offices for Finance Tax and Public Works on upper floors. Site on Court Street Thomson Avenue faces objections due to the Thomson Avenue viaduct with a preference to use the original acquisition. The city seeks an appropriation to begin construction to curb rental costs for office space.

Borough Hall Court Street Thomson Avenue Queens Charles H. Caldwell Bermel Finance Department Bureau of Licenses Coroner's Court Commissioner of Public Works Bureau of Buildings Tenement House Department Department of Water Supply Cassidy Queens County Court House

Five-Cent Fare Plan for Queens Tunnels and Bridge

New York and Queens County Railway President Fuller says a 5-cent fare will apply from Manhattan to most Queens areas via the Blackwell's Island Bridge or the Forty-second Street tunnel. He proposes city ownership of the tunnel with the railway operating cars and sharing local tunnel receipts, while through-Queens routes retain their own fares.

Manhattan Queens Borough Blackwell’s Island Bridge Forty-second Street Fuller New York and Queens County Railway Park Avenue Long Island City Queens Broadway-Flushing Bayside Rickert-Finlay Realty Company Broadway Flushing Blackwell’s Island Department of Bridges Brooklyn Rapid Transit System Blackwell's Island Bridge Manhattan Terminal

Private Capital Subways Rally Support Across City

Real estate groups citywide back Allied Real Estate Interests bill to allow subway construction with private capital. President Robinson spoke to a large audience at Lexington Avenue and Eighty Fifth Street under the House and Real Estate Owners' Association. Harlem Property Owners' Association endorsed the bill unanimously. A Harlem mass meeting will follow to press for passage.

Robinson Lexington Avenue Tghty-Fifth Street House and Real Estate Owners’ Association Arlem Property Owners’ Association Harlem

Real Estate Boom Signals Busy Rockaway Season

Activity surges from Belle Harbor to Far Rockaway with new homes in Edgemere Arverne and Rockaway Park. Dredging and street work transform beachfront into residential area as West Rockaway Land Company reports selling $1,000,000 in plots over two seasons and expects stronger summer sales.

Rockaways Belle Harbor Far Rockaway Edgemere Arverne Old Rockaway Rockaway Park Bella Harbor Ocean Jamaica Bay Alter Schulze West Rockaway Land Company

Customs Rulings Uphold Wood Based Souvenir Cards Duty

The Board of United States General Appraisers partially sustains G. W. Sheldon & Co. claim. Souvenir post cards veneered with wood are dutiable as manufactures of wood at 35 percent ad valorem. Some cards are silk dominant and fall under silk rates. steel shapes are upheld at 45 percent ad valorem. stamped shapes rejected.

W. B. Howell Board of United States General Appraisers G. W. Sheldon & Co New _York Chicago Cleveland Stamping and Tool Company of Cleveland

Army assigns officers to staff and forts

In Washington on March 14 First Lieut. R. H. Jordan of the Coast Artillery is assigned to staff duty in the Artillery District of Olongapo. First Lieut. J. M. Fulton is transferred from the Seventy-eighth to the Forty-fifth Company, Coast Artillery. Lieut. Col. C. Deems is assigned to Fort Hancock for duty.

Washington R. H. Jordan Coast Artillery Artillery District

Military Transfers Mentioned in Sparse Report

Lieut J E Walker is assigned to a naval station at Guan tanamo Surgeo and K Ohnesorg is posted to New Hampshire in an abbreviated personnel update.

J. E. Walker Naval Station Guantanamo K. Ohnesorg New Hampshire

Shipping arrivals and sailings listed for ports

Arrived Preble at Los Angeles Nazinscot at Portsmouth Perry and Saturn at Mare Island. Sailed Mayflower from Norfolk for New Orleans Iroquois from Honolulu for Midway Yankton from Acapulco for Magdalena Bay Eagle from Santiago for Guantanamo Chicago from Rio for Bahia.

Preble Los Angeles Nazinscot Portsmouth Perry Saturn Mare Island Mayflower Norfolk New Orleans Iroquois Honolulu Midway Yankton Acapulco Magdalena Bay Eagle Santiago Guantanamo Chicago Rio Bahia

Long Island Real Estate Transfers This Week

Garden City Estates and the Rickert Finlay Realty Company sold multiple plots across Nassau Boulevard Wellington Road Stratford Avenue Brixton Road Kensington Road and South Avenue in Garden City Flushing Westmoreland Douglas Manor and Lynbrook Lakeview Park Bellemore Seaford. Buyers include Harry L Van Zile Charles A Kittle Mary J Barbour John Peters Catharine M Rudd Millicent F Eady Nellie M Farley Hilbert B Roach Roland Buckstone Maria O Reilly Jacob Veron A L K A Kinkead Ermelia L Ortega L M Trask Company John Talk F F Dearden W L Coultas and others. The Empire Realty Company arranged investment sales comprising twenty six lots in Lynbrook and a house with two lots in Seaford.

Garden City Estates Harry L. van Zile Nassau Boulevard Newmarket Road Charles A. Kittle Wellington Road Stratford Avenue Mary J. Barbour Startford Avenue Brixton Road John Peters Salisbury Avenue Catharine M. Rudd Kensington Road Unbridge Avenue Millicent F. Eady Chester Avenue Nellie M. Farley South Avenue Rickert-Finlay Reality Company Cutter and Glenwood Avenues Douglas Manor John Prose Ad Avenue Cherry Street Empire Realty Company F. J. Dearden Lynbrook L. I Lakeview Park Bellemore

Meeting to Advocate Torrens System

A meeting will be held at 3 P M on Thursday in the Real Estate Board of Brokers rooms to urge passage of the Land Title Registration act.

Real Estate Board of Brokers

Satisfied Mechanics Liens and Real Estate Notices

Multiple property liens and actions listed including CHERRY ST 146 J L Engel against Jane Geraghty and others with $189, STH ST 485 East Philip Lefitt against Philip Epstein and others with $360, WASHINGTON AV 8 corner 1784 Thomas IF Devine against Davorn Bealt Company with $818, 16th ST 504 to Stv West James J Devanney against Bessie C Clark and others with $375, MORTON ST 33 Griffin Roofing Co against John Doe and others with $323, ATTORNEY ST 175 Henry Essman against Conner canceled June 6 1907.

Cherry ST J. L. Engel Jane Geraghty Philip Lefitt Philip Epstein Washngton AV Thomas IF. Devine Davorn Bealt Company 16Th James J. Devanney Bessie C. Clark Morton ST Griffin Roofing John Doe Attorney ST Henry Essman Conner

Real Estate and Contract Disputes Listing

Notices show multiple civil actions with defendants owners and contractors. Cases include 116th Street 109 East Louis H Strouse trustee against Herman H Grossman. 86th Street 159 West Standard Plumbing Company vs Belle Hughes. Riv ington Street 175 and 175 Standard Camp Proofing Roofing Co vs A Le Kass and Berman Realty Co. 720 St 521 East Hull Grippen Co vs Bohemian American Workingmen's Gymnastic Association. Mott Street 154 to 14 Hull Grippen Co vs Henry M Sussman. Eagle Artificial Stone Co contractor. Amounts range 27 to 502.86.

116Th ST Louis H. Strouse Truste, E Herman H. Grossman Seidman & Adler Standard Plumbing Comepany Belle HH. Hughes Rivington Standard Camp Proofing & Roofing Company A. le Kass Berman Realty Company Hull, Grippen & Co Bohemian American Workingmen's Gymnastic Association Eagle Artificial Stone Company MOTT Henry M. Sussman Eagle Artificial Stone Company

Foreclosures and Encroachment Actions Listed in City Notices

A series of legal notices cites foreclosures of mortgages against real estate on 5th Street and Riverside Drive, actions to remove encroachments on St Mark's Place, and a mechanics lien foreclosure involving Hammerstein Denville. Attorneys named include W C De Witt, S N Tuckman, Rosenthal Steckler Levi, Rounds Hatch Dillingham Debevoise, and H H Ritterbusch.

William Cs E. Grant McGouwen W.C de Witt St. Mark's PL Morris Jones Meyer Berman N. Tuckman Riverside Drive David Steckler Hawthorne Building Company Rosenthal Steckler & Levi Broad ST Beaver St Hammerstein & Denville Company Consolidated Stoc Company & Petroleum Exchange Building Co H. H. Ritterbusch

Also Mentioned on This Page

Alfred M. Rau Knowlton Hall 158Th Street Charles V. Schmidt, Jr Clarence A. Rothwell Kuhn & Lawson 184Th Street St. Nicholas Avenue Webster Realty Company Mayer S. Auerbach Barney Estate Riverside J. M. Levy 26Th Street B. Goodale & Son Jefferson M. Levy West Twenty-sixth Street Elmer A. Darling Lindeman & Sons West Twenty-fourth Street West Twenty-third Street West Street Edgar & Curtis Barclay Street Park Place Robert R. Vat Henry D. Windus Winslow S. Pierce Fiftyeighth Street E. de Forest Simmons G. Willett- van Nest East Sixtieth Street Yale Kneeland T. G. Janeway, Jr Pease & Elliman Charles C. McMichael Thomas J. Meehan Washington Terrace E. R. Perrine Activity Hills Minetta Street John R Oscar L. Foley Watson Minetta Street Bleeckertreet Elbert Herring Hendrick Brevoort Ernst-Cahn Realty Company Kurz & Uren Louis Meyer Realty Company West 185Th Street Herman Arns Company Max Bernstein Thomas Scholes Eighth Avenue 1Er & Co Mrs. C. Files East 124Th Street C. J. Chapman George F. Picken M. L. Clark Nyack West 118Th Street East 19Th Street Purchase B. H. Ludlow &Co Folsom Brothers East Nineteenth Street East 34Th Street Lease Folsom Brothers Abbie J. Henshaw East Thirty-fourth Street Synchronous Manufacturing Company Henry A. Dix & Sons Company Dix West Fourteenth Street A. P. Babcock Duross Company Michael F. Farley Wallach & Diamond New Hotel Twenty-second Street Eleventh Avenue Chelsea Dorks Bronx Third Avenue Ernst-Collin Realty Company Arthur Wall 174Th Street Wilman Hi L. Zelinka Washington Avenue Louie Reiss Charles Reinecker Sherman Avenue Philip Ludwig Edenwald Land Companies Murdock Avenue Jefferson Avenue Herman Cohen Whitehall Realty Company Nereid and Edson Avenues Wetmore & Magill E. K. van Winkle Livingston Wetmore Wetmore & van Winkle Pine Street Lincoln Seide G. Seide G. Seide & Son Madison Avenue John H.hallock Ralestate West Side Y. M. C. A Power& Steers Ettlinger Vedder Avenue Third Ward Borough of Richmond Bernardsville, N. J Post & Reese Thomas Hunt Bernardsville N.J Wyckoff the Building Department Dewey Robert J. Bailey Levere Rose Harlan F. Stone Nursery and Child's Hospital Kingston Corse Mary Todd St. Nes Briggs St, Ns Lenox Alonzo N Hattie M. “Hillman Vidorf Funken Christina College Av Nathan Marcus Frances ‘Aronson Lyon Grace Tolf Victor Carolina Mihm John E. Bullwinkel New ‘York & Harlem Railroad Co Wakefield Calentiee Ae Edy Ake Tae 800 Freund, Henry, To John G. Scharf Trinity Av Kasser Catharine Julia Brandt Bathgate Aves Prior Koelsch- “Huerner Co Aaron Warth St Briggs, AV Than Albert Mamlock Parker Morrisanta Levinson Leo John Cromwell Brook Burge George” Hirsch Louis Meyer Realty Jacob Sain al” Adams Borden Avenue Queens Borough Hall Longsland Charles J. Caldwell Arckt Trolley Company’s Indorsing Rockaway the United Service New York Times Army the Navy Long Island Garden City Lis Pendens
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