Extending Electric Zone on Hudson River Division
Officials of the New York Central have completed arrangements to extend the electric zone from High Bridge to Yonkers on March 29. Daily meetings between electric and operating departments are underway with instruction for motormen conductors and signalmen. A factory fire delaying parts pushed the start date from March 1 by about a month. Work north of Yonkers is progressing and the electric system will reach Harmon soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Hudson River
High Bridge
Yonkers
Harmon
Real estate market edges toward cautious revival on Broadway area
The week shows limited activity with the Heights remaining a focal point for apartment sales and land plots. Major deals include Harting House sale on Fifth Avenue and Vesey Street auctions, while brokers report varying bids and steady interest in downtown properties, Beekman Street to Lexington Avenue blocks, and new office and school leases uptown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Proadway
West Street
Riverside Drive
Park
Harding
Fifth Avenue
East Eighty-eighth Street
Eat Sixty-third Street
Park and
Lexington Avenues
Hartinghouse
Bridgham i
Twenty-third Street
Beekman
Ansau
Woldings
Vesey Street
Meeks
Auction Sales This Week Foreclosure and Partition Notices
Foreclosure and partition auctions listed for March 24 and 25 in Manhattan streets. Properties include multiple foreclosures on 99th to 171st Street corridors, with referees named James Kearny D I Cohalan John J Halpin Arthur Truax and others. Due on judgment sums range from about 1 to 52 thousand dollars, subject to existing mortgages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph P. Day
Central Park West
Charles J. Hardy
Fiushes Av
James Kearny
D. Phoenix Ingrahan & Co
Audubon Av
Arthur Truax
Executors Sale Prominent New York Properties
Auction notices list multiple real estate parcels for executors sale public auctions. Properties include six story brick tenements with stores on Park Avenue area and brownstone dwellings along Lenox Avenue, Sedgwick Avenue, and Lenox. foreclosures and partition sales noted with referees and judgments.
Through Car Service Proposed From Fort Lee To Hoboken
Local improvements groups in Grantwood Palisade and Fort Lee push a through trolley without transfers to the Hoboken tunnel station aimed at shaving about fifteen minutes from Palisade residents trips to Lower Manhattan and saving five cents daily. Col Geine of the Public Service Corporation favors the plan noting reduced delays and direct tunnel access. The company currently operates Bergenline Avenue to the tunnel, with many travelers previously using ferries from Forty-second or Fourteenth Street to reach downtown. The Columbia Investment and Real Estate Company reports several sales including plots and residences in Grantwood Edgewater and Morsemere and Ridgewood developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grantwood
Palisade
Fort Lee
Public Service Corporation
Occet Tunnel
Hoboken
Col. Geine
Lower Manhattan
Bergenlins Avenue
New York
Fourteenth
Crescent Avenue
Charles A. Barth
Knox Avenue
Public Service
H. J. Lanz
Undercliff Avenue
Edgewater
John M. Meyers
Washington Avenue
Palisade Avenue
Cliff Front
Julia M. Lynch
Torrington
Conn
Linden Avenue
Morsemere
Ridgewood Development and Construction Company
Ethelbert Avenue
Ridgewood
N.J
Ridgewood land sales extend across Bergen properties
Ridgewood Land and Improvement Company moves twenty two Inland Terrace lots in Hackensack and several parcels on Saddle River Road Lenox Avenue Van Dien Avenue and George Franklin Henry Streets Harrington Park New Jersey. Buyers include Carman M Smith R C Stoddard C H Dayton and others with multiple residential plots and a farm. Steven B Ayres reports sales to various buyers across Harrington Park and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inland Terrace
Hackensack
N. J
Steven B. Ayres
George, Frankin, and
Henry Streets
Harrington Park
aNe
Time Table Revisions Highlight New Queens Transit Links
Real estate firms in Queens report transit gains from the Blackwell's Island Bridge and four Pennsylvania tunnels linking the two boroughs. A Rickert Finley diagram estimates minimum 15 minute savings between points, with average gains around 30 minutes and near hour-long cuts for short trips like Central Park Plaza to Long Island City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queens Borough
Blackwell's Island
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Rickert-Finley Realty Company
Central Park Plaza
Long Island City
Herald Square
Belmont Tubes
Queens
New York
Auction of Talcott Estate Property in Inwood
Joseph P Day conducts an auction Thursday for Harriet M Talcott estate property on Belton Road just north of Dyckman Street. The listing includes a three and a half acre plot with a large three story dwelling in the Inwood section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph P.day
Inwood
Harriet M. Talcott
Belton Road
Dyckman Street
Long Island Purchases Reported by West Rockaway Group
Walter Schulze of West Rockaway Land Co reports Belle Harbor sales to Katharine Claffy for 1600 dollars and to E G Connelly for 1800 dollars. Six new Belle Harbor dwellings underway. Various plots sold in Broadway Flushing Westmoreland East River Heights Floral Park Valley Stream North Babylon Park and Lone Island City special trains leave Flatbush Avenue and Lone Island City stations today at 1 20 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Schulze
West Rockaway Land Company
Belle Harbor
Katharine Claffy
Oxford Avenue
E. G. Connelly
Michael Albert
Dennison Avenue
Lincoln Bonneau
Norfolk Avenue
R. Borte
Suffolk Avenue
Rickert-Finlay Realty Company
Broadway-Flushing
Orlon
Ida C. Baker
Twenty-second Street
State Street
Westmoreland
Hais
William O. Pratt
Glenwood Avenue
Summit Avenue
Melena L. Merkle
Glenwood and
Cutter Avenues
Thomas J. Robinson
Nassau Road
East River Heights
Christian Bauer
Barclay Street
Murion Place
McCormack Real Estate
Cypress Street
Sycamore Avenue
Floral Parkway
Plainfield Avenue
Floral Park
Valley Stream
Everett Park Development in Central Jamaica Growth Outlook
A letter to Everett Park owners notes rapid central Jamaica expansion from Truston Street to Hillside Boulevard with intersections at Carlton Colonial Judd and Willett Avenues. It cites 3B. A. Woolward of the Long Island Railroad predicting Jamaica as a key traffic hub and a population not less than 251,000 within years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Everett Park
Truston Street
Hillside Boulevard
Carlton
Colonial
Judd
Willett
Woolward
Long Islukt Reiroad
Long Island
Tunnels to Benefit Colonies Beyond the Palisades
Growth prospects rise on the western slope of the Palisades as the McAdoo tubes improve link to Manhattan and a West Shore Traction high speed line is granted. Leonia shows substantial development with thorough street work and a new country club chartered on historic grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palisades
Leonia
McAdoo
New Jersey
Manhattan
West Shore Traction Company
Highspeed
Hoboken
Foreclosure Sale of Lawlor Property and Tenement Details
Sheriff sale to liquidate Norman A. Lawlor interest in a five story brick building at 96th Street to West End Avenue area. Edward Browne referee handles due on judgment of $1,623 with Oct 15 1907 sale date. Includes three story tenement and vacant parcels as specified in the foreclosure proceeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Avenue
Athilde Brigot
Cantrell
A.er
W. Cregan
John Ely
West
Thirty-Seventh
Lower & Cochran
Gertrude A. Ee
Broadway
Eisth Street
D- Phoenix Ingraham & Co
Grand St
Sheriff
J. Gottomly
Peter F. Meyer
Iard Browns
Joseph P. Day
Eas
Arthur Hurst
Alien
Broome St
Carlisle Norwood
Southern Boulevard
Avenue &J. John
Iegee Fromm
James L. Wella
Amsterdam
Max
Levine
Samuel Marx
East
Park Av
Arthur Johns
10Th Av
1834
Lenox Av
Qi Av
Ooes
51St St
Both St
White Plaing Road
Warren Leslie
Ston St
Hugh RB. Gorden
Lawrence Cohen
Herbert A. Sherman
Bainbridge Av
Building Department Plans for Multiple City Dwellings
The Building Department lists plans for several new structures including six story brick terraces at 81 81 for Union Construction and Realty Co owners Bernstein and Bernstein architects cost 25000 and two story frame dwellings on Undercliffe Ave and Listh Bt with costs and architects named. Other entries include a two story dwelling on 350 ft w of Paulding Ave and two two story dwellings at 475 ft w of White Plains Ave with stated owners and architects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Chambers
Union Construction and Realty Co
Park Row
Bernstein & Bernstein
Undercliffe
Washington Bridge Park
John F. Kaiser
Frankfort Bt
T. Lockhart Smith
Listh Bt
Paulding Av
Real Estate Transfers Listed in City Records
Saturday notices show transfers and mortgages across Manhattan addresses from East 57th to West Broadway. Key parties include Hyman Berman EB L Fisterstein Adela Spielvogel Meyer Bruckner and multiple entries to Lawyers Realty Co and Andrew Scoble with varied mortgage amounts up to 153,100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otth ST
Meyer Bruckner
John H. Meyer
Stth ST
Joseph Chirin
Wolf Rubwitz
Courtlandt Ay
David H. Sarfaty
Andrew H. Scoble
Rae
Wakefield
Carrie
Sarfaty
Andrew H Scoble
Wakee
Bomi
David M. Sarfaty
Andrew
Property suit listings from city construction cases
A series of owner and contractor lawsuits are listed with street locations from 100th to 1330th Streets. Plaintiffs include Simon Lanner Kalman Altholtz Henry Diehl Louis Strause Henry Geis and Marx Jacobson. Defendants include various owners and contractors with sums due ranging from 7 500 to 359 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Lanner
Simon Wohlsfelder
Abraham Weinberg
B. M. Thompson & F.o
Kalman Altholtz
David Pololsky
Miller
Henry Diehl
Joseph Doelger
Charles A. Doelger
Joulse Doe
Bernard Mackell
Goerck St
Marx & Jacobson
Joseph Goldfein
Mechanics Lien Action on 213th Street Property
Suits filed by Whit Pletn Reed Garfein and Kehr against Collett Arta and Co for a satisfied mechanics lien on 213th Street parcels 180 feet in length dated January 20 1908 for $50 and related claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed, Garfein& Kehr
Collett
Arta & Co
Foreclosure and claim actions listed on multiple streets and parcels
A legal notice of foreclosure and mortgage actions filed by various plaintiffs, including Joan Corben, Ernst Thalmann, Frank McGarry, West Side Savings Bank, Edwin T. Gie, FB Mason & Co, Max Lipman, Bernhard Mayer, and others. Attorneys named include S Williamson, A L Westcott, Kramer & Bourke, D MeIlure, D S Decker, Kuntz & Oppenheim, Lashman & Goldsmith, and I S Heller. Cases span Jackson Ave to Riverside Drive with multiple parcels and dates unspecified.
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Jackson AV
Westerly
Joan Corben
Frank
M. Hill
S. Williamson
Azith ST
Audubon
Ernst Thalmann
Sadie Reich
A. L
Westcott
Westfield
Frank McGarry
John Stahl
Kramer & Bourke
West Side Savings Bank
John T. Kirk
D. Me‘lure
Arthur ST
Laconia Park
Edwin T. Gie
Harrymean
Decker
Riverside Drive
FB. Mason & Co
Robert T. Lyons
Kuntz & Oppenheim
New twelve story fireproof apartments planned by Gramercy Park
James A. Campbell of Alden Hall Corp signed with Godfrey Emsley Construction to build a twelve story fireproof apartment building on a plot by 100 east of Gramercy Park. The site, purchased from Robert Jones, will cost 300002 dollars and be finished by November 1. The Colonial styled exterior by architect William Albert Swasey features duplex suites on floors one and two and twenty four rooms for servants at the rear of duplex units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Campbell
Alden Hall Corporation
Godfrey-Emsley Construction Company
Gramercy Park
Robert Jones
William Albert Swasey
New Apartment House for Gramercy Park
Cape May experiments show grass and rye cover on beach sand to stabilize dunes and beautify views. Soil expert Edgar Hollister and Dr. Voorhees analyze salt content and oversee seeding with oats and rye, proving practical low cost landscaping for coastal sands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape May
Edgar J. Hollister
Hollister
Cape May City
BE. B. Voorhees
New Jersey
Acre
Atlantic
New York Realty Owners acquire Linn estate near Belmont
The New York Realty Owners Company expands its northern Bronx holdings by purchasing the Linn estate adjoining Bel mont, a move that consolidates a major tract along Jerome and Yonkers Avenues. Belmont sits just north of Van Oorts Park on a plateau above tidewater and is poised for development with elevated routes along Jerome and Webster Avenues. The Linn property will be renamed Bronxmont as part of a strategic growth plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
van Oorts Park
Tidewater
Jerome and Yonkers Avenues
Webster and Yonkers Avenues
Jerome
Webster Avenue
Linn Estate
Bronxmont
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Vine
St.George
Cliff St
Charles F. Noyes
St. George
Beekman Street
Gre Street
Inde Paper Company
J. L. Mott Tron Works
J. G. Bassman
Henry Steinkamp
145Th Street
Duyer
Moore Company
Frances A. Brittain
John Elle Logan
John N. Golding
Wiliam R. Willcox
Public Service Mission
David B. Sampson
En City Investing
New York Law School
Fulton Street
Law School
Broadway Corner
East Hist Street Purchase
Hiram Rinaldo & Brother
Forohn A. McCarthy
George Finck
Fold Brothers
E. H. Laudlow & Co
William Tim Falconer
Nineeenth Street
Hugo Saar
Nineteenth Street
M. Thompson
St Forty-first Street
E. McCarthy
Thirteenth Street
Charlotte Illiams
Times Square
IA. Barton
West Forty-second
Strace
Nathan Hirrowitz
Thirty-second Street
Samueliner
Hubert Becker
Charles Cohen
Goodman Stielholtz
George ‘Pen
Charles
Bronx
Bates & Desting
Stebbins Avenue
Freean Street
Emil Rohitzek
134Th
Benjamin Jackson
Isith Street
Kurz & Uren
Leo. Levinson
Valentine
Ryer Avenue
Charles Zimmermann, Jr
Ree & Silverman
John Wood
Bryant
Whitehall Realty Company
Nereid Ave
Ely Avenue
J. Reynolds
Alfred & Lot
Amster
Ee Avenue
Pelham Road
Ward
Francis BE. Ward
Real Estate Board of Brokers
West Side Young Men's Christian Association
Jran
Uyers
Westchester Properties
Burke Stone
Lawrence Park
Erty
Bernardsville
Post & Reese
Claremont
Hiss
George B
Staten Island
Cornelius G. Kelff
Emerson Hill
Staten
Charles T. Brown
Brown
Snie of
Far Rockaway
Herman Frankfort
Wallace
Prospect Place
Rockaway
W. Lowenstein
Mesk
Bryan L. Kennelly
Daniel O'Day
West Seventy-second Street
Smith. Armstrong
Seventh Avenue
Hush Slevin
Ninetetenth Street
131St Street
133D
Fortyfifth
Second Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Stiewick Avenue
167Th Street
Fortieth Street
Fot
Ninety-ninth Street
Washington Heights Corner
Audubon Avenue
189Th Street
Longwood Avenue
Beck and
Fox Streets
the Ltd (Olds
Ee & Co
Avenue St. John
40Th St
7Th Av
D. I. Cohalan
Rivington St
Lewis St
John J. Halpin
F. T. Fitzgerald
Ll. J. Phillips
Longwood
Beck End
D. Phoenix Ingraham & Co
165Th St
Spellissy, Pateres
Shore St
Golten Road
Dyckman &T
Tinton Av
Sedgwick Av
187Th St
Lawrence Av
186Th St
45Th St
11Th Av
Weinan
Ree BS
Joseph P
Ceballos
McAdoo Terminal
North Shore
New
the Building Department
15Th ST
Frank Tilford
Lawyers’ Realty Co
Bruckner Brothers
Abram Abramowitz
Taylor ST
van Neet Park
John Haut
Sarah Krammer
Maze Realty Co
Harry Aronson
J. Oakley Hobby
Emma F. Hooby
Morris Simon
Louie Simon
Isador Cuba
Max Waslikovsky
112Th ST
Lexington
Berliner & Greenberg
Business Men's Realty Co
ST. S S
Benjamin Netberg
Sun Construction Co
Henry ST
Scammel St
Max Washkoyne
114Th ST
Glascow Realty. Co
Mary Robinson
106Th ST
Jessie M. Proctock
Michael Scanlon
Washington
Mitchell Lehman
Charles Lehmian
Pleasant
Ith St
Samuel Greenberg
Minnie
Annie Greenberg
Port 68 Branch
Louis- Reiter
Rebecca Cohen
Josephine van Boskerck
Lizzie van Boskerck
T. Nw
Arthur R. Parsons
Ralph M. Holzman
Old Boston Road
Elizabeth St
Otfnville
Dina Conrad
Rosa Muller
Century Investing Co
Gustav A. Brandt
Louise A. Mayer
Henrietta Parden
Old Broadway
Marie Ruess
Edward Wackerhagen
Old
Old Broadwayx, 68, W.11 Tt N of 12Is¢ St. 1x — X1.1x95. Marie Ruess
Charles Fischer
Joseph Jacobs
Samuel Schwab
Nathan Lirch
Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church
Avenue St. Nicholas
Klammer
Sarah
Henry M. Powell
Friedrich
Henry C
Title Guarantee and Trust Co
Bathgate
Knowles
James P
William E. Thorn
Giles Place
W Os
Montgomery Place
Starr
Jennie
Timothy F. Sullivan
Franklin Av
170Th St
Abramowitz
Abram
Jacobson
Israel
Aaron Bloch
Market St
DE Leon Realty CO
Realty Equipment Ge
Gustav Lippman
Clarenda H
Whinstock
William
Conregation
Shearith Israel
Dochterman
Charles J
First
German Methodist Episcopal Church
10Th St
Avenue D
Hon Porges
Hanie
Frederick Lesser
17Th St
Ist
Muller
Rosa
Louisa Ebling
Old_ Boston Road
Bes Klausner
Samuel
Adolph Prince
Lis Pendens
W. Albert Swasey
Belmont
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