Real Estate Market Holds Cautious Yet Bright Tone in City
Real estate brokers report a dull market yet note rising activity in Manhattan and the Bronx. Large investors eye blocks from Broadway near Eighty second Street to Hunt’s Point as mortgage capital floods the market and multiple properties change hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Eighty-second
Highty Third Streets
New York
Morningside
Washington Heights
Bronx
Hunt's Point
Auction Sales This Week Dates and Properties Listed
Auction listings for Monday to Friday detail properties in New York area including tenements, hotels, stores and vacant lots. Referees include Adam Wiener F W Pollock J A Light Samuel Strasbourger A T Davison and others with amounts due ranging from about 1 479 to 75 397 and collateral notes on mortgages and partitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph P. Day
Tadison Av
Samuel Strasbourger
A. T. Davison
Gouverneur St
Cherry St
F. X. McCullum
Avenue A
Toth St
M .H. Ellison
Premont
Lispenard St
A. J. Cohen
Mortgage loan opportunities on Manhattan property
Firms advertise ready first mortgage loans on improved Manhattan real estate. Principals only. quick action and reasonable charges. Contacts include STHW ART CO at 39 East 420 Street, George Sumner at Pune Street, Rector phone 2390, and S.C. Corbin at 10 Wall Street along with Alvan W. Perry at 20 Nassau Street offering 42% mortgage money and 5 percent rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Sthw.art CO
East 420
George Sumner
Pune
St. Louns
Marmhattan Real Estate
FLOY
S.C Scorbin
Wall ST
Alvan W. Perry
Nassau_ St
Brady
Broadway
Neighborhood Building Permits for Multiple Dwellings
Detailed listing of proposed new buildings and alterations across multiple Brooklyn sites. Includes street locations such as Riverside Drive and Garfield Street, apartment houses and brick tenements, owner names like Schwartz and Gross and C. P. H. Gilbert, architects, and estimated costs ranging from 1,800 to 180,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
96Th St
Riverside Drive
Meteor Realty and Construction Co
Schwartz & Gross
Ssth St
B. N. Duke
5Th Av
C. P. H. Gilbert
Mead St
AO Ft
Garfield St
Joseph ‘Lynen
Sullivan St
Timothy J. Kelly
Needham Avy
Elms St
Carmel Cennatella
Needham Av
Legal notices of property disputes and contract bids
A sequence of property addresses and legal actions shows lawsuits filed by or against property owners and contractors. Amounts range from 275 to 1900 dollars. Parties include John Norton JT Ouis Meryash Morris Steinheimer Rose Brothers Samuel Golding Henry G Silleck Jr Sanitary Devices Mfg Co Parkview Co and Terra Cotta Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
156Th ST
John Norton
Ouis Meryash
Broadway
Edwin Dumble
Morris Steinheimer
McCracken & Madill
Anderson
Mechanics' Liens Filed Against Wallach and Partners
Two liens filed in 1908 against Emily M Wallach by Mitchell and Burgess claim $85 and $51 respectively for properties at 540 West 1530 Street. A Commonwealth AY case Meyer Polstein et al. sues Max Lax et al. on Nov 4 1967 for $147 in similar proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wea J
Mitchell
Emily M. Wallach
Alxander Burgess
Commonwealth AY
Meyer Polstein
Max Lax
Foreclosure Notices From Fore Mansions and Mortgagees
William G. Gaston sues Clement M. Silverman et al for foreclosure of mortgage at Fordham and North 5d Avenue area with parcel details and judges. John Friedrich sues Patrick J. Moffatt et al for foreclosure of mortgage at 932 and 954 East Street with attorney C H Friedrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fordham
North
Tist St
William G. Gaston
Clement M. Silverman
Orr
Istth ST
John Friedrich
Patrick
J. Moffatt
C. H. Friedrich
Real Estate firm notes near complete sale on Faile Street houses
The American Real Estate Company reports that out of twenty two two family houses built on Faile Street only one remains unsold. In its non elevator apartment houses there is no vacancy while on the elevator house on the Southern Boulevard there are six untenanted suites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Real Estate Company
Faile Street
Big Bronx Operation Expands Two-Family Homes
The George F. Johnsons Sons Co moved from Longwood Avenue to Hunt's Point about a year and a half ago, buying over 400 lots. They sold eighteen Manida Street front lots to Meehan Building Co led by James F. Meehan, who will begin twelve two family houses opposite twelve more. John Rendall has sold all fourteen planned houses on the Hunt's Point side. Meehan's project and a companion street paving, gas main, and sewer works aim to start early spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Johnson
Developing Midwood Manor in Flatbush Brooklyn
Midwood Manor in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a Wood Harmon development, undergoes complete street paving with Macadam roads and stone sidewalks. A full sewer water and gas system is installed per city specs and conduits for electric light and telephone are laid to prevent future upheaval. John R Corbin Company purchases 100 lots, with eighteen homes already underway priced around $10,000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwood Manor
New Wood
Harmon
Flatbush
Broooklyn
John R.corbin Company
Corbin Company
Real Estate Transfers Recorded Saturday September 26
Realty transfers listed for 149th Street to DeKalb Avenue and adjacent Bronx blocks include George Schaefer selling to Charles Weilersdorf for 19000 dollars and multiple parcels on Marmion Avenue Wyse Estate and Daily Estate. Names include Bergen Bel lows Noone Tanaro and Ludford with mortgage amounts noted. lot sizes range up to 62x100 and properties span Avenue A to Park Avenue with various 100 dollar or 100 dollar plus recording fees.
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Mughel
E'S
181St
Filomena Tesure
Magdalena Marx
Daily Estate
Bronx
Carmine Tanaro
Carmelo Tanaro
Carmelo
Avenue
Henry Schwartz
Eva Schwartz
Lohbauer Park
Lohbauer Park Improvement Co
William F
Aon
East
Samuel Sobel
Sarah Nailer
Marion AV
197Th St
Ottilia Hackel
Thomas A. Dwyer
Dekalbav
Centre Line
Francis Ludford
Jarrard L. Welch
Hughes
Alfred J. Talley
William O’ Connor
PARK
Ses
156Th St
George Doutney
Thomas N. Doutney
Thomas Malcolm
ST. Nicholas Ayv
Ath St
Willam F. Faker
William Ruhler
Cmtg
August Knauff
John Scharmann
Courtlandt
Charles
George Schaefer
S.s
Luther la Kellogg
Augustus Clason
West
Luther L. Kellogg
Fast
S S
Morris Weisberger
Emma Reyerson
Rosalie Brasch
Ettie B. Katz
Sam Sobel
Sarah Nadler
Victor A. Lever
Israel Schneittacher
John Muth
Meta
Mithi
Charles Sigg
Jessie C. Bailey
Emilie Kalman
Joseph Coldiantz
Siu
New Title Insurance Company Moves to 160 Broadway Build
The Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Company completed its relocation from Liberty Street to a new 16 story Broadway building. The move consolidates its departments including the trust unit with deposits over 10 million, surveying staff of 75, and a blue print room on the roof. The seventh floor houses the title examination offices and the plant on floors four and three stores title records and search capabilities for rapid property records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust Company
Chamber of Commerce
Liberty Street
Broadway
Maiden Lane
Trust Department
Edwin W. Coggeshall
Louis V. Bright
Thorwald Stallknecht
Bureaus of Investment
E. B. Lovell
Engineering Department
Columbia University
New York
Register
Equitable
Profitable alteration at Lincoln Square
Architect Alfred H. Taylor converts 138 West Sixty fifth Street from dwelling to offices with a ground floor store and ten bachelor two room suites on the upper floors. The project increases annual income from 1990 to 7401 by expanding uses as nearby owners anticipate rising demand for attractive store and office space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Sixty-fifth Street
Lincoln Square
Alfred H. Taylor
Sixty-fifth’ Street
Levi P Morton acquires Ellerslie Court in Washington Heights
Prominent six story apartment building on Broadway between 140th and 141st Streets named Ellerslie Court after purchase by ex Gov Levi P Morton. Agent Frederick Zittel opens a branch office in the building as part of a push to maintain high standards. The 145th Street Station area has rapidly developed into a potential new business hub, with Broadway and 145th Street emerging as a cross-town thoroughfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
140Th
141St
Upper Broadway
141St Streets
Levi P. Morton
Ellerslie Court
Morton
Frederick Zittel
145Th Street
Washington Heights
Sealate 125Th Street
Harlem
Ellerslie Court Apartments
Schermerhorn Sells Southampton Dune Land to Talmage
Alfred E. Schermerhorn sold four acres on the dunes at Southampton S I to Edward T H Talmage for the heirs of Dr F E Beckwith. For 1909 rentals Schermerhorn closed cottages on Main Street to Goelet Gallatin and Mrs G M Dodge and Hampton Court on Ox Pasture Road to Alexander M White for Dr H Holbrook Curtis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred E. Schermerhorn
Southampton
S. I
F. E. Beckwith
Harris
Edward T. H. Talmage
Mr. Schermerhorn
Mary E. Herrick
Main Street
Goelet Gallatin
James Henry Fierson
G. M. Dodge
H. Holbrook Curtis
Hampton Court
Ox Pasture
Alexander M. White
Budget Alternatives Highlight Salary Increases' Real Cost
The Bureau of Municipal Research explains that salary hikes for city workers seem small in round figures but require vast tax or property costs. It compares requests from Water Supply, Tenement House, and other departments to what that money could fund in schools, nurses, and public services, and notes the tax burden on property values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Municipal Research
Budset
Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity
Rock “Ier Institute
Produce Exchange
United Chatrities
Phuza
Third Avenue Railroad seeks cross bridge franchise
Permission is sought in the Supreme Court by Receiver Whitridge of the Third Avenue Railroad Company to operate cars across the Blackwell's Island Bridge to Long Island City. The move would connect Third Avenue tracks to the bridge plaza loop and may trigger further franchise requests from other lines.
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Supreme Court
Whitridge
Third Avenue Railroad
Compdway
Blackwells Island
Long Island City
Third Avenue
Bridge Plaza
Queens
Thie New Bridge
Mideliy
Fifty-ninth Street Company
Metropolitan Street
Getti Manhattan
Bizdwell’s Island Bridge
Williamsburg Ridge
Third Avenue Street Railway Company
C. H. Finlay
Rickert-Finlay Realty Company
East River
Manhattan
East River Heights
Luong Island City
Buying on Long Island A flurry of recent sales reported
Jamaica Estates and Broadway Flushing listings show multiple plots changing hands including a 100 by 120 corner lot at Radnor and Kent Roads and a 2 plot 16 by 150 area at Aberdeen and Doncaster. Westmoreland, Douglas Manor, East River Heights, Malba and Summit Place see transactions with buyers named Nelson Benedict Olsson Sandbers Cohn Stentus and others. The purchaser of Summit Place intends to build a dwelling valued at 15000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica Estates
Radnor and
Kent Roads
Tudor Road
Tryon Road
Aberdeen Road
Doncaster Boulevard
Rickert-Finkly Realty Company
Westmoreland
Charles Nelson
Bayview Avenue
Summit Avenue
Iso
George L. Benedict
Twenty-ninth Street
Franconia Avenue
Douglas Manor
Luella M. Cohn
Arleth Road
Centre Drive
East River Heights
Thomas Stentus
4Sa Place
Barclay Street
The
Realty Trust
Malba
Whitestone
Keening Place
Fighteenth Street
Maliba Drive
Rirhiteenth Street
Eighteenth Stree
Troulevard
North Shore Auction Sale in Broadway Flushing area
Joseph P Puy announces the first auction in Broadway Flushing Queens Borough for 460 lots on Ort 21. The sale of Vesey Street rooms 460 by order of the Prowway Punishing Company highlights new transit access via Broadway Station and North Shore branch, with trolley lines, electric connections, and city water sewer improvements anticipated. Meriden Building Company, led by Jensemin BB Weoers, plans twenty two family houses on Twenty-fifth Street Broadway Flushing and will file plans this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queans Borough
Broadway Flushing
Joseph Ppuy
Vesey Street
Nuide
Broadway
North Shore
Long Island
Heilront
Blackwell's Island Brides
Lang Ishin
Belmont
Queens
Meriden Building Company
Jensemin BB. Weoers
Fivnsdwas-Blushing Company
Twenty-fifth Street
Brodway-Plishing
Crestwood Heights Sales Report At Central Parkway Realty
Westchester activity notes sales at Crestwood Heights with Robert W W Iverson, William J McDonald, and Thomas J O'Brien receiving plots near Pine Places and Hollywood Avenue. Iverson plans a bungalow replica after Seattle visit. McDonald and O'Brien budgeted at 15000 and 14000 dollars respectively. Additional plots sold to T O Neil E Noonan Thomas A Burke William Treeker Walter Lo Bowne and Robert H Cope at Reynolds Kennedy and Hollywood areas.
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CC. H. Bradner
Central Parkway Realty Company
Crestwood Heights
Tuckahoe
Robert W W. Iverson
William J. McDonald
M. Reid & Co
Pine Places
Hollywood Avenue
Thomas J. O'Brien
Mat Pine Place
Tollywood Avenue
Mr. Iverson
Victor Herbert
Seattle
MacDonald
O'Brien
T. O'Neil
Gaby
Pine Place
Westchester Avenue
T E. Noonan
Thomas A. Burke
Reynolds Avenue
Kennedy Place
William Treeker
Ikennedy Place
Walter Lo Bowne
Kerjoedy Pace
Robert H. Cope
Flollywood Avenue
Shorefront bungalow plots include 100 foot water rights
James Jay Smith offers bungalow sites with water rights extending 100 feet into the Judson River, though few shorefront properties carry lending rights. The sale highlights the unusual drainage and waterfront access associated with these plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jay Smith
Judson
Bergen County Faces Proposed Hackensack Boulevard Extension
The Bergen County Board of Freeholders weighs opening a new boulevard from Hackensack to the 130th Street ferry boosting land value along the route. In Leonia the Leonia Heights Land Company has developed a large Broad Avenue tract and erected thirty dwellings, signaling rising demand.
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Bergen County
M. 1) Board of Freeholders
Hackensack
130Th Street
Leonia
Leonia Keights Lant Company
Broad Avenue
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H. C. Senior & Co
George B. Baford
West Ninety-third Street
City Mortgage Company
Sun Construction Company
113Th Street
98Th Street
Ninety-eighth Street
Meteor Realty Company
Isaac Polstein
Nestine Marks
West Fifteenth Street
Silas Wodell
Sidney L. Smyth
East Thirty-ninth Street
Henry Brady
Martha L. Brawn
West Eighty-fifth Street
Brawn
Misses F4y
Sixty-fourth Street
Cowles
Sixtyfo
Elizabeth Street
Charles ‘R. Farald
Prince and Elizabeth Streets
Prince Street
May J. Barrett
Alice Y. Murray
Duross
West Twentieth Street
Belle D. Penton
Jennie E. Laverty
Findlay Avenue House
Ullman
H. H. Morret
Findlay Avenue
O’lara Brothers
Halvorson
Longfellow “Avenue
Frances DP. McQuade
Carter Avenue
Waytack
Webster "Avenue
Conroy
Hackel
Marion Avenue
Sutorowski
230Th Street
Barnes Avenue
Whitehall Realty Company
Paychester Avenue
Pitman
Edson and
Pitman Avenues
Edenwald Land Companies
Monticello Avenue
Randall Avenue
Samuel Isaac
Murdock Avenue
Jefferson Avenue
Harris Marcus
Samuel Brenner
Jones Avenue
Philip Price
Pratt Avenue
Nelson Avenue
Thomas Kennedy
Wright Avenue
Thomas F. Conklin, Jr
Edgemere, L. I
Bay Avenue
Rochester Avenue
Edgemere Club
Edgemere
L.I
West 100Th Street
Edgecombe Avenue
137Th Street
Kennelly
Fifty-ninth
Sixtieth Streets
Lexington Avenue
109Th Street
Samuel Marx
Peck Slip
Hamilton
Madison Strets
Gramercy Park House
Sam Goldsticker
No. 12
Struc
Charles C. Bull
Gramercy Apartments
Warrington Aartment
Madison Avenue
Washington and
Eleventh Streets
Charles A. Berrian
West Broadway
Lispenard Street
Cathedral Parkway
Highth Avenue
Caesar
Rome
West Avenue
West Seventh and Eighth Streets
West Seventh Street
Bryan L. Kennelly
Samuel .Marx
49Th St
Adam Wiener
127Th St
Lenox Av
F. W. Pollock
Hoffman St
189Th St
J. A. Light
West Av
West 7Th St
Seetery
Hugh D. Smyth
Park Av
151St St
Joseph P. Das
St. Av
R. L. Tarbox
10Th Av
S. L. H. Ward
Washington St
11Th St
S. H. Weinhamler
Morris Avne
164Th St
T. W. McKnight
D. P. Ingraham & Co
S. Li
Ward
Joseph FE
HarrisonsAy
Cohen
Madison Av
J. B. Ireland
A. H. Townley
Une
Wilashite Llons
Cedar Street
the Building Department
Crow
St. George’s Crescent
Grand 3 Boulevard
Maria del Gaizo
Robert Glenn
Lis Pendens
Big Bronx
Hunt’s Point
Becker
Title Guarantee and Trust Co
30Th St
Bellows
Charles H., Jr
Mary B. Noone
Wyse
Goa
Marienhoff
Johannes
Isidore Buchmeier
Mapes Estates
Amalia
Naretts Anderson
Jan DO
PIRK
Louis Gates
Metropolitan. Real.’ Estate Association
Welch
Jerrard L
de Kalb Av
Loftie F
Caroline Roll
de Hoxlis
G. Jue
O'Connor
William
Susan H. Wilkinson
College St. Ns
Hughes Av
Slaweon
George
Anna
M. “Baxman
169Th St
Aone
Clason
Augustus
Chubbard W
Ti! Insurance and Trust Co
Madison Ee
Gieelen
Greenstein
Samuel
Herman Ch
Herman Ficht
Vent
Fioravanti
Germany
Albert H. Marwell
St. Ns
Grand
Fiorav
ANTI
John E. Alex
Birchall
Mary FE
Hoyt
White Plains Road
Ry Wwilliam F
Levins
Elizabeth
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Morris
Shakespeare
Kalb Av
Gun Hill Road
Once and Trust Co
Lohbauer
Mitchell, Hubbard
Florence C. von Wecrlty
Trank
J.mulgann Am
Dona
le Lacs
Dwyer
Thomas ‘A
Ta Title Guarantee and Trust Co
Marion Ay
Sattz
Hang
Rosenfeld
Fannie
Fagie Savings and Loan Co
White Plains
Morris Park
Wohnsiedler
George H
Katharine Gass
Westchester
Cavanagh
Mapes
Elizabeth St
Agere
Title Insurance
Lawyers’ Company
West 65Th Street
Blackwell
West Drive
Richmond Road
Douglas Manor, L. 1
Jamaica
North Shore Auction Sale
Flushing
Hudson
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