Standardizing Real Estate Valuations At West Side YMCA
Real estate expert Irving Ruland urges a central high character board to issue standardized appraisals. He notes wide disparities among leading appraisers and stresses district specialization, intimate property knowledge, and sustained income certainty as keys to reliable valuations.
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West Side Young Men's Christian Association
Irving Ruland
Ruland & Whiting Company
Ieading
Ruland
Fifth Avenue
Washington Heights
Upper West Side
Greenwich Village
Eguth
14Th Street
Board of Brokers
New York City
Hearden
Foreclosure Auction Results At Real Estate Exchange
The Victoria seven story apartment at 138th Street and Lenox Avenue sold for 219000 in foreclosure at Vesey Street salesroom, with about 26000 due and mortgages totaling 210500. Daily offerings included multiple properties in Manhattan and Staten Island with prices ranging from about 41000 to 9000, adjournments noted for December and January 12.
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Victoria
138Th Street
Lenox Avenue
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey Street
Selma Alexander
Real Estate Board Ties Appraisal Movement to Commission
In consultation the whole committee forms an appraisal by the Real Estate Board of Brokers. The movement toward such an appraisal committee is recent and slow to develop, but it represents the most reliable method for standardizing real estate appraisals in the city.
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New York
Bank loan increased on Hotel Belleclaire by Pease and Elliman
Pease and Elliman negotiated a loan of 625000 for five years on the Hotel Belleclaire at Broadway and 7th Street, owned by Albert Saxe, increasing an old savings bank mortgage by 100000. The old mortgage was 550000. The brokers have placed other loans ranging from 200000 to 400000 on high class apartment properties.
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Pease & Elliman
Belleclaire
Broadway
7Ith Street
Albert Saxe
Landmark Sixth Avenue site sold for about 300000
The Alliance Realty Company and D B Freedman sold the Monquin's restaurant site at 452 to 4% Sixth Avenue to John F Lambias for about 300000. Leopold Weil was the broker. The 89 by 100 foot parcel, with a three story brick and wooden building, fronts 89 feet south of 28th Street and is a longstanding landmark formerly known as the Knickerbocker Cottage.
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Monquin's
Sixth Avenue
John F. Lambias
Alliance Realty Company
D. B. Freedman
Leopold Weil
Pior
28Th Street
Property transfer at Broadway and Fifth Street in New York
Geo R Read and Co sold to James A McMillin by William Waldorf Astor a parcel on the northeast corner of Broadway and Fifth Street. Plot measures 75.8475 by 154 feet with an adjoining 100.11 foot side on Fifth Street.
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Geo. R. Read & Co
William Waldorf Astor
James.a. McMillin
Pior
Broadway
Ilith Street
Ghezireh Palace
Bank OF the Nile
Oriental Palace
Eping Car Co
Fifth Ave
New York
Baehler
Cairo
Real estate transfers in New York brokerage market
Douglas Robinson and partners sold for Mrs. Henrietta W. S. Wilson a three story dwelling at 52% Lexington Avenue on a 16.8 by 70 foot lot. The Patterson estate sold north side of 214th Street near Tenth Avenue. Asher Simon Realty sold 24 Eighth Avenue at 154th Street corner a five story flat on a 79 by 1 foot lot. L. E. Levy sold west side Broadway block front between 11th and 183rd streets a thirteen and a half lot plot. Robert T. McGusty sold 35 West 181st Street a four story dwelling on 18 by 15 foot lot for Wilmington Fire Insurance to William McMaster Mills who will reside at the Plaza Hotel.
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Lexington Ave
Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld Et al
H Nathan
A S Norton
F Altmayer
Wadsworth Ave
177Th St
Leowenthal
Tinsdale
So Boulevard
J Young
Belmont Ave
Pelham Ave
Margaret Lyons
G Squires
Atty
WS Burt
Br D P Ingramam
Lafayette Ave
New Brighton
Staten Island
G J Obrig
Edward C Martin
St. As
Sthave
P Schwab
Wainwright
M “Randell
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Hasbrouck
Joseph P Day
Rivington St
Cor
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Henrietta Sandler
Fuchs
J S Rosalskratty
Pickford
Newell Ave
ATS Ftn
Elizabeth St
Wakefield
Rachel Markens
Jamison
Nicholas Aleinikof
F Cochrane
Douglas Robinson
Charles S Brown & Co
Henrietta W. S. Wilson
New Amsterdam Realty Company
Lexington Avenue
Patterson
214Th Street
Tenth Avenue
Asher Simon Realty Company
Eighth Avenue
154Th Street
L. E. Levy
Francis Carlson
Patrick McNulty
Broadway
Robert T. MccGusty
West 1Sth Street
Wilmington Fire Insurance Company
William .McMaster Mills
Plaza Bank
Plaza Hotel
Mills
Consolidated Card Co to Expand Plant on West 14th Street
Plans filed to enlarge the Consolidated Card Company manufactory from No 222 to 228 West 14th Street with a one story annex Architect Arnold W Brunner Also for installing stores in nearby dwellings at Nos 148 and 150 West 45th Street owned by Lillian Abel and leased by Louis Goodman Architects Sommerfeld and Steckler Buildings to house new stores and expansion details filed for approval
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Consolidated Card Company
West 14Th Street
Arnold W. Brunner
West 45Th Street
Lillian Abel
Louis Goodman
Sommerfeld & Steckler
Value of Year's Crops in Final Department Estimates
Washington reports final revised Department of Agriculture figures for 1908 crop production and farm value as of December 1. Key products include corn 2,668,651,000 bushels valued at $1,816,145,000 and winter wheat 57,908,000 bushels valued at $410,338,000, with several other crops listed by bushels and values and unit weights for oats, barley, rye, flax seed, rice, tobacco, and hay.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Wiatoes
Bureau
Cardento King Trial Details Larceny Case In Boston
The trial of Cardento J. King opens in Boston with prosecutors outlining his business methods. Witnesses describe office practices, advertising schemes, and King’s disappearance under creditor pressure before his June plea of not guilty. The case proceeds to new testimony tomorrow.
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Boston
Cardento J. King
King
Herbert Parker
Michael J. Dwyer
Dwyer
Post Office
William B. Snow
J. Frank Davis
Snow
Davis
Government Opposes Tubes for Mail Service
A postwar commission says it is not feasible or desirable for the government to buy install or operate pneumatic tubes now in use in New York Philadelphia Boston Chicago St Louis and Brooklyn. It urges continued study and possible ownership review in five to six years.
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Congress
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Campbell
Chicago
Mansfield
Boston
Roberts
Brooklyn
Wyman
St. Louis
Joseph Stewart
Bradley
Railway Mail Service
Masten
Fry
Public Buildings Department
New York City
Hewitt Will Contest Opens In Owego Court
In Owego New York December 15 the fight to break the will of Frederick Hewitt begins before Surrogate Frank A Bell. Proponents and contestant clash over witnesses signatures and mental competence amid codicil disputes and alleged undue influence threatening bequests to relatives. Twenty five attorneys attend the proceedings.
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the Tribune
Owego
N. Y
Frederick
Hewitt
Frank A. Bell
Tioga County
Lynch
Staunchfield
Mr. Hewitt
William S. Truman
First National Bank of
Orin T. Gorman
New York
C. L. Stiles
Stanchfield
Bright
Sarah Peck
Real Estate Transactions in Hasbrouck Heights
The Duress Company sold a Madison Avenue house in Hasbrouck Heights to H. T. Sloan and leased No. 68 Washington Place for John J. Carrell, with Mr Kunts’s house on Madison Avenue also in Hasbrouck Heights.
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Lemmermann Villa Site Company
Madison Avenue
Hasbrouck Heights
H. T. Sloan
Washington Place
John J. Carrell
Mr. Kunts
Wasbrouck Heights
N. J
Yorkville Plans Elevator Apartment House Approved
A six story brick elevator apartment house is planned for 142 and 144 East 17th Street Yorkville. Owners Emeline F Parsons and Rosalie Slack will oversee construction with Buildings Superintendent Murphy. The $125,900 project features limestone trim and a Renaissance style facade by architects Lawlor and Haase.
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Murphy
Easterl Street
Emeline F. Parsons
Rosalier Slack
Lawlor & Haase
Realty notes on recent Manhattan leases and sales
The Atlas Realty Company bought a Riverside Drive plot south of 934 Street. Frederick Fox & Co with Albert B Ashforth leased 25,000 square feet on floors two and three of the Acker Merrall Condit Building at Fifth Avenue and 36th Street to Joseph Wild & Co, major rugs and linoleum dealers, for 65 000 dollars annually. McNally & Cochran leased fifth floor at 381 Fifth Avenue to A J O Donovan & Co for Isaac Peiler for a term of years. Harvey N Bloomer leased two stores at 4 and 21l West 125th Street to Hurtig Seamon for 2 terms and fixed 35 000 dollars, and the store at 120 West 125th Street to the Outlet Manufacturing Company via Samuel Isaacs.
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Atlas Realty Company
Riverside Drive
Duross Company
Frederick Fox & Co
Albert B Ashforth
Acker, Merrall & Condit
Fifth Avenue
36Th Street
Joseph Wild & O
Worth Street
Broadway
McNally & Cochran
Isaac Peiler
No. 381
A. J. O'Donovan & Co
H Harvey N. Bloomer
West 125Th Street
Harlem Music Hall
Hurtig & Seamon
Od's
Samuel Isaacs
Outlet Manufacturing Company
Bronx Building Plans on 239th Street and Nearby Avenues
Building projects listed with multiple owners including Hee A and John A. O Brien. Architects named such as Furman Avenue firm and Vincenzo Raezzeno involved. costs cited around 9 000 to 30 000 with several two to three story brick structures.
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Webster Ave
Vincenzo Raezzeno
Ivin Wilbur
Cost
Lyon
Martin Pletcher
Rae
Lane on Harriman decision limits and rail capital controls
Franklin K. Lane of the Interstate Commerce Commission said the Supreme Court ruling limits on the commission’s ability to compel answers, but does not greatly curb its powers. He urged stronger government oversight of railway capitalization to protect public money, noting Harriman used $1,000,000 from Union Pacific bond sales to buy stocks in other railways.
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Franklin K. Lane
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Supreme Court
Harriman
Commission
Union Pacific Railway
Union Pacific
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