Queens Market Active Signals Rising Value Ahead
Queens real estate activity surged last week with a transfer of title by Charlies 4 Peabody for William H. and A H. Russell of Princeton to William x Maxwell for 20 lots at Laurel Hill. Frontage and price details are noted as transit and supply improvements draw buyers. experts predict higher values in Queens as Manhattan rents push demand and new homes and offices rise in the borough.
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Queens
Charlies 4 Peabody
William H
A H. Russell
Princeton
N. J
William x. Maxwell
Laurel Hill
Montauk Division
Long Island Railroad
Newtown Avenue
New Calvary Cemetery
Herbert A. O'Brien
Queens Real Estate Exchange
Queens Borough
Manhattan
Real Estate Draws Investors to Penn Sylvania Tunnel Zone
Speculators and prominent investors show growing activity in midtown areas bounded by 2nd and 34th streets Ninth and Sixth avenues as plans for a tunnel link and terminal spur redevelopment. The Pennsylvan ia tunnel zone attracts capital while dry goods firms reposition near the new drygoods center in the tunnel district.
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R. H. Macy & Co
Saks & Co
Drygoods
Sixth Avenues
Sixth Avenue
Chelsea
Midtown Districts See Property Trades In Active Market
In Midtown districts buyers moved on two notable sales. Hotel Markwell No 29 at 28 West 48th Street sold last week through Clifford N. Shurman and Huston and Asinari. Builders' Exchange Building a twelve story fireproof loft and store at 29 to 35 West 324 Street sold last week by Pease and Elliman to Mrs Emily Benedict Hopkins.
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Markwell
West 48Th Street
Clifford N. Shurman
Huston
Builders’ Exchange
West 324 Street
Pease & Elliman
Emily Benedict Hopkins
Manhattan Island
Waldorf
Plaza
Chicago
West 32d
West 33d Street
Charles T. Barney
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Manhattan
Helen L. Gillender Asinari
Cifford M. Shurman and
Huston & Asinari
Robert M. Silverman Realty and Construction Company
West 17Th Street
West 49Th Street
William A. Riley
Gillender
West Broadway
Grand Street
East 36Th Street
William
Julius Manger
Moses Hopkins
Mark Hopkins
California
Hopkins Academy
Oakland
Cal
Hopkins
Herbert du Puy
Todd Brothers
Mr. du Puy
Robert E. Dowling
Lincoln Square
Dyckman
Realty Zone Growth Stalls as Subways Stir New York Market
The Pennsylvan ia and Long Island rail links spurred a vast buying wave in Manhattan’s tunnel area but major hotel and loft projects have not materialized. Big builders realty investors flash within a shifting zone as four blocks of 33d street and Seventh avenue replace old tenements while subway era buyers flood Washington Heights and The Bronx.
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334 Street
Seventh Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island
Manhattan Island
New Jersey
Real Estate Market Readjusts After Subway Zone Boom
The 1907 realty scene shows a retrenchment period ending as builders return to central districts. Hudson & Manhattan plans shift. site on Broadway between 32d and 33d streets may host a dry goods store rather than a tunnel terminal. Major trades include Mouquin's restaurant site sale and the Builders' Exchange building deal, signaling renewed loft and hotel development in Manhattan's tunnel region.
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Broadway
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island
Manhattan Island
New Jersey
Sion
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
Manhattan Theatre
Trainor’s Hotel
Pennsylvania
Seventh Avenue
Jefferson M. Levy
Mouquin's Restaurant
Sixth Avenue
Alliance Realty Company
Daniel B. Freedman
Leopold Weil
John F. Lambias
Two Property Types in Demand in West Street Loft Sale
An eleven story loft building at Nos. 17 and 19 West Fifth Street sold last week amid strong demand for urban properties. The deal underscores appetite for mixed use lofts in the downtown area and reflects a trend toward taller, high density redevelopment.
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West Yith Street
Manhattan Realty Boom Draws Big Investors To Heights and Bronx
The surge in construction and land purchases in Washington Heights Dyckman and The Bronx drew major syndicates and financiers who funneled funds to smaller realty firms. Notable deals included the Manger brothers selling to Mrs Emily Benedict Hopkins who traded the Plaza in Chicago for the North Clark Street site, while Hopkins legacy funded charitable causes. The era marked heavy transfer activity as investors aimed to control large residential developments amid subway backed expansion.
Real estate deals dominate yesterday’s brokerage activity
Shaw & Co. sold seven three story brick properties on Jerome avenue for Edward J. Welling. Other major transactions include twelve lots at Wyse avenue and 180th street sold for cash, several residences on West 82nd Street and West 91st Street, a six story flat on Lexington and 129th, a five story American basement on East 9th, and multiple plots and two family dwellings sold by various firms. The Prudential Real Estate Corporation holds title amid a series of transfers involving Belmont Bond and Mortgage, Lafayette Realty, and Rockland Realty companies.
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Shaw & Co
Edward J. Welling
Jerome Avenue
Smith & Phelps
John A. Steinmetz
Wyse Avenue
180Th Street
Frank I. Fisher Company
Jean M. Carson
82D Street
Edwin D. Worcester
H. W. Shutte & Co
Renton-Moore Company
Elizabeth M. Pelgram
West
91St Street
Lexington Avenue
129Th Street
John J. Kavanagh
Ella A. Cooper
East 9Th Street
Ida Beringer
7Éth Street
Duress Company
West 20Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Prudential Real Estate Corporation
Belmont Bond and Mortgage Company
Cambreling Avenue
189Th Street
Beaumont Avenue
George Brown
Lafayette Realty Company
James T. Barry
Minford Place
Taxpayers Congress to Form Central Body Meets Next Week
Taxpayers in New York join the Taxpayers Congress move led by the New York Real Estate Board of Brokers. Divisional chairmen will convene with older local bodies to draft a public statement of aims and unite in a temporary central organization.
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Taxpayers’ Congress
Committee On Legislation and Taxation
New York Real Estate Board of Brokers
Taxpayers
Central Congress
Congress
Plans Filed for Six Story Elevator Apartment on West 147th Street
Plans with Buildings Superintendent Murphy show a six story brick elevator apartment house for Scheer Ginsberg Realty on 147th street east of Broadway. Project features limestone trim, 10 by 8 foot frontage, 30 suites, and a $125000 cost. Architect B W Levitan.
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Murphy
Scheer-Ginsberg Realty Company
147Th Street
Broadway
B. W. Levitan
East 125Th Street
Paul Byck
Paul Bernhardt
Charles Gens, Jr
Kramer & Rockmore
Rivington and Goerck Streets
G. F. Pelham
Amsterdam Avenue
Simon Fritz
Eighth Avenue
Manhattan Leasing Company
McCain Weissman
Young & Greenberg
Clement B. Brun
Sale of West 3d Street House and Related Realty Deals
Tanenbaum Strauss & Co. sold for Mary H. Ward No. 8 West 3d street and leased 533 West Broadway to Lillie S. Beall. They also arranged leases for properties on Wooster Street, West 15th Street, Union Square, and Wooster Street again for various clients. The firm recently placed a mortgage of $180,000 at 5 percent and four mortgages totaling $590,000 at 4 percent.
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Tanenbaum, Strauss & Co
Mary H. Ward
West 3d Street
West Broadway
Lillie S. Beall
Wooster Street
Max Held
West 15Th Street
Leopold Peck
Union Square
Kent Realty Company
Benjamin Altman Sells Madison Apartments to Thomas E Glacen
Altman transferred title yesterday to the Madison apartments a four story and basement building at the southeast corner of 25th street and Madison avenue to Thomas E Glacen for a nominal consideration. The property is mortgaged for 285000 and measures 49.4 by 125 irregular.
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Benjamin Altman
Madison Apartments
25Th Street
Madison Avenue
Thomas E. Glacen
Centennial era veteran leads grand 113 year old at event
Oakland based report notes Captain Goddard E Diamond aged 113 led the grand march at a benefit, joined by Miss Marie Montreth, 13 decades younger. Born in Plymouth Mass, he helped build the first U.S. railroad, served as Civil War era government special agent, is a vegetarian, and authored a longevity book.
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Oakland
Cal
Goddard E. Diamond
Marie Montreth
Captain Diamond
Plymouth
Mass
Life for mother of baby John in dynamiting case
Oakland verdicts report Mrs Isabella J Marti sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy in the dynamiting of Judge Ogden's home. The mother of "Baby John" she used him as a tool in multiple plots and claimed the child was the son of the Princess Chimay.
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Oakland
Cal
Isabella J. Marti
Ogden
Martin
John
Your
Chimay
Grand Rapids man acquitted in bottle incident death
Edward Parks, accused of manslaughter after a bottle thrown at the opening Central League game last May killed 14 year old Willie Haverkamp, was found not guilty. Prosecutors said he threw at youths who annoyed him. the boy was an innocent bystander.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Edward
Willie Haverkamp
Parks
Haverkamp
Realty Associates Buy Rockaway Beach Tract
The Realty Associates led by Remsen Johnson of the Jere Johnson Jr. Co and partners agree to purchase 400 acres at Rockaway Beach adjoining Belle Harbor. The ocean front lands were city approved for a seaside park over a year ago but the project was abandoned. The unimproved waterfront parcel near New York is slated for summer residence development by the syndicate.
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Remsen Johnson
Jere Johnson, Jr., Company
Rockaway Beach
Belle Harbor
Ocean
Jamaica Bay
Seaside Park
Greater New York
Fifth Avenue Plot Sale Rumor Denied
A report that the northeast corner lot at 31st Street and Fifth Avenue with 59.9 by 150 feet had been sold to a syndicate led by Alwyn Bell Jr was denied. The rumor circulated yesterday and no sale is confirmed.
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31St Street
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Alwyn Bell, Jr
Realty notes show multiple leases on Sixth Avenue properties
J Arthur Fischer rents store No 641 Sixth Ave to Hertz Restaurant Co for term years and store No 688 Sixth Ave to D Medes while store No 691 Sixth Ave goes to Mr Sardou for restaurant use. Folsom Brothers lease 300 East 11th Street to Emil Berla. Duross Co leases Bernheimer homestead 218 West Sith to W D Perry for five years. Haughton & Lee lease 10400 sq ft at 13 and 165 West Nth St. Expert testimony on appraisals by Charles Griffith Moses of Moses & Bros at West Side YMC A 320 West Sith Street. Bernheimers have occupied Bernheimer house over sixty years.
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J. Arthur Fischer
S. May
Sixth Avenue
Hertz Restaurant Company
D. Medes
S. Raved
Mr. Sardou
Folsom Brothers
William Halliday
East 11Th Street
Emil Berla
Charles Griffith Moses
Bernheimers
Haughton & Lee
West Nth Street
Bronx Building Plans Listing for Several Dwellings
Property notes show multiple two story frame dwellings planned on Southern Boulevard Swinton Street and nearby blocks in the Bronx. Owners include D J and J J O Ha Reston Ressler, J P Leo, Harry Metzler, and Metater with Arthur Boehmer as architect. Construction costs cited include 11 900 dollars and other estimates.
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Arthur Boehmer
Cost Gifford
Swinton St
Spree Metater
Coat
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