Fifth Avenue to be widened to a 100 foot thoroughfare
After years of litigation the city announced plans to widen Fifth Avenue between 2d and 57th streets to 100 feet. Bids for initial work between 40th and 24th streets will be invited this week. About 75 percent of encroaching property owners have agreed to remove obstructions, with only one court case remaining over the Café Martin outdoor dining platform.
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Fifth Avenue
Bureau of Highways
Frank FP. Pierce
Summer Garden
Café Martin
State of New York
Mark Cross Company
Board of Aldermen
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
de Peyster
Sixth Avenue
42D Street
Pierce
Waldorf-Astoria
Sherry’s
44Th Street
Holland House
Union League Club
East 39Th Street
Mr. Pierce
Mystery in death of New York stock broker Faulkner
Henry J. Faulkner of Chisolm & Chapman stock brokers died at Fordham Hospital after being found unconscious on New York Central tracks. He was last seen on a New Haven train near 216th street, with his son saying he had acted queerly for weeks and investigators considering accidental death. He leaves a wife and four daughters and recently sold his Stock Exchange seat for about $70,000.
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Henry J. Faulkner
West 102d Street
Chisolm & Chapman
Wall Street
Fordham Hospital
Faulkner
New York Central
216Th Street
New Haven
Curtain
Reilly
The
Stock Exchange
Great Northern Preferred
People’s Gas
Brooklyn Union Gas
Consolidated Gas
Harry Faulkner
New Rochelle
New York Central Sues City Again Over Damages
The New York Central Railroad served the city through the Department of Finance with a new suit for 379,192 dollars for damages from tearing up its Twelfth Avenue tracks between 59th and 60th streets. The railroad had previously filed 27,192 dollars on July 2, 1907 and 5,000 dollars on January 2 this year, bringing the total to 37,192 dollars. It claims removal by order of the Public Works Commissioner was unauthorized and that the tracks were destroyed, raising freight handling costs by lighters.
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Department of Finance
New York Central Railroad
Twelfth Avenue
59Th
Commissioner of Public Works
New York Central
Nho
Hotels Reopen While Coney Island Burns In Fire
In the wake of a major blaze at Coney Island two hotels survive while others are destroyed. Vanderveer Hotel opens with debris cleared and soot removed as Pabst Loop Hotel is lost. Police guard the scene as crowds and searchers number into the day. The loop railroads reroute and operate by 6 PM. Rescue crews dampen sparks as Dreamland animals are moved. Salt water and high pressure mains are credited with preventing further blaze. Pabst Company contemplates a large concrete and steel complex including a hotel casino hall and pavilion. Vanderveer prompts immediate rebuilding.
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Coney Island
Vanderveer
Pabst Loop
Coney Island and
Brooklyn Railroad
Bostock
Dreamland
Pabst Company
Cance Hall
van Gerveer
Brooklyn Man Held on Suspicion Ties to Kidnap Case
Pietro Pizzo aged 48 of Brooklyn was arrested by Detectives Micelli and Mondo and jailed at Police Headquarters on suspicion of passing information about the Nicola Tomasola kidnapping. Investigators indicate Michael Tomasola, the boy’s father, paid $1.66 after the child was stolen last August, though he denies involvement.
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Pietro Pizzo
Pacific Street
Brooklyn
Nicola Tomasola
Micelli
Mondo
Michael Tomasola
12Th Street
First Avenue
Downtown Deals and Building Plans Span Major Manhattan Sites
Investors acquire the Hardware Building at Lafayette and Walker and a Centre Street parcel tied to an old shot tower, with leases and remodelling planned. Major NYC building activity shows $38.25 million in new capital for six months, a drop from 1907, with office construction leading the surge including a 62 story Equitable Society tower.
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de Selding Brothers
Lafayette and
Walker Sts
Charles Lane
John S. Melcher
Centre St
Lafayette St
Charles F. Noyes
Charles Retiers
Greenwich St
West 38Th St
J. B. & F. W. Burton
John E. Nitchie
6Th Ave
13Th St
Christian F. Bode
Murphy
Manhattan
Equitable Society
Foreclosures Sell Manhattan Parcels in Vesey Street Rooms
Foreclosure sales in the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms at Vesey street report multiple Manhattan parcels auctioned. Properties include 355 East 1st Avenue, 106 Houston Street, Sheridan Avenue, Brook Avenue, and Concord Avenue with various lot sizes, six story tenements, and advances to plaintiffs, adjournments to July 16, and bids totaling tens of thousands of dollars.
Real estate sales in Manhattan and Brooklyn noted in brokerages
Lowenfeld and Prager sold a six story new law house at 225 and 227 East 123th Street on a 31.8 by 100.11 foot plot to John W. Ritchie, with part payment including a moving picture show in Brooklyn. The American Real Estate Company sold 1019 Faile Street, a new two family house, to Elizabeth Ss Cole.
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Lowenfeld & Prager
East
John W. Ritchie
Brooklyn
American Real Estate Company
Faile St
Elizabeth Ss. Cole
Hastings Homes sells plots at River View Manor in city deals
The Hastings Homes Company reports villa plots sold at River View Manor to F. H. Reed, W. W. Tompkins and Charles H. Bevers, the Misses Bird and Abbie Allen, Mrs. Daisy B. Swift, Francis J. Hurley, and Harden H. Fitts along Ravine Euclid Summit and Buena Vista Driveways. The Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor acquired title to 30 Rose Street No. 30 from George H F Schrader, a 28.6 by 101.9 foot parcel.
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Hastings Homes Company
River View Manor
F. H. Reed
Ravine
Buena Vista
W. W. Tompkins
Charles H. Bevers
Euclid Ave
Villard Ave
Misses Bird
Abbie Allen
Summit
Daisy B. Swift
Francis J. Hurley
Harden H. Fitts
Rose ST
Society For Improving the
Rose Street
George H. F. Schrader
Referee Mrs Johnston-Wood Oversees Foreclosure Sale
Harriette M Johnston-Wood served as referee in the foreclosure of two six story tenement houses with stores at 100 to 106 East Houston Street. The property sold at the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms in Vesey Street to Ernest Steiger for 141000 dollars, with Joseph P Day as the broker.
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Joseph P
Ist Ave
21St St
Sender Jarmulowsky
Jacob Rosenbloon
Morris Clark
OL Cohalan
Houston St
Bowery
E Smith
Charlies Lowe
Bullow
Atty
J Wood
Ernest Steiger
Houston
N S
Frank Hillman
Arnstein & L. Attys
J J Walsh
Sheridan Ave
Brook Ave
165Th St
Jacob Marx Agt
L Babcock Et al
Ernst
Attys
Louis Lande
Charles A Bermian
Concord Ave
C Cassens Agt
Lorillard Realty Co Et
J T Delaney
G W Collins
Herbert A. Sherman
Park Ave
Trust Co of America
H D Arnold
Johnston-Wood
Harriette M. Johnston-Wood
East Houstor St
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
Joseph P. Day
Butler Herrman Co Resell Property on Staten Island
Butler and Herrman Company resold to Armour Realty Company a house at the southwest corner of Deems Avenue and Boulevard Westerleigh Staten Island. The property has fifteen rooms and sits on about an acre. This marks the second sale of the property in two weeks.
Commercial leases and sale of Brooklyn townhouse and Newport estate
The Duross Company leased store and basement at 15 Ann St to New York Baking and Quick Lunch Co for ten years and leased part of 10 Cortlandt St to Numaticon Co for F Harms. E T Newman sold 155 7th Ave Brooklyn a four story brownstone double flat and stores to Christiana M Shaen. De Bois & Eldridge leased Edge Hill Newport to Richard Stevens Hoboken.
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Duross Company
I. Mendoza
Ann St
New York Baking and Quick Lunch Company
F. Harms
Cortlandt St
Numaticon Company
E. T. Newman
7Th Ave
Brooklyn
Christiana M. Shaen
de Bois
Eldridge Ware
H. B. Duryea
Newport Place
Edge Hill
Richard Stevens
Hoboken
World traveler Laura Duncan sails in on Umbria
The sole woman passenger in the Canaré steamer Umbria, Laura Duncan of Seattle, arrived yesterday after a solo around the world journey beginning in September 1906 from San Francisco. She has visited Japan, China, India, Egypt, the Mediterranean, Germany, England and Scandinavia without trouble. Charles A. Keath, a Rhodes scholar from Arkansas, also traveled on the Umbria and returned to pitch for the St. Louis American League club after two more years at Oxford. Meanwhile a memorial service honored John Jaeger, founder of the Mission of the Living Waters, at Camp Memorial Church on Chrystie Street with speakers listed.
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Laura Duncan
Seattle
Oxford
Arkansas
Umbria
English University
America
St. Louis
John Jaeger
Mission of the
Living Waters
Delancey Street
Camp Memorial Church
Chrystie Street
Delancey
William James
Camp Church
F. F. Francisco
J. H. Myholtz
F. H. Jacobs
W. T. Elsing
de Witt Memorial Church
Rivington Street
Elopement of 77 Year-Old Bridegroom Shocks New Haven
Burr S Peck, elderly real estate speculator, marries Mary OBrien, 22, at City Hall with Alderman Goldschmidt presiding. Peck, frail and rheumatic, claimed they would wed as clerks questioned his intent. Mrs Peck, his 95 year old mother, distraught, and Miss OBrien, alias May Bryan, are named. plans had included the Little Church Around the Corner before final city hall ceremony.
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Burr S. Peck
New Haven
Mary O'Brien
City Hall
Alderman Goldschmidt
Sarah Peck
High Street
Henry Emery
Peck
Johnson
Yale
O’brien
May Bryan
James O'Brien
New Rochelle
City Must Pay Contractor's Bill
Justice Dugro in the Supreme Court dismissed a motion to recover 368 from the owner of 189 Maiden Lane for emergency work by Bartholomew Dunn after two fires. The Buildings Superintendent ordered the safety work without owner consent. insurer and city officials argued payment from city funds.
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Justice Dugro
Supreme Court
Corporation
Pendleton
Maiden Lane
Bartholomew Dunn
William B. Ellison
Corporation Counsel
West New York Board Faces Potential Indictment Over Bond Sale
Hudson County Grand Jury weighs possible charges against the West New York Board of Education for illegal actions linked to selling 105000 in bonds to a Cleveland banking firm. A board member is rumored to have received a large payment for promoting the sale, with two witnesses testifying about the payment.
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West New York Board of Education
Hudson County Grand Jury
Cleveland
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Staten Island House
Board OF Education
Rocers, Peet & ComPany
Broadway
Warren St
34Th St
32Nd St
N. E. Corner
New Jersey
Parkborough
Bienheim
Atlantic City
Josiah White & Sons
Atlantic .City
N. J
Walter J. Busby
New York
Saratoga
the Grand Union
Woolley & Gerrans
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Marif Antoinette
Chalfonte
the Leeds Company
New Monmouth Spring Lake Beach
Frank F. Shute
Glen Springs
Watkins Glen-On-Seneca
Lake Country
Nauheim
WM. E. Leffingwell
Watkins
Iorgan
Berwin
Asbury Park
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Bath
S. Baker Brooks
Columbia
W. Harvey Jones
Ocean Hotel
GEO. L. Atkins’ Sons
Montclair
Montclair, N. J
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Ocean Iron River Pleasure Bay
Charles H. Dederer
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Waumbek & Cottages
Jefferson
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White Mountains
Charles W. Murphy
Met
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M. B. Marshall
Saranac Inn
Saranac Inn and Cottages
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Frontenac
ST. Lawrence River
C. G. Trussell
Frontenac, 5A
Mgr
Bon Air
Augusta
Pennsylvania
Water Gap
Delaware Water Gap
John Purdy Cope
Kittatinny
Deelaw
Aeter Gap
Eading
G. Frank Cop
Heessick
Alleghenies
H. M. Essick
Essick Heights
New Jersey Real Estate
Ventnor City, N. J
New York City
Sardin de Paris
F. Ziegfeld, JR
Aerial Gardens
New Ardam Theatre
Henry W. Savage
Mats
Mary
Carle Ee
Han
Ammersteins Roof
Daily Mats
Berna Oightning
Hoffman
Circle Gis
Hittchcockk
Abel Hite
EEL NI Casino
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Luna Park
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Luna
Atlantic Ave
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Sea Beach
Hudson
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West Point
Brighton ‘Races
Reac
Toney Island
Ruland & Whiting CO. Real Estate
KEW York
Beekman ST
Long Beach
Alba -On-The-Water
N. Y. City
Realty Trust
Liberty St
Long Island Real Estate
Belle Terre
Port Jefferson
Dean Alvord CO
Mgrs
Ckerson
Great South Bay
Brightwaters
Bayshore
L. I. T. B. Ackerson CO
Nassau St
George M. Ehrgott
Cortlandt
Newburgh
Poughkeepsie
Br Palace Iron Day Line
Hendrick Hudson
Albany
Fulton St
Annex
Desbrosses St
W. 129Th St
Mary Powell
Block Island
Towor
Shinnecock
Long Island R. A
Wisdow
Tribune
Long Island Sound
Norwich
Chester
Norwich Hill
Narragansett
RED Bank
Franklin St
Long Branch
Briarcliff Lodge
Briarcliff Manor, N. Y
Grand Central Station
Scarborough
David P. Plumer
West 40Th St
38Th
Sea View House
Prospect House
Bathin
et _ T. MARTIN
R. Nett
Raquette Lake
High Point
Beautiful Lake
Delaware & H Lake Daon
Rexmere
Stamford-in-the-Catskills
Moffatt & Peck
York
Wiver View Mountain House
E. Hoffmann
Callicoon
Sullivan County
Vermont
Bomoseen
W. C. Mound
Hydeville, VE
Maine
Cushinc’s
Casco Bay
Ottawa
Boyce & Hatfiell
T Tre Water
Tribumere
Sith
Gth
123Th Et
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Tith Sts
125Th St
Aere
Canada
Trinidad
Quebec
Bermuda
Thos. Cook & Son
Lake Hopatcong
Berty
Mauch Chunk Glen
Glenwood
Orient
New Pre
Hanover
St. E.R
Rockaway Beach
N Y
East 14Th St. Sta
Long Inland R. R
Flatbush Ave
Sta
Newburg
F. Romer
Irming
Homer Ramsdell
East Rt
Hattan
Foot West End
Gramercy
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