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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1908
Page
3
Downtown and midtown real estate shows brisk activity with several large sales. Deals include four-building west street and william street holdings to Hill Building Company, plus Canal Street corner parcels and loft buildings traded through major brokers.
The Wood-Harmon Company promotes Harmon a high plateau along the Hudson as a deluxe residence park with easy monthly payments. A special 1:50 pm train from Grand Central will stop at 125th street for buyers. Free tickets are available at 315 Madison Avenue or 42 West 123 Street offices. Representatives meet buyers at the train gates for inspections.
Along the undeveloped Grand Boulevard and Concourse in The Bronx several high class residences rise. At 1924 street and the Concourse Louis F. Kuntz erects a two story Georgian style dwelling from Albert E. Davis plans with a central entrance, parlor and library flanking a square hall.
Two four story buildings at 14 and 16 East 20 Street were sold by Albert B. Ashforth for Isidore H. Kramer. A group of four buildings at 9 to 6 John Street was bought by the Golden Hill Building Company via Charles Noyes Company and Robert T. McGusty.
Far Rockaway emerges as a premier summer resort turning into a year round residential and business center. The article notes its beaches on the Atlantic, central avenues like Central and Broadway, Ostend hotels, and rising realty interest aided by subway and railroad links. It cites opportunities for substantial home building, seacoast plots, and potential trolley expansion to improve access from Brooklyn and the Rockaway peninsula.
An eight story loft building with stores on Canal Street was sold by E. L. King & Co and L. J. Phillips & Co for Joseph H. Davis to Kalman Haas.
Malba, a large Long Island tract near City Hall Manhattan, is rapidly transforming into a restricted residential settlement. Promoters tout water views, macadam streets, cement sidewalks, sewers, gas and electric systems, and landscape-planned layouts. A Long Island Railroad station exists on site with plans for a casino, clubhouse, garage, pier, and water shuttle service to Montauk.
River View Manor in Hastings on the Hudson presents prepared residential tracts with city conveniences and rural charm. The development designed by noted landscape architects has seen rising values as New York Central plans electric linkage to the Croton zone. sales include plots for C C Howard Mrs A A Cookey E W Henry Harry Menddison and B F Kelly in Summit Buena Vista Ravine Drives.
The property lists a 12 by 18 foot living room with a Flemish oak finish and a stone fireplace. A 15 by 17 panelled dining room with stained glass opens to a kitchen via a butler’s pantry, while a second floor includes two large bedrooms a billiard room and a linen closet. The house uses hot water heating and combination gas electric lighting and is priced around $12,000.
Plans filed to enlarge five story dwelling No 108 East 70th street owned by Walter Brooks with a rear extension. A three story and basement house at No 1 West 16th street will be remodelled into a two family dwelling with two floors of stores for Louis T. Haring of England. Also proposed is enlarging four story and basement houses at No 126 East 65th street and No 5 East 6th street with an American basement entrance for Peter Doelger. owners and details noted.
Plans filed yesterday show a six story loft and store building for A F Jammes at 4 West 37th Street with marble facade and ribbed glass mansard costing 40000 dollars. Also a six story tenement with ground floor stores for Morris Shidiovacy at 17 and 1 Catherine Street with the corner noted.
Across the water from Fort Schuyler and The Bronx lies a tract with over a mile of waterfront and Powell's Cove offering good anchorage for craft of any size. The Realty Trust Company at No 6 Liberty Street issues a promotional circular detailing Malba and its attractions.
Long Beach Estates unveils Sandringham Park an exclusive suburban colony designed by C. W. Leavitt Jr. It will resemble Llewellyn Park with private gated estates, a Sandringham Club for residents, boulevards, concrete walks, a salt water system, and a channelside clubhouse with tennis and boathouse. Early buyers include August Belmont and Julian D. Fairchild among others.
Bronx residents cheer the passage by the House of Representatives of a bill allocating 100000 for a site for a new federal post office. The effort was led by congressman Joseph A Goulden of The Bronx and faced Senate delays before final calendar status.
The New Jersey New York Real Estate Exchange conducts its third car inspection tour on Wednesday June 24 routing through Jersey City and Hudson County. Frank Stevens leads a thirty member committee with civic groups coordinating arrangements. Mayors from Hudson County cities and Mayor Wittpenn are expected to greet visitors at Jersey City City Hall. City Hall and business districts will be decorated. Several large Jersey City factories will be inspected. About one hundred automobiles participate.
George M S Neustadt sells 197 Whitestone frontage lots to a Brooklyn investor. McVickar Gaillard Realty sells for Mrs Burke in St James to Charles S Butler. Mrs A A Winter leases Elm Point house. C W Dickey leases Hicks Lane house. Mrs George H Wooster sells Elm Court plot in Staten Island to Einert Peterson. Mrs De Frees Critten leases Olive Crest to Charles H Blair. Pease Elliman sells North St Greenwich Conn property to Charles A Moore Jr. Jones estate homestead to Ernest E Lorillard. Lawrence properties sold or leased to various buyers including Francis A Paris and Daniel H Cox.
The Carrollton Realty Company reports multiple sales at Lakewood Park Bayhampton Park and Hazlewood Gardens. Buyers include James Regan Margaret Co Welbum Catherine S Esteb J G Hawthorn Olger E Swanson Albertina Swanson Lynn M Comstock John A Swanson Charles Swanson John Price Edward Barrett and others with numerous plot numbers.
Brisk demand for Long Island tracts reported by the McCormack Real Estate Company. Floral Park sales include Della Hynes 4x400 ft plot on Willow Street and Annie J. Hynes 40x10 ft on Willow, with multiple parcels sold in Valley Stream on Cottage Street Franklin Avenue Merrick Boulevard Terrace Place and Vernon Place to buyers such as Richard Walsh Morris Greenberg Leon Greenblatt J J O Leary and L M Pearson among others.
Frank Bailey of Title Guarantee and Trust says smaller Brooklyn mortgage sales remain strong with weekly totals near 600,000 in Brooklyn and Queens. Rates stay high, though some interior-property loans at rate concessions have appeared, and life insurers and savings banks are out of the market. He says large new building should wait until tenants fill existing stock and notes that foreclosures remained a small fraction during the panic with timely interest payments.
Renton Moore Co sells Nos 7 West 141th street and 450 West First Street two five story flat houses for investment. Mrs 8 Anderson sells 157 East 91st Street four story flathouse on 20 by 100.3 feet. Several transfers listed on Beach Terrace East 148th Street and Hastlid Street with multiple buyers and sizes.
Mrs Maria Fisher receives two three story flat houses Nos 2153 and 2160 Prospect Avenue on plot 2x150 and a one family house on plot 327x100 also on Prospect. John P Refily is named. Ernst and Cahn sell two four story double flats Nos 721 and T Tinton Avenue for Richard Damm to Jacob Mark who grants a three story dwelling in Paterson New Jersey as part payment.
Clement H. Smith reports numerous property sales including two single family houses at 2% and 287 Washington Ave and 289 Washington Ave, a three family house at 412 Bathgate Ave, lots on Mohegan Ave and Waterloo Place, a Bainbridge Ave dwelling, and several other parcels along East 179th and Concourse with nearby streets.
Garden City Estates sold multiple plots including villa plots at Nassau Boulevard and Chester Avenue to BR Minotti and 609x199 on Kensington Road to A S Kleine and L H Scott. Other parcels on Wellington, Kensington, Kilburn and Newmarket Roads were transferred to M E Mills B Grimshaw W A Kleine and R S Blake with various dimensions and locations.
The old-fashioned dwelling house and stores at the northeast corner of Sixth Ave and 7th St, a landmark of old New York, owned by Townsend Underhill estate, will be altered with upper floors refitted as two family flats and the first two floors converted to stores. Bernard Courtney becomes new lessee. T. H. Styles is the architect.
Jamaica Estates lists several parcels sold including a 44 by 14 plot between Tudor Road and Aberdeem Road. A pair of 100 by 17 plots on Dalmy Road between Radnor Road and Avon Road. A single plot near Avon Road on Dany Road and a 13058 unit parcel on Kent Road between Aberdeen Road and Kent Road.
Slawson and Fiebbs sold a Long Island City parcel to John McCormack for investment. The 44 by 180 foot site runs from 19%% 1-83 Borden Avenue to West 3d Street. McCormack recently bought Adams estate property as well.
Dedham Massachusetts June 6 Anthony Santo fourteen tells Chief Sackett and officials he killed his two cousins James and Frank Marino in Brooklyn last March by throwing stones at their heads. He buried Frank in the woods and cannot recall the other body. He has been living in East Boston and working as a water boy near a sewer project.
Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg division officials arrest H McCormick a longtime claim agent on forgery charges. Investigation spanning four months alleges fraudulent checks to widows and survivors from railroad claims, with alleged losses estimated up to 100000 dollars. Specific case involves a check to Mrs Rose Urtz of Boonville for a death at a railroad crossing in 1908, with a settlement from the company for 2250 dollars and a payment of 508 to the widow.
A preliminary estimate from Seattle forecasts Alaska gold yield this season surpassing 26 million dollars. The projection notes divisions for Tanana Fairbanks and Seward Peninsula Nome with rising miner activity and over three thousand laborers already heading north under contract. The first shipment, about one million, will arrive via Dawson shortly.
The Washington Heights Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its final reception of the season at Mrs. Frank G. Fowler’s home in Mount Kisco. Mrs. Samuel J. Kramer serves as regent. Guests attended with regular members as Mrs. Stanley Otis shared an April Continental Congress experience. A music program followed the business meeting featuring a solo by Mrs. Cloride Bostwick and recitations by Mrs. Agnes Summer Geer. The chapter historian is Mrs. Joseph H. Wade.
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