EAL Estate







AND   BUILDERS'   GUIDE.





Vol. YII.





NEW YOEK, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1871.





No. 169.





Published Weekly by

TIIE REAL ESTATE RECORD ASSOCIATION.

TERMS.

Ono year, in advance......................$6 00

All oommuniuations should be addressed to

C.   ~W.   SWETGT,

7 AND 9 Warren Strkict.





No receipt for money due the EEAL ESTATE RECORD
AvUl be acknowledged unless signed by one of our regnl.ar
coUoctor.s, Henry D. S.mitii or Thoaias F. Cummings.
All bills for collection will be senfc from the office on a regu¬
larly printed form.





NEW YORK AND THE VIADUCT KAILWAY.

The N. Y. Eveiving Post, in an article on the
changes likely to be brought about by the com¬
pletion of the Viaduct RailAvay, in the values
of property on Manhattan Island, also directs
attention to the social changes likely to be
brought about through the same influence. Of
late years thousands of respectable citizens
have been actually driven out of New York
city into the country by the high rents and
extravagant rates of living, which were so in¬
ordinately high for anything respectable that
there were scarcely any houses for rent any¬
where within reasonable distance of business
locations which could be had by any person of
moderate ineans.    The Post says:

The only efficient remedy for this state of
things is immensely to extend the area within
which comfortable city homes can be enjoyed^
If a miUion of people want to live within a
district which can properly accommodate only
half that number, the very rich Avill find
comfortable and roomy homes at any cost;
the very poor will submit to any amount of
crowding and inconvenience, in order to be
near their work; but the large body of men
who cannot afford to live "in style," and yet
want healthful, agreeable homes, are gradually
driven outside of the district. They prefer
even to spend some hours of each day in going
to and fro, rather than to burden themselves
with the cost of fashionable houses, or to
crowd their families into narrow and, perhaps,
pestilential quarters. But increase the size of
the district within -which it is especially desir¬
able to live; make it a matter of practical in¬
difference .to city residents, whether their
homes are two or six miles from their busi¬
ness ; multiply by four or five the number of
sites for comfortable city homes within easy
reach of the City Hall; and room is made at
once in our streets for that class of citizens
which we have been driving, off for ten years
past to build up Long Island, New Jersey, and
Westchester.





Now this is precisely what New York needs.
The citizens she has driven into exile are a
large part of the real strength of the commu¬
nity. Among them are thousands of the most
active, enterprising, and useful, especially of
the younger men of busuiess. They are the
citizens who are full of public spirit, zealous for
honest govemment, ready to set their hands
actively at work in social and political reform.
They have built up villages and cities around
NeAV York which, for their age, are models of
taste, progress, and prosperity. The city can¬
not recall all.these; cannot, even if it were
desirable, turn the tide of emigration back¬
ward ; but it can avoid strengthening it further;
it can retain and perhaps even increase the
present proportion of its most active and pro¬
gressive business men who choose to live within
its bounds.

When Harlem and Washington Heights are
nearer to Chambers street than Elizabeth, New¬
ark, EngleAvood, or Flushing; when every point
in New York island is made more easily access¬
ible from the centres of business than any point
beyond Brooklyn or Jersey City, New York will
again take the lead of aU its neighbors in rate
of groAvth, as it did thirty years ago, when it
seemed to have unlimited room for growth
within its OAvn bounds. It Avill again be the
rule for men whose work is in the city to have
their homes there too. The present city limits
will be rapidly filled up -with comfortable dwell¬
ings, and their oAvners avUI not long be Avithout
a voice in the local govemment. in which they
have so much at stake. We regard the proposed
city railway as the main security of New York
against that system of absentee OAvnership
which has so long been the curse of Ireland,
and which has already injured the political
character of our city.





MECHANICS'   LIENS    AGAINST    BUILDINGS
IN NEWYORK CITY.

June.

5  Avenue A & 13th st., s. w. cob., 2

houses.   Wm. De Noielle agt. M. B.

Ochs..............................      $74 72

8 Eldridge st., w. s. (No. 115).   Wm.

Nelson, Jr., agt. I. T. Baderhop...         25 45

2 Forty-sixth st., n. s., 4 houses
bet. 1st and 2d avs. James Wat¬
son agt. W. H. Arnoux...........    S,350 00

2 Fifty-first st., s.' s., 2 houses
com. 378 w. oth av. John Moran
agt. James K Spratt.............    1,496 GO

6  Fiftieth st., n. s. (No. 313 W.), 177

AV. 8th av.    EdAvard Colt agt. Ira

A.  AUen.........................       122 50

8 Pokty-sixth ST., s. s. (Nos. 180 to

144, inclusive). Alfred Harding agt.

B.  R. Codling....................    1,565 CO

5  Grand st., s. s. (Nos. 309, 311 and

31 IK):    GUberfc   W.   Barnes   agfc.

Mr. Rielly.......................       375 88

6  Houston st., s. s. (Nos. 25 and 27)j

bet. Mercer and Greene sfcs.    Thos.

Bannon agt. Thomas Brown......         13 75





6  Same property.   James .Spink agt.

Thomas Brown...................         22 00

3 Jane st., n. s. (No. 47).   Adolph

Klaber agt. Jos. W. Johnston.....       277 50

5  Same property.     Wm.  Rowland

agt. same........................         41 00

7  Same property. Kursted & Smith

agfc. Wm. Johnsfcon...............       184 00

6  Leavis st., e.  s.  (No.  12), 150 n.

Grand  st.     John Eisenbarfch agfc.

Franz Keilbach...................       103 00

6 Same       property.      Frederick

Schmidt agfc. same................         38 00

6 Same  property.*    Anton  Eisen-

barfch agfc. same___...............         47 00

6 Same property.   George Herold

agfc. same........................         40 00

6 Same property.     Daniel  Brady

agfc. same........................         30 00

6  Same  property.     Louis  Sugnek

agfc. same. .*.....................         31 00

3 One Hundred and Eleventh st.
& 2d av., s. AV. cor., <fe 5 houses on
av. Marfcin McGoAvan agfc. Danl.
Murray...........................       214 00

3 Same property. •  Buttell &, Bros.

agfc. same.........................         60 CO

3 One Hundred and Sixteenth st.,

n.  s., 8 houses, com. 283 aa'. 3d av.

Same agt. same...................       225 00

7  One Hundred and Sixteenth st.,

n. s., 4 houses, running e. Lex. av.

Marfcin J.  Keveny agfc.  Moore &

Murray.............,._____.....    1,000 00

6 Seventy-ninth st., n. s., 225 e. 2d

av.     Ackerman   &   Borkel   agfc.

Catharine Harfc...................          73 00

6 Second av. and 1 14th st., s. w. cor.,

4 houses on av.   Wafcldns. & Bryan

agfc. Jeremiah Lema..............    2,541 62

6  Seventh av.  and 13th st.,  n. e.

cor. (No. 41 7fch av.).    Wm. Wares

agfc. H. W. Livingston & Co.......         81 77

7  Seventy-ninth st., n. s., arout 225

e.   2d av.     Wm.  C.  MoUoy agfc.
Catharine Harfc..................       115 03

8  Second av. and 114th st., s. av.

cor., 4 houses on av.    John Shine

agt. Jeremiah Leamy.............         12 00

8 Same property.   Thomas O'Brien

agt. same........................         15 00

8 Seventy-fifth st., s. s., com. 78 e.
3d av., running 2.3.5. Michael Ryan
agt. -Thomas Smith...............       700 00

8 Sixty-fifth St., s..s., com.  98 e.        ,
Lexington av., running 140.    Sam¬
uel McKee agfc. Thomas Fitzpatrick.   8,900 00

3 Twenty-sixth st., n. s. (Nos. 441,
443 & 445), W. J. W. Ogden, Jr.,
agt. E. P. Briggs.................       492 46

6 Thirty-second st., n. s. (Nos. 24.3,
245, 247 & 249), W. EdAvd. Thos.
Scully agfc. Mr. HoAvard...........         84 45





MECHANICS' LIENS AGAINST BUILDINGS IN
KINGS COUNTY.

May & June.

7 Hamilton st., n. s. — n. Myrtle av.
Sam'l Dean &   Bro.   agfc.   C.   D.
Boylsfcon & Thos. B.  BaU........       338 00

31 North 7th st., n. s., 200 e. 1st st.,
25x100 .(No. 96). J. Schneider agt.
A. Herbert & Jas. CoUins.........       113 00

3 North 7th st., n. s., 175 w. 2d st.,
25x100. J. Baeringer agt. A. Her¬
bert &—. CoUins................        32 50

3 Smith av., w. s., 100 s. Bro.vdway,
100x100. J. Baeringer agfc. A. Her¬
bert &" —.Deadloff................         86 00

2 Pacific ST., n. s., 100 e. Hicks st.
Demai & Bradley agfc. GUI & Da¬
vis & N. H. Frost................       1-50 00