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ND   BUILDERS'   GUIDE.





Vol. X.                      NEW YOliK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1872.                        No. 242.





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THE REAL ESTATE RECORD ASSOCIATION.

TERMS.

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Special Notice,

^Messrs, S. M, Styles h Sons, whose extensive moulding
mill on Sixty-fir.-^t street, near Second avenue, takes in
nearly half the block, are maldng all the various kinds of
mouldings, and the most elaborate and difficult of scroll-
sawing, hardwood, cabinet trim, and other work. The re¬
putation they have acquired for e.\ecutin.g orders in first-
class style, and with undeviating punctuality, is weU es¬
tablished in the community.





I'HE FUTUKS  OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The great inconTeniences resulting from the
Horse Epidemic will have the effect of pro-ving
more conclusively than ever the absolute neces¬
sity of steam-transit through the citj"-, in lieu
of the present unwieldy and. uncertain system
of horse-cars. Although there is little yet to
show for it, there can be no doubt that we
seem at present nearer the desired consum¬
mation than we ever were previously. Since
the positive assurances given by Mr, VanderbUt
that the works on the Underground Railroad
would be carried out without delay, public hope
has been considerably revived, for it was uni¬
versally felt that the enterprise was in the
hands of one who usually succeeds in whatever
he undertakes to perform. But apart from this,
there are other lines of speedy transit -which
give fair promise of being shortly under weigh.
One of these is "The Central Underground,"
which has its charter still intact and is only
temporarily suspended by the selfish jealousies
of interested speculators; the other is '' The New
.York Elevated Railway," the only one which
has hitherto given us even a foretaste of the
good to be derived from a more rapid loco¬
motion than that to which we have been hither¬
to subjected. This road has really been doing
essential service, noiselesisly and unostentatious¬
ly, while others have been engaged in oidy asking
how it was to be done. It now forms con¬
nection with and transfers passengers regularly
to the Hiidsoh River Railroad ; so that people
living at Yoniers, in Westchester County, can
reach the City Hall in one hour's time. This
line can, .however, only be .looked upon at
prseent as a sort of useful experiment. It was
buUt so h-iirriedly, and much more lightly than
it need have .beehy that'-^^             jusb now top

frail for aiiythiiig like heavy and coflttmuo:H,s





traffic; but there is no reason why it should not
be so remodelled and reconstructed as to render
it a permanent rapid-transit line of the city,
as it has certainly been the boldest pioneer.

Bub, -whether sooner or later, whenever one
or more of these rapid modes of conveyance by
steam shall become an established fact to our
citizens, there can be no calculating the extent
of the revolution that wUl be made among the
dwellings of whole masses of our population,
nor can any limit be put to the advantages that
Westchester County- must necessarily derive
from such a change. It is the natural outlet
for our pent-up thousands, who cannot afford
to hold property at the rates it has assumed in
New York. Every square foot of unoccupied
land on Manhattan Island is already so enhanced
in value, owing to the improvements already
consummated or known to be in contemplation,
that investors have long since been holding it
at prices beyond the reach of people of small
means. Many of these, unable to find their
natural relief north of Manhattan Island,
owing to the lack of easy communication,
have been driven to seek homes in New Jersey
and on Long Island; preferring.all the incon¬
veniences and delays of depending on ferries—
which in winter are often serious—to the daily
annoyance and loss of time in going long dis¬
tances upon our inadequate horse-cars. Time
was when they seemed to have no other alter¬
native, but that time has already changed, and
the change is daily becoming more rapid.
When the City Hall, or its immediate neighbor¬
hood, was the business centre of the city, our
overflowing population was glad to avail itself of
the cheap lands and easy transportation afforded
them across our rivers, when they could, within
a few minutes' walk from their places of
business, reach the ferries. But now the centre
of the retail business is above Union Square,
and is gradually re.xching further northward,
and those who have their daily occupations
above Union Square find themselves cut off
from the facilities of the down-town ferries.
To many thousands employed above Union
Square it is easier fco go to the (xrand Central
Depot, and thence into Westchester County,
than it is to take stages and cars down to the
ferries to convey them across to their homes in
New Jersey or Long Island, To this upper
portion of our population Westchester County
is therefore, even now, the most accessible ;
but when steam transit is fairly estabhshed,
when the blissful time arrives that a worker
down town can take his sea.t -in a warm and
well-appointed carriage and be whirled to his
home in Yonkers or Tarrytown in about the
same time that it now takes htm to reach his
residenbe in Twentieth or Thirtieth street, half-
frozen and fatigued by standing clinging to the i
straps of a horse-car, he wiJl, together with the i





thousands who now dwell in New Jersey and
Long Island, in whatever part of the city they
may be employed, naturally turn their eyes
northward, and prefer homes in the equally
accessible and more favored climate of West¬
chester County; especially when they can thus
be altogether independent of ferries. The
building of the East River bridge may modify
this result on the Eastern shore, but to the
dwellers of New Jersey the change seems in¬
evitable.

Although this would appear the natural and
certain movement of our population in future,
the County lands in Westchester have hitherto
not been largely dealt in by speculators. At
the same time the utmost activity has been
sho-wn in individual places, among towns
and villages along the different lines of
railroads, and in some instances the value of
property has risen very rapidly. In Yonkers,
for instance, there are lots of 25 feet by 100
feet which a very few years ago were not worth
more than 500 dollars, which can now readily
command from $3,000 to $3,500 each. Per¬
fectly aware of the future before it, West¬
chester County is already one net-work of
railways, either actually completed or to be
shortly constructed, opening up new and rich
districts through to Connecticut and Massa¬
chusetts, and concentrating a flood of travel
and trade into what will form not long hence
the upper part of the City of New York, All
public improvements there are also being carried
out with this end in -view. Broad avenues and
drives are' being laid out in every direction,
which are destined to be but continuations or
connections of the magnifieenb avenues and
boulevards of New York City, when these little
vdlages, now In their very infancy, *shaU be
part and parcel of one great Metropolis. So
rapidly does improvement march with us, -when
fairly begun, that had we now but one or two
lines of rapid transit in operation, it is not too
much to say that many now living would yet
live to see an entirely new city located beyond
the northernmost point of Manhattan Island
and connected with ifc; a city so large in extent
that on the map it would look like the wide-
spreading branches of some huge tree, of which
Manhattan Island would represent the sturdy
trunk.





MECHANICS' LIENS.





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Oct.

23 Ajiittst. (No, 123), Wm, Langguth

agt. G, M. Mittnacht,,............ §2,300 17

25 Ann st., s. w. cok, Nassau si, Dan-

iel McGrath agt. Edward Hall.....   1,200 00

30 BOWEKY,  w. s,   (No, .208),    G,   W.

Barnes agt, Jacob Brookman, (Con-

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