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STATE Record





AND    BUILDERS'    GUIDE





Vol. XIL





NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1873.





No.





Published Weekly by

THE   REAL  ESTATE  RECORD ASSOCIATION.

TERMS.

One year, in advance......................SO 00

.All commnnications shonld be addressed to

AVhitino BaiLDiNO, 345 and 3-lT Broadway.





MAKING HASTE, SLOWLY.

It IS to the interest not only of p operty hold¬
ers, hut of ail citizens, that the public AVorks on
the island of Manhattan should be pushed with
all possible vigor, that streets should be opened,
curbed, guttered, flagged. Mr.Green, the Comp¬
troller of this city, does not seem to comprehend
this, and A\'ith his " penny wise and poixnd fool¬
ish" policy cries out in a letter to the Board of
Aldermen, that " the business of opening and
extending streets and boulevards is going on in
certain portions of the city more rapidl}' than
the Avants of the public require."   Now, if Mr.
Green is serious in Avhat he says here, and is
not blinded too much by Ids desire to save
every cent for the City Treasury—a very laud¬
able characteristic, bj'-the-bye, but impolitic at
times—the Comptroller Avill bear with us when
we tell him that he does not understand the
want of the public.    Were all our streets
•opened and extended so as to enable property
diolders to build, and Avith rapid transit in the
immediate future, New Yorlc to-day Avould
iiot be the feeder for Jersey real estate.   We
would be able to accommodate people here
who now must look for homes on the other
side of the Hudson.   Mr. Greeu, though cus¬
todian of the public funds> certaiuly can not
be so blind as to the interests of the metrop¬
olis as to counsel delay in anj' of the improve¬
ments on Manhattan Island; and Ave trust that
liis eccentricitj^ in looking at all the sides of a
dollar belonging to the city, which occupies
so much of his time, Avill not prevent him from
aiding the city departments in pushing on the
works which our best citizens imperativelj'
demand.





WIDENING   ONE   HUNDRED   AND   TENTH
STREET.

The report of assessments for the opening
and widening of One Hundred and Tenth
Street, from Eighth Avenue to the neAV drive,
has been presented for confirmation before
Judge Daniel in Supreme Court Chambers.
By this report it appears that the Commission¬
ers have fi.Yed the damages for land taken at
1149,709.31; for houses, $29,748 ; for costs,
$9,036.71; total, $188,494. Of this last sum,
$123,494 is assessed againsfproperty owners,
and a number of the latter appeared by coun¬
sel to interpose objections to the report.





-VALUE OF REAL ESTATE IN NEW YORK.





The value of real estate in the city of Ncav
York, aa assessed for 1873, is $830,693,380, an
increase of $41,183,115 over the assessments
for 1872; with the exception of the five lower
wards, where there is a decrease of $1,638,400.
The increase for the Nineteenth Ward alone is
enormous, being $19,235,760; while the Twelfth
Ward, being the npper part of the island,
shows an increase of $7,888,795. The valua¬
tion of the personal estate in the citj"- and
county of Ncav York is $292,597,643; making
the total of real and personal estate for 1873,
$1,129,291,023. A total increase of $42,255,765
over the valuation for 1873.





IMPORTANT TO BUILDERS.

The Public School Trustees will, until Wed-
nesdaj^ next, 16th, receive sealed proposals for
the repairs, painting, and alterations of school
buildings, to be done during vacation. The
proposals must be handed in to the Clerk of
the Board of Education, corner of Grand and
Elm streets.

The Fire Commissioners advertise foi- pro¬
posals for building an engine-house at Car-
mausville. Said proposals to be received at
the Firemen's Headquarters, in Mercer street,
until Friday, July 25.





If there is one city department more than
another which believes in a Fabian policy, it
is the Department of Parks. Its "masterly
inactivity" is something Avonderful, and Pres¬
ident, Commissioners, and all, can always be
found on the side of delay. It has taken them
now about two yeors to complete the fountain
in the City Hall Park, and to bring Union
Square in some sort of decent shape. Neither
of them are, however, finished to-day. The
latest instance of this dilatory policy can be
noticed in the official journal of the 9th, where
the Commissioners, after having advertised for
proposals ditring several days for work to be
done in the npper part of the cit}'-, coolly Avith-
draw their advertisements, and announce that
the plans and specifications are not ready.
When the Department of Parks is ready to
do some AVork, the workingmen of New York
Avill be apt to hear of it between noAV and the
Republic's centennial.





MECHANICS'LIENS,





NE-W YORK.

July

3 Bowery (No. 168), w. s. (Cont'n to
July 5,1874.) William E. Waring
agt. Bertha Rauth................     $840 00

7  Same jpkopekta'.   (Cont'n to Joly

8,1874.) Doyle &, GuUen agt. Ber¬
tha Rauth........................    1,674 00

8  Broadway, s. e. cob. 33d  st., 5

houses on Broadway and 1 on
street. James Burkitt agt.'A. C.
Loomis..........................    1,026 20





3 Clinton st. (No. 15?,), av. s. Fred¬
erick Hild agt. John Fritz........       433 00

9 Delancey st., n. e. coit. Pitt st.
August KonoAv agt. Thomas Phe-
lan..............................          39 00

3 Fourth av., s. e. con. T4ti{ st.   H.

A. Gunther agt. A. B. Birdsall___    1,003 00

3 Forty-second st. (No. 330 AV.;, s.
s. John McKenzie agt. James
Dunceith........................    3,300 00

3 FORTi'-SECOND ST. (No. 3-i4 TV.), s.
s. M. P. Van Oordt agt. .Airs.
Ellis.............................       302 00

3 FouKTK av., _s. e. cor. ''4th ST.
(Cont'n to Jul}' 5, 1874.) John
Coar agt. Catharine A. Bird.gall...    6,840 00

7 FiFTY-ElUHTH   ST.,   S.   S.,4'i;> W. STH

AA^, 5 houses. Charles F. Gilman
agt. AVilliam McGratb, S. R. Corn-
stock, and Edward Schell........  19,000 00

7 FiFTY-EOURTH   ST.   (No.   343), S.   S.,

301 e.  10th av.   L.  A. and F. P.

Fuller agt. John Totten...........       157 00

7  Fiftieth st., n. s., 332.6 e. 2d aa'.

Patrick Mitchell agt. The Beekman

Hill M. E. Church................       3.50 00

8  Fifty-fourth st., n. s., 300 w. 11th.

av.   J. W. Stevens & Bro. agt. W.'

H. AA''iugert.......................       353 63

8 First aa^, av. s., 60 s. 1,23d st.
Charles Robinson agt. Martin Ben¬
edict ..............'..............       327 83

8  Fifty-sixth st., n. e. cor. 10th aa'.

Dennis Bresnau agt. Blake & Ma-

hony............................       176 50

9  Fifty-second st., n. e.  cor. 10th

SLY., 63x50.    Samuel Cochran agt.

Eleazer Ayrcs....................    7,252 75

9 Fifty-sixth st., n. e. cor. 3d av.
Martin Mueller agt. Jesse E. Mar¬
shall.............................       2,25 50

9  Fifty-fifth st. (Nos. 71 and 73),

n. s., and 6th av. (Nos. 990, 992,
994, and 996), e. s. (Cont'n to July
13, 1874.)   James Rose agt. Abm.

Mead............................    1,619 78

9- First av., av. s., ext'o from 109th to
110th St. (Cont'n to July 9, IST-I.)
Patrick n. Sharkey agt.------Moore       896 45

9  First av.,av. s., ext'g from IOUth

to llOtli sts.     Thomas Maliar agt.

Hiram Moore....................    3,081 87

5 Leonard st. (Nos. 24, 26, 28, and
30), s. s. Daniel McGrath agt. H.
B. Claliui & Co...................    1,287 00

10  Madison st. (No. 176), s. s.   John

O'Donoghue agt. Mr. Getsky.....       263 00

3  AIULBERRY   ST.,   N.   E. COR.    WORTH

St. (Cont'n to July 6, 1874.) Sea¬
man & Gaines agt. J. M. Steinmetz    4,153 50

4  Nineteenth st., n. s., 200 e. Av. A.

Patrick Carroll agt. Sehoenberg
Smelting and Kefiniug Co.........          31 50

5  Same i-roi'erty.   Patrick Crystal

agt same.........................          36 00

7  One Hundred and Thirty-fourth

St., n.  s., bet.  Sth and 6th avs.

Michael Brannan agt. T. II. Farrell 17 50
1 Pike st.  (No.  60), e. s.   McKinley

& Smack agt. Joseph Kahn.......       312 00

1 Sea'enty-eiguth ST. (Nos. ^44 and

346), s. s., 320 AV. 2d av.   WiUiam

Fernschild agt. Leonard Schmidt.       163 74

8  Sea^enty-fourth st., s. s., 375 av. 2d

av.   Carroll & Howard agt. Isaac

L. Devoe.........................       211 12

10  Sea''enty-eightu ST. (Nos. 244 jvnd

346 E.), s. s.   John F. Moore agt.

Leonard Schmidt................    1,350 00

3 Thirty-sixth st., n. s., 310 e. 3d

av.   Louis Walter agt.------Garity        30 00

3 Same property'.   August  AVitzen-

heim agt. same..................        SO 00

5 Thirty'-i-ifth ST.,  s. s., 100 w. 2d

av.   Thomas Archbold agt.   Mr.

Classen...........................        33 00

9  Third av. (Nos. 878, 880, and 882),

w. s.   Martin Mueller agt. Jesse

E. MarshaU......................    1,039 50