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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 59, no. 1516: April 3, 1897

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554 Record and Guide April 3. 1897. be required for the load to be carried, and to be thoroughly braced and secured; or said timbers can be In one stlclt if proportioned to the load. The aooring on thrust-outs and put-logs shall be tightly conatructed with planks, so as to prevent material or tools falling through. This aaid floor and enclosure shall not be removed until a like floor and enclosure is already prepared and in position on the story above. In all buildings during alteration or construction, the windows on each floor above the second, shall be enclosed as soon as the story is built, by a wire mesh netting, the meshes of which shall not be over ^ in. wide, well secured to the frame or jambs, and shall not be removed until the per¬ manent sashes or shutters are set In, without the written order ot the owner or his architect. And It shall be a misdemeanor, punishaMe by a fine of $10, or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the magistrate, for any person to remove or destroy said enclosure without the order heretofore mentioned. If the walls of auch buildings are carried up two stories or more above the roofs of adjoining buildings, proper means shall be provided aud used lor the protection of skylights and roofs of such adjoining buildiugs. The protection over skylights to be of stout wire netling, not over % in. mesh, on. stout timbers and properly secured. All such sheds and en¬ closures are to be subject to the inspection of the Department of Buildings, Should said adjoining owner, tenant, or lessee refuse to grant permission (o have said roofs and skylights protected, such refusal by said owner, tenant or lessee shall relieve the owner ot tfie buildings in course of con¬ struction from any responsibility for damage done to persons nr property on or within the premises affected. Should such enclosure or protection not be so erected, the superintendent of buildings shall cause a notice to be served personally upon the owner or his authorized agent, constructing or repairing such buildings, or the owner, tenant, or lessee of adjoining premises, in case such owner, tenant, or lessee shall refuse to permit the erection and maintenance of the protection herein provided for, requiring such enclosure or protection as provided in this section, specifying the manner in whicli same shall be erected, and if such enclosures or protections are not erected, strengthened, or modified aa provided in such notice, within three days after the service thereof, the said superintendent of buildings shall have full power and authority to cause such enclosures to be erected on the fronts and roofs and the sky¬ lights protected, and all expenses connected with same may become a lien on the property in interest so enclosed and protected, which lien may be created and enforced in the same manner as now provided for in this title. This act shall take effect immediately. Notice to Property Owners. ItSth st, acquiring title bet Kingsbridge road and Amsterdam av. Supplemental anfl amended estimate and assessment com¬ pleted and abstract of same, with maps, etc., deposited for exam¬ ination. Veriflefl objections must be presented by April 26, and hearings will begin on the following day. The report will be sub¬ mitted for conflrmation on May 21. * * * * The assessments for the following have been completed and can be examined in the ofiice of the Board of Assessors, Objections must be presented by April 7. The lists will be transmitted on the following day to the Board of Revision and Correction of As¬ sessments for confirmation. Sewers : Ogden av, from Jerome av to summit n of 164th st. ITSth st, "Webster to Bathgate av, with branches in Vanderbilt av, West, bet Tremont av and 178th st; Vanderbilt av, JEast, bet Tremont av and Samuel st; Washington av, bet 178th and Samuel sts, and in Bathgate av, bet 178th st and point 417.4 n of 17yth st. Regulating, grading, flagging, etc.: W^ebster av, lS4th st to Kingsbridge road, with crosswalks, together with list of damage awards for change of grade, » « • « 149th st, acquiring title from Southern Boulevard to Austin pl. e 3, First partial and separate estimate of damage completed and abstract of sarae, with maps, etc., deposited for examination. Verified objections must be presented by April 26, and hearings will begin on the following day. The report will be submitted for confirmation on May 17. • • • * Oakley st, acquiring title from Verio to Mt. Vemon av. Esti¬ mate and assessment conipleted and abstract of same, with maps, etc., deposited for examination. Verified objections must be pre¬ sented by May 1, and hearings will begin on the following day. The report will be submitted for confirmation on May 28. * * * * 195th st, formerly Tappen st, acquiring title from Webster to Marion a v. 180th st, formerly Samuel st, acquiring title from 3d to Webster ay. Estimate and assessment completed and abstract of same with maps, etc., deposited for examination. Verified objections must be presented by May 1, and hearings will begin on the fol¬ lowing day. The report will be submitted for confirmation on May 28, .,,.;.> ----------■-------_ News in Brief. California has adopted the Torren's system of land transfer, with state guarnatee of title. The Department of Public Works does not encourage the move¬ ment for securing the vridenlng of 122d street, in the vicinity of Grant's tomb. Merchant!) on lith street, encouraged by the success of their fellows downtown, are agitating for a suppression of the pedlar nuisance In front of their stores. In this city it ia confidently stated that Senator Page's bill lim¬ iting the height of building, which passed the Senate thia week, cannot go through the Assembly. An ordinance to enable roofers and plumbers to light fires in the streets of the city was introduced at the last meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Alderman Oakley, and referred to the Committee on Law Department. Governor Black will be asked by the Real Estate Exchange and other opponents of sidewalk obstructions to veto the Leonard bill, permitting truckmen to establish booths within the stoop line, passed over the Mayor's veto this week. Section 243 of the Revised Ordinances has been amended to pro¬ vide a special width of 18 feet 6 inches for sidewalks on streets 75 feet wide. Hitherto a width of IS feet applied to all streets from 70 to SO feet wide. The Colored Home and Hospital, which for nearly half a cen¬ tury has been located at 1st avenue, 64th and 65th streets, are on the lookout for a new site further uptown. The sale of the 1st avenue site is noted in our Gossip Column. A delegation of property-owners waited on the Mayor on Thursday to solicit his influence to prevent the execution of the Department of Street Cleaning's plan to establish a stable on West S9th street. Mayor Strong promised to consider the mat¬ ter, but not in a way that gave encouragement to the delegation. Mayor Strong, in vetoing a bill proposing to enlarge the powers of the Board of Aldermen for granting stands within stoop-lines, said: "Any bill of this kind to meet my approval will have to con¬ tain a clause punishing anyone who pays or takes rent for the use of the stoop-line." The old Goelet mansion, on the northeast corner of Broadway and 19th street, is about to be torn down to make way for an eight-story brick building for stores and salesrooms. The plans have been filed by Architects J. B. Snook & Sons, for the owner, Almy G. Gallatin. In March, the Brooklyn Department of Buildings issued 693 permits, 186 for brick buildings, 206 for frarae buildings and 301 for alterations. The estimate! cost of all was $1,679;141, or $11,- 983 less than the amount for which permits were issued in Mareh, 1896. The Sinking Fund Commission has requested the Board of Al¬ dermen to disestablish the ferry created by resolution of the Board in 1879, from a point between West 129th and West 132d streets to Fort Lee, and the request is now under consideration of the Committee 'on Ferries and Franchises. Comptroller Fitch offered six ferry franchises at auction this week, with the following results: the 42d Street and Weehawken Ferry went to the present holders, the New Tork Central Railroad Corapany. at ^^2,750 per quarter; the Jay Street Perry to Weehaw¬ ken, to the piesent holders, at $875 per quarter, and the Chambers Street Ferry tc the Erie Railroad Company, the present liolders, for $2,125 per quarter. The sale of the franchises of the Liberty Street and Communipaw, and of the ferry to Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn, was adjourned until Aprii 12th. The Boards of Estimate and Apportionment and of Street Op¬ ening and Improvement decided to^take the site bounded by Centre, Reade, Chambers and Elm streets for the new Hall of Records. To complete the boundaries Elm street will be opened through to Chambers street. The Corporation Counsel will pro¬ ceed at once with the necessary condemnation proceedings, and it is hoped to place contracts for the building before the end of the year. I'he site selected was the one approved by Mr. Alfred E. Marling, representing the Real Estate Exchange, in the course of a public hearing, which took place yesterday. Upper West Side property-owners are still trying to get a com¬ petitive railroad line into their territory, and also to, if possible, avoid its invasion by the overhead trolley. Representatives of the Kingsbridge Improvement Association and of the West Side Public Improvement Association met in conference with officials of il.c Metropolitan Traction Company last Tuesday, when the company undertook to make another application for the Kings- bridge franchise, and, if successful, to operate the new line by electricity, but not by means of overhead wires, and to give the Upper West Siders the advantages of transfers on all their system. The Third Avenue Railroad Co. has requested the Board of Al¬ dermen to exercise the option given to the city in the original franchise for the Oth and Sth avenue surface railroads to purchase those railroads, in which event the petitioner offers to purchase or lease the same from the city. The petition was referyed by the Board to the Committee on Railroads, but it is not regarded as anything more than an attempt of the Third Avenue' E. R. Co. to annoy their rival, the Metropolitan Traction Co., and delay the latter's improvement of the 6th and Sth avenue properties. Cor¬ poration Counsel Scott is quoted as saying that existing law does not authorize the city to spend any money in such a pur¬ chase. Owners of Elm street property have been asked to confer with the Rapid Transit Commission on Tuesday next, at 3 p. m., re¬ garding the method and plan of construction of the proposed rap¬ id transit railroad on that street The Commission has Instructed councel to obtain consents of prop erty-owners along the line of route and has, also, applied to the Legislature for power to make a contract calling for the construction and operation of their pro¬ posed railroad. In advance of obtaining consents of the property- owners, or the alternative consent of the Supreme Court-Appel¬ late Division, the execution of such contract, however, to be sub¬ ject to one of such consents being ultimately obtained. The Com¬ mission, late in the week, adopted plans for a two-track road from City Hall, the present terminus, to South Ferry. h