The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-02-05
REAL ESTATE AND RENTS.

The most enthusiastic aerial castle builder who among
the old Dutch burghe that settled the island OF Man
NATHAN might have runnated the prospective growth
OF the then infant town OF New Amsterdam, never
could have fancied even In his widest imaginngs
the colony founded by himself AMI his compeers would
within the decades Of years have passed since the
days OF rerus Stuyvesant, have assumed such cxten
proportions or become SO large rich, refined
or so powerful as New York at the present day When
tne "noe Island was purchased from the sborgnes for
VA, II can readily be imagined that the upper end
now rendered notable by Its unfinished Harlem
bridge lone OF the "big Jobs" the commencement
and slow progress Of which every taxpayer has
60 remember, was only the homo OF the fallow deer
the sprghy squirrel and the restise rabbit The price
OF town lots at that early period in New Yorks history
must have been decidedly reasonable and villa sites
wiih ground enough attached to furnish ample
for supplying the square-faced kinder with skraut in
aoundsnce) could doubtless been had for the ask
sng Happy days. indeed, those have been, when
every man was his own green grocer and none thanks
90 the Dutch oven and It's inventory paid unwilling ri
oufe 70 the baker. But as the Latin adasc has IT, ta
pau muantar;' and less true is the ultimate Of the
prcverb ''nos mutamuv in Ills" Changed, indeed,
has Manhattan Island become sluce the times when tho
Battery Vas graced Sunday evening by the young
men and maidens who could trace back their ancestry
through only one two generations to the original
setler under the old Dutch charter Muliform and va
Sous, and widely differing from those presented to
wouter Won Tsiller when he took his matutnal stroll
beyond the old sSiadt Huys,n the scenes and Incl
dent. that greet tho eye q the pedestrian who 'des'
Broadway (hiil'ng side, OF course summers after
noon In the times long aQone State street
was tho residence OF the opuieat supper tom
q pcd e use term u sss I'D IL Ens isla eh ms
sSet) met N Whitehall to talk osor the doiugs Of the
Chapge, IL indeed, they had such an insti ntion in
those old Knickerbockcr days Litigation, the ca SO
whereof vas trencbng OF an inch the adjoin-
Ing property OF neighbour was unknown TO our
r1tleRm0tlc VI ara n.
chen, as nov, called upon TO decide to ownership
where the real estate in dispute no larger than mans
hand The fashions and furbeows Of In ckcrbocker
dimes and madens were aired within the limits OF tho
Old "Ialf Noon promenade, and dream OF other
boulevard or park, where tr m policemen should keep
watch and ward over thor rambles where an heress
Of FIRST family stock would drive basket phaeton, four
tn-hand with negro seated behind by way Of orEa
nent entered into their iunocont and unsnpsti-
Gated minds Even at later day, and when English
she Dutch, who chung to their manners, thor Gus.
and their dress with extrcme tenacy, higher
up than Pike street the domain OF fashion and
.spectablity Large farms what an idea) still existed
on the stand aud market truck in abundance was raised
and grandEothers who read these lines can strictly
rsooliect when as boys and sirs they walked across
to "the orchards" or, 10 winter 'coasted" down
Murray Hill on their stout bat in nowise fancy sleds.
but now whs, changsi Even Blocker street, which
but few siace separated the astocratc from The
pebeian 'cits" and the Rubicon across which, for
permanent residence golden boat could alono convey
ths passenger Is now no longer the dividing limo be-
bW00u MamHOu
has grasped the entire lower portion Of tho city for his
purposes and his shrnes are dey surrounded BY thou
sands Of worshppefs whose chant is incessant and
whose suppications are FOR
Bright and yellow, hard and cold
0ut the advance docs stop here. Fashion has be
-con.sastiy ard gradually removing her throne yet
further up town. Even the end Madison square
becoming OF trade aud traffic. and the Tor
occupancy nguracd long ago between commerce and
sas nckls goddess still wascd with earnes ness and
obduacy To speak plainly rcpectablly now seeks TO
plant itself around Central Park, aud trade occupying
che former sites OF its glitter and display Soon, indeed
within past decade OF years. the whole island win be
devoted solely TO business purposes and residences will
North and the Harlem rivers.
SALES or RIAL ESTATE.
A index of the constantly increasing value OF real
estate sdooin the following figures Of sales lately
% 81 81 Sas nS'
vas scd within the past six months chansins owners
thee tines at the for $3.50 900
s S5 ave- Cs on
brought only was cold since December the lstor
5000 fun To- on The north :do o. Broadway BE-
~ location, the building on Y being Of little value
brought = private sale sig ooo lcassho s property
hundred and twenty Ave feet. was sold for $500 600
piece Of property in Broadway, near Spring street
bought for $4,000 An English basement house,
together With IT'S To-. on Filth Avenue. near Twenty
sixth street, having frontage Of only seventeen feet
Two years ago shI. same property sod for $4,000
locality. having frontage ca Fifth avenue OF twenty
feet, brought wi,hou, much hesitaucy from the puf
chaser, ts2 b0o Two domcic. IN Broome street. near
Greene tnciher Of the ba,Idngs being Of much
vaiss reached the hiah nsurc OF $4,000
now doing Sssn IS in Chambers street, s have
secured the lease u the eve lofts 81 the Merchants
ssiocn) annual rental Of ssl Tho 6uidins is
Gay feet front ~ one hundred and ll.y dep And In
business thoroughfares OF tho city.
MORE psvsSpyp.
The genera complaint Is that there rot buildings
suh,cisni accommodate ts busaess public anywhere
tsow Cauai street, aud consequently noasly all pro.
Of rcsIaence Is row being altered supply the demand
created for stores, counting ooms shops, &c Super
sase NEW IN s s ns a sS
1olO, being $50 more than were put up In 1865. OF
~ ss wsr $ ona l Most as o
p. asSss !. s asy.r s ~s Ra,
easy roach Of The rivers, y number OF
eses ou ,hs es ,ns 1s sSsass aaa
altogether nsitcisnt while The need for them s con-
st.ntIy on The increase Large rentals e. willingly
sumber we're 70 be had they could nnd immediate
lesssss Tho supply Of residences. TO, Is t,tsy In.
aaeluate tho demand; and 10 this more than any
other cause may be attributed the high rents thar
been demanded for the past three Years II costs now
cs ns 20 The increased vsluc bo,i Of and q
labor, than did IN ans esm ,Ino,; and for this
psct Il would have been An impetus seems 70 have
beeu given 70 ths OF late however and Judging
from present ind the year 1897 viii surpass al i
predecessors In the erection both OF stores and resi-.
yn,crs ASKED FOR RIVAL ESTATE.
Tia following arc some Of The prices asked for pro-
ps il vacus parts o. inc sy IA '5ss ssss evs
nrss i,t 81 by zoo fsst as SOP; ,nrcc s'o-v ..ws
nous. in Sullivan street }ui lot Ell S5 three story
erc 65uie n iexinsca syenae near street so
IN West Forty nnth street, between Finh ana ssxte
avenues So 0o0; brick house In West Twenty eighth
rrec between Broadway aad Sixth avenue, $40, 500
-FOUR story brown front house In West Twenty as
street lot % BY 1o3 feet $4,000 brown stone mont
four story house In West Fourteenth street rurnshed
ia GOO brown stone house Park avenue, lo feet
ssp building Is bv OIL feet $4,000 the building known
inc Church Of the Purtsns tDr CheeTers corner OF
n f.aerlh sireot and Union aauare. Is BY la feet.