The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-21
TO OPEN eighth STREET
Alderman McCoobery and
Other Property Own
ers Want Access
10 the Hill.

Alderman Joseph McCoobery and a
number Of other property owners along
the line of Eighth street and a few others
holding land near Eighth street, are dis
cussing the ACCESSIBILITY of forming a
Property Owners League, looking to the
Improvement of streets north Of Newark
avenue. The chief object of the Associa-
tion will be to secure. through the Street.
and Water Board, the opening and grad
ing Of Eighth street TO the Hill. The
s.kuock-out', by the Bad Senator of the
bill drafted at the request of the Seven
teenth street property owners has
not In any way discouraged Alder
nan McCuobery and his associates.
They believe they can get the signature
of every property owner along the line OF
Eighth street from the North River to
where 1t now ends abruptly in the
swamps. BY direct assessment the i'm
proyement can be made, aud Alderman
McCoobery believes hat the cost of
bringing the street to grade will not
greatly exceed the cost of an ordinary
street Improvement. This also being the
belief of his associates, they intend trying
to get the improvement made, knowing
that if done, 1t will advance the value OF
real estate in the locality az least W
fold.
The engineering difficulties have been
thoroughly considered and MIR. McCoobery
and his associates believe the improve
ment can be made without disturbing the
West Shore OF the junction Railroad. To
open Eighth street is comparatively an
easy task. when contrasted with the
opening of Il street north OF that line.
The distance to be raised to grade does not
exceed 200 feet, and the grade to be made
from the poinGSwhere the street is now inn
proved to the point where 1t would
intersect Newark avenue would not be as
great as the grade required to elevate the
tracts of the Erie Railroad from the tun-
mel to the ferry. This being a fact, Alder
man McCoobery and his associates are
loath to let the street remain wholly cut
off from the hill. Eighth street, II raised
to grade, would connect with Newark ay-
enue at the point where the Jersey City
and Bergen Railroad bridge crosses over
the West Shore Road by means of Il bridge.
No changes in the bridge would be nec-
essary. Continuing the other side of
Newark avenue. it would cut through by
the real estate Office of James Means.
Alderman McCoobery is now preparing
a petition tor signatures, which, when
fully signed, will be presented to the
Street and Water Commissioners. No
approval OF the Board, aud great pressure
will be brought to bsar upon the Inanc
Commissioners to concur.
The scheme has a good financial back
ing.
Transfers.
James F. Woodmency, for SS,395, lot II, Block
90, at Provost and Thirteenth streets.
William Meir to Albert Conradt's, for $4,000,
lots ID and Is, ~easterly side of Durham avenue.
August R Mills to John F. Mills, fer ST, Block
2l1, bounded northerly by Mercer street, easteriy
by Mill Cieek, southerly by Montgomery street,
and westerly by Fremont street.
Michael Doyle to William II. Dalton, for 81, on
on ndrtherly side of Fifth street, l00 feet west
erly from Grove street.
Frederick w. Grelle to William D. DAILY, for
$500, land and premises, easterly side OF Gar
den street.
Henry Henshamer to James Wylie for $3.50,
property on westerly side of Lynwood street, III
kearney, twenty-f1 five feet from Alton street.
Harriet Underhill to John Leveridge for $4,000,
land and premises at Bayonne, on the easterly
side of 1rask avenue, fifty feet northerly from
West Second street.
Central New Jersey Land Improvement Com
pany to John Leveridge for s., 100, property oa
northerly side of West Sixth street, go feet west
OF Avenue c, property on corner ~ofsNewman
avenue and West sixth street, property on
southerly side of West Sixth street, l6o feet east
from Humphreys avenue.
Edward Stanton as Sheriff to John F. Kitchell.
property on southerly side of Fifth street, 168
feet from Monmouth street.
Adam Slegfried to Martiuenghi Giacoma for
$3.50. Lot Is, Block :276. in North Bergen, and
premises on lot IS and northerly part of lot IL
on Bulls Ferry road.
Paola Rodice to Frank Miener, for $675, lot on
north side of Division street, 100 feet east OF
Spring street, in West Hoboken.
Carl Gustav, Adolphe HohIe to John Dilger,
for $44), lot 19, Block z, in Union.
John C. Whitman, for $50, lot on southSlde OF
Twenty-eighth street, l4S feet westerly from
Bulls Ferry Road.
Eugene Roget TO Louis Noble, for 1900, land.
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