The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-13
REAL ESTATE NEWS.
improvements in the Section
North Of the Erie Railroad
Mr.. Connoliy's Enterprise.

The erection of a big hve-story brick
fiat on the northwest corner of Grove
and Seventeenth streets is the beginning
of a new era in building in that local
ity. Contractor Patrick Connolly, " ~
did the pile driving for the new City
Hall Is the gentleman who has made the
venture. He has done 1t in the face OF
considerable opposition advanced by
friends. No less active and far-seeing
Spectator than John P. Feeney- told
Mr.. Connolly that such a fiat would not
pay. He was advised to try his luck
with a IRENE tenement not so many
stories in height.
neglected, Mr.. Connolly replied. w
nave within the past few years made
I traek pfo YES up here north of the
paved and that has improved our prop
erty. Some effort has been made to i'm
prove Y ewage system, and property
owners nave to the fact that
tnelr holdings will amount to some
thin. If they will work together to OBJ
tam improvements to sunken lots, where
pools OF stagnan water c stood and
are disappearing n owners are build
ing. OF course most of the houses be-
ing erected are small. but they all help,
particularly when one notices that they
appear to rent to advantage.
Il believe my fiat will help the neigh
borhood, and / hope that more property
owners VIII follow suit
TWO THINGS NECESSARY,
There are only two things necessary
to be done by the city to make prop
erty In that locality as valuable as any
where else. and to make it as desirable
section of the city. The first is to open
Erie street to Hoboken and pave it. No
one will kick if it is paved with cobbles
SO long as it opens up communication
with .H0h0knn Thn Cannnd &c tn mo
Seventeenth street to the Hill. Seven
teenth street is graded above Jersey ave
nue.. and the expense of filling in and
cutting an opening through The rock
into Hoboken avenue would be COM
paratively small when compared with
the benefits derived.
the adjoining property. 1t is well built,
and is fitted with all the modern i'm
proponents 1t is about half completed,
and Mr.: Connolly is pleased to an
made to him for every flat. The rents
he is demanding compare favorably
with those Of other parts of the city.
There Is every probability that Seven
of the Erie tracks that will be opened
to the Hill.
With such active men behind the pro;
John Casey, there is no doubt but what
its Improvement will quickly follow.
That territory is going to have a big
BOOM Nothing can prevent it: The
Edelstein at Pavonia avenue and Grove
street is completely filled. Every floor
has been rented. and even the little
stores one-story high in the reas are
we'll rented.
Mr.. FEENEYs CONFIDENCE.
John P. Feerey has such confidence in
the growth of the locality that he is
investing SIS, 900 in a first-class rive-story
fiat at Jersey avenue and Ninth street.
Ground has been broken for a i've
story fiat on the corner of Pavonia i've
, nue. and Henderson street. Mrs. E. Dris-
coll is the. builder. The estimated cost
of the building is 10000. Real estate
dealers believe the "old horseshoe" is
destined to become the best fat rent
ing section in the city. There is plenty
of unimprovad property there, n specu-
lators should gobble some of 1T up, while
theS market is so low
> Superintendent McCully. of the New
York and New Jersey Telephone Com
pany, has complied with the request Of
Grove street property owners in the
neighborhood of Wayne. and removed ali
the guy wires which defaced the poles.
Contractor John Nolan, who purchased
so many of the old buildings acquired
by the City Hall Commissioners, has
broken ground for a four-story brick
mouth and Brunswick streets. This will
be the second fiat he has been able to
construct with the old material.
Transfers.
Henry c. Bidwell to Marguerite schappel
for s4oO. lot No. 100, in Block l,222.
Hugh T. Adams to Antonio Coty for 81. 900,
lots Nos. AZ and 4S. in Block No. 3.
Mary Agnes Rutschine to George T. Howard
| for 5000, lot No. /, in Block No. $50.
Hugh N. Camp and wife to Hermann Wal
| ker for 81, lots Nos. 43, A, As, 46, 81. 50, So.
SO, 81, IS, 50, 80, 81, So. So. 262. 1858, 2s4, 265.
266, 2s7, 26s, 269, 80, 81, 272. 2S3, 2Ss, 300, POI,
! 292 and 2SS, in H~ighwood Park. Weehawken.
/ Hugh N. Camp and wife and Hermann Wal
ker to Henry J.. Gordon for $500. lots Nos,