The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-31
REAL ESTATE NEWS.
Lafayette to Be Improved-Hal-
laday Street Will Be Opened
to Grand.

The Street and Water Commissioners
have under consideration a plan which
will benefit the Lafayette section of the
city materially. In a few words, 1t Is TO
open, grade and pave Halliday street
from its present beginning over to Grand
street. For a stranger to locate Halliday
street is not an easy task. Street signs
are as conspicuous by their absence in
the Lafayette section as policemen are in
times of trouble. Lafayette citizens are
not inclined to be communicative, but
when one is ound who will talk the first
thing he says is that Jersey City officials
are 'N.G." His. reason for condemning
them is that they have permitted a rail-
road company to practically fence them
in with a big embankment on the south
side, while in years gone by another cor
poration was allowed to put a filthy
ditch between them and Jersey City
proper, and that now officials will give
them no other outlet to the lower part
of Jersey City than the one bridge over
Pacific avenue. These complaints are
based on facts. Lafayette is growing,
and certainly requires more and better
accommodations for Reaching Grand
street. Pacific avenue is practically
owned by the Consolidated Traction Com
pany, and trucking there is seriously
THE OPENING NEEDED.
Halliday street on the city map runs
parallel with Pacific avenue. and is the
next street north of it. So much of it
as is opened is well paved, and, as a
whole, is occupied by q good class of
people, who seem to a IN interest in
improving the appearance of their homes.
Thu lower end, near the canal, is be-
ginning to run down. People dump gar
ha cn fhnrQ& and tho evil affect nf this
proceeding is being keenly felt.
The opening of Halladay street to
Grand street necessitates, in the first
the Morris Canal similar to the one now
over Pacific avenue. To build it at grade
is impossible, because the Canal Com
pany would undoubtedly interpose seri-
Gus objections, OF the ground that it
would be an obstruction TO traffic. The
greater part of the expense YOU be
in having a bridge built, as the filing
in, which would be required from the
north side of the canal to Grand street,
would be small.
HOW TO DIMINISH THE COST.
1t has been suggested already that the
expense in this line would be greatly re-
duced by permitting Street Contractor
Byrnes to fill it in with street scrapings
and ashes. The cost of the Improvement
would be nothing in comparison to the
benefits which would result. 1t would be
come a business thoroughfare in a short
time, and open up communication with
a territory now practically cut off from.
the city. The filling in of the meadow
and north of the canal would follow, and
in short order the Tax Commissioners
would have assessments to levy on three
or four solid blocks of tenement houses,
instead of valueless swamps, as at pres
ent.
Such improvements as this are neces-
sary, and the sooner all the disgraceful
mud holes in the city are removed the
better it will be for realty generally.
Lafayette property owners are delighted
with the prospects Of the streets being
opened in the spring.
MIR. VAN WINKLE HOPEFUL.
Real Estate Agent ]. E. Van Wrinkle
said of the market:-''The general opin-
ion is that we have seen the lowest
prices. Owners are holding on rather
stiffly in prices. 1t is not difficult to
sell within what are considered fairly
low values. The people of New York
and neighboring cities are more tina
we'll pleased with the facilities for rapid
transit. The opinion is that values should
increase and that rapidly. Two or three
out of town people are inquiring for de-
tached houses upon the HILL"