The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-23

for a station at Schuyler Square, where Broad
way and West End avenue cross. At this point. the
very heart of the upper west side. both local and ex-
press trains will be available. which. with an under.
ground and surface trolley system on Broadway.
for use to nearby points. will give this section
Of the city unsurpassed transportation facilities.
There will be such an emigration from the downtown
districts to the upper west side that. until the build
ers can catch up and provide room for the influx.
there is going to be trouble for the late corners.
which is an argument for getting in thus favored sec
ton at once.
That there is a great lot OF open ground available
for building purposes on the upper west side is
generally known: what is not generally known is
what has lately been accomplished there in the
building line. In the hrst place. the character OF
Broadway above Tooth street has changed with
In q month. In addition to the many new buildings
that have gone up there recently. the foundations OF
three new seven.story al artment houses have been
laid within two werks. One is on the west side OF
Broadway, twenty-sir feet north Of 1uTtll street;
another on the east side. twenty feet south of IO3th
street. and a third fifty feet south Of Iooth street
and running clear through to West End avenue.
On the other hand many private residence sales
have been brought to a successful issue within the
W. L. Brown. has recently purchased from Chas.
Buck a house. 4ox1Oo, on Riverside Drive. between
10th and 77th sts. paying $lO5. Oo) for same. while
q Mr.. Leech has purchased from Clarence True an
elegant residence at the corner or Eightieth street
and Riverside Drive.
Mr.. Horsford paid 500, 900 to Vim. Bradley for q
mansion on the northeast corner OF Eighty ixth
street. and Albert Flake sold the house. 271lOo. be-
tween Eighty ninth and Sinetleth streets. to Mrs.
White for $l25.ooo. and purchased Gen. Nirlc's
house. A b. K!ght sold the one house he had
left out OF several. This house is located on the
southeast corner OF 1o4th street and is 22x1Oo.
Many other transactions have also taken place,
Petar Wagner having aOli a block OF houses on 1npd
street. while Daily 4 Carlston have sold to Chas. 3.
Brown for q client one Of the seven. story apartment
houses described in an article in THE SUN OF March
20. Indeed, Mr.. WAgner's houses wero also de-
scribed at that time.
How much the demand for homes will exceed
the supply, though, once rapid transit becomes
an established fact, those who have watched the
northwardc creep OF the residence portion OF the town
As transportation facilities have increased know
only too we'll. And so we do not regard 1t as mop
| perfume to say: Now is the time
There are certain men to SEQ in the real estate
business. as in every other business where a trans
action Of any importance is 10 be ~nsummGt
and It IL equally true that there are certain men not
whom 1t is advisable for New Workers Contemplating
the renting OF, purchasing OF houses on the upper
The oldest real estate house on the west side. ono
Of the Oldest In the city, 30 long a landmark at Co.
27s7 Broadway between lo7tl aud lVsth streets. 1t
IL the house presided over by Nj. Charles T.. Srhuy-
brokerage busiue ss are Messrs. Gcelge ". Rowan.
Ii. @. Julian, and NJ. Monahan. Hero is a house
whatever he wants in the way OF a house or an apart.
ment, where he can transact his business in a bury
mation. and the property that is to be- disposed OF
placed before him in an honest fashion: The repu.
tation OF the house Of Charles Il. schuyler & Co. in
real estate ~circleSis such that any further common
dalton would be superinous. Its success has been
built on . policy OF thorough honesty and universal
courtesy.