The evening world., 1904-02-29
Landlords Decide that Tenants
of Flats Must Pay from 2 to
8 Per Cent. More a Month;
Houses in Proportion.
20 TO 30 PER CENT. MORE
ON UPPER WEST SIDE.
Advances Said to Be Due to In
i creased Taxes and the Com
pletion of SubWay-Harlem
Tenants Will Suffer.

Rents for every kind OF property and
especially for fats and apartments. will
be Increased the coming spring.
The Rhinelander Real-Estate Com
pany. one of the largest Individual
holders Of renting property in the city.
has already announced that on May /
II would raise the rentals of its prop
erty.
The rents of flats will go UP from 2
to per cent. while the rents OF pri-
vate houses will be increased from 81
TO $50 a month.
For several weeks real-e agents
and owners have been talking of in
oreaslng rents. The principal reason
seems to be that there has not been
q general increase for long time. The
excuse offered now Is that taxes are
higher. the cost of maintenance greater
and operating expenses on the Increase.
Landlords on the east side, the upper
west side. Yorkville, Harlem, the Bronx
and Brooklyn already are notifying their
tenants of the increases. Some of these
increases will take effect commencing
tomorrow. Others will be deferred a
month and all will have become effective
BY May /.
Big Increase on West Side.
In the new apartment-house districts
on the upper west side and In Harlem
some increases will go as high as 20
and 30 per cent.
On the east side landlords have been
nudging dollar or two on to the old
rents each month for several months.
This fact, with the increase in the price
OF bread and other foodstuffs, Is be-
coming startlingly serious matter to
the common tenant and wage-earner.
1t is expected that other large es-
tates Will follow the example of the
Rhinelander Real-Estate Company and
announce a general increase in rents.
These advances are also made in
office buildings and store property
where the leases expire this spring.
These leases will not be renewed by
the owners except at an advanced price
In speaking of his company's increase
In the rate of rentals, the manager OF
the Rhinelander Company said:
The. Rhlnelander Company has not
made general raise In Its rents for
several years, and the advance now
should be considered more as a read
2ustment than anything else. Our taxes
or two. and our running expenses have
increased also.
"No Other Course TO Take.n
"There was no other course for us to
take by which we could protect our in
terests. i want to say, however, that
with the present increase the rents on
property owned by the Rhinelander
Company will, compare lively speaking,
be just about the same as the rents
charged by other large property holders
In the city"
Business property in Harlem Is prob
ably affected the most seriously. The
completion OF the subway, together with
the erection of many handsome and
high-priced apartments, has induced the
landlords OF business property to be-
lieVe that they can get much more
rent for their holdings
One merchant who has been in busi-
ness for fifteen years in One Hundred
and Twentv-fifth street has been nori-
fied that his rent will he Increased from
$1,000 to $4,000. He says he will have
to abandon the business.
Other increases of from 30 to 30 per
cent. in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street business places have been ordered
by the landlords. The merchants say
the landlords are speculating on the
effect the subway will have on Harlem
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