New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-14
BIG DEALS ON LONG ISLAND.
PURCHASES MADE FOR PENNSYLVANIA-ON TRACT
n FARM CULTIVATED BY CHINAMEN.
Plans for BIoomngdae Reformed Church FdBader to I'M
proUe 4udubonaue Plot.

The New-YOrk Connecting Railway Company
which is building a road to connect one OF the
Pennsylvania tunnel stations Long Island. with
the tracks of the New York New-Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company at Port Morris, has pur-
chased 100 lots at WOodside from the Cord Meyer
company. The lots are in what is known as Char
lotteve and represent part of the right of way the
company is securing to build that part of the road
from the Long Island tracks at Woodside TO the
East River front at Astoria.
The same company has purchased large part
of the Kouwenhoven farm. at Steinway, Long
Island City. The land which it has secured has
for years been under cultivation by n number of
Chinese farmers, who have found a profitable mar
ket for their garden products in Manhattan This
farm has attracted widespread attention. The
Cinnamon have been able. it is said. to get several
crops each year off the land.
Farmland in the town of Newtown worth $500 900
has passed into the possession of the Watawok
Land Company, corporation owned by the Penn
sylvana Railroad Company The property COM
prises seventeen farms lying in what is known as
the "Whitepot' section of the town The farms
were all purchased by Victor Andrews. as an agent
1t is said, of the Pennsylvania Railroad The price
paid for the land ranged from $1,000 to $4,000 an acre
The same company owns other farms in Newtown
that cost them about $l,4OO0J0 that their total
holdings in that particular section represent
me Whtepot land is to be improved for resi-
houses ranging in cost from $40 Geo re sI5 80 and
70 lay out the grounds around them something on
stricted and made fine residential section
Inc main line OF the Long Island Railroad runs
through the property, and ID be- increased from
four to six tracks. the additional ones being for
loctI eIectrlc service and the others for express
trans as previously reported A station will be
erected on the tract 1t is said the station will
be named Forest Park.
The same land company owns fully six hundred
acres OF unimproved land of jamaica. which
Is also to be improved on the same plan Its hold
Queens.
Plans have been filed with the Bureau of Build
lngs: Manhattan for the new church edihce to be
erected in West End-ave, just south of 1J7th-st..
for the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, of which
the Rev. William c. Stinson is pastor. present
house of worship is at 6Sth-st. and Broadway.
The new building will be Of Gothic STYLE with
FACADE Of brick with trimmings of limestone.
The structure will have avenue frontage of
seYenty-1ve feet and a depth of one hundred feet.
The main building will be story with a gal
lery, and the annex three stories. There win be
a central main entrance, with smaller entrances
on either side. Over the main entrance will be q
large memorial window with three panels of
decorated glass. The building is to cost $4,000.
Ludlow & Valentine the architects.
Schneider & Reinlieb have sold plot S2x145 feet
at the southwest corner of 17Sth-st. and Audubon
to a builder, who will improve the premises
with three five story fathOuses