New-York tribune., 1908-08-09
BRONX MARKET STABLE
M4NY BUILDING PLANS.
Number for July Call for Outlay OF
$500. 700.

These prophets who last year predicted that tiie
building and real estate boom in The Bronx hau
reached its zenith must have ainendeo pi"pheN'
+. tie last few weeks The recent records of the
transactions in property in the borough apoNo INC
Harlem show ANYTHING but a backward tenoehcs-
In the month of July there e-lo5 plans hieu @ -
The Bronx. calling for an expenditure VI
The total estimated cost of new buildings III ihat
borough for which plans were filed from 'ai"SiS
80 s6.ss6eS5.
One of the signs Of prosperity IN Ihe brohA 10
the fact that during the recent depression 'iee
hardly a vacant store in Cd ave between l4o'h anu
156th sts Nor is The district just ABOVE
the latter point looked upon few years ago
as dead locality a business point OF Vle"
but is rapidly developing into the business cen
tire of The Bronx.
In the section above fremont ave. extending 10
Pelham and east of Webster ave- there Is d
large CITY In area Twenty-Five years this sec
ton did not contain the population of a smaH VII
age-iu fact, 1t the custom TO senu man
matter with the address reading only fremont
Fordfam Belmont, Fairmount. Mount Hope or
West Farms.
Twenty-Five years ago the erection of six or elsht
one family frame dwellings at time would be
heralded in the local press an extensive pulld-
ing operation, while to-day within five blocks On
one street are being erected fifteen five ana SIX
story modern apartments to house probably over
cne thousand persons than lived in the en-
tire locality twenty-five years ago and TINS IN
district where few years ago the Board OF ECU
cation recommended the erection OF PRIMARY
school to seat 800 pupils The plans were afterward
altered to a grammar school seating 1900 which
was overcrowded within three months OF It's COM
pleton There is assured in the near future at least
six modern school buildings. seating from two thou
sand three thousand each.
There are seven and eight subway and
elevated trains, and hundreds of troeys are now
taxed TO their capacity transporting TO and from
Manhattan a small proportion Of The Bronx people
where few years ago few one-horse cars an
swered the purpose And even with the talk of the
Brooklyn and Jersey tunnels retardng the growth
of The Bronx the fact remains that for every fam
lily moving from The Bronx to Brooklyn over 2oo
are moving into The Bronx from other boroughs.
One of the important transactions of the last
week in The Bronx was the sale of block of lots
which will be erected nine apartment houses,
of five stories and eight of four stories.
Work upon the extension of Westchester and
fremont aves. through Throgs Neck Gardens is
we'll under way. The Eastern Boulevard, run
ming through the section in question, is also to be
widened and extended to and across the Harlem
River. BY the completion of these improvements a
decided impetus will be given to realty dealing
throughout the zone affected. Students of condi-
tions who have made careful study of the growth
metropolis in the last twenty yve years think
the day far distant when the Throgs Neck
section will closely built up with residences of a
superior type
In speaking about the trend of population, a rep
resentative of a development company said:
I'm the last twenty five years the East Side south
of 42d st has shown increase in population of 80
to 10 per cent while the corresponding sections OF
the Side show a decrease of from "a to 81 per
cent. Between 42d and 127th St the population
of the East Side has increased from 40 to S37 per
cent. and the West Side from "a to 7Ss per cent.
During the period the population of The
Bronx has increased LIZ per cent. against 7S6 per
for all the rest of Manhattan Island These
figures show concusively that the line of the city
fastest development has been and is right through
the southern part of The Bronx"
Plans for the following new buildings have been
filed the Bronx bureau of buildings:
Home st, southwest corner Vyse ave, five story
brick and tenement house, 400 3-5x743 feet;
O'Leary Real and Construction Company, owner;
John p Boyland. architect; $4,000.
Vyse ave- side, 400 3-5 feet south of Home
ST. two four story brick tenement houses 31x65 feet
each; O'Leary Realty and Construction Company.
owner; John P. BoyIand, architect; $4,000
Home st, south side, s26 feet west of Vyse ave.
three four story brick tenement houses, 81
feet each; O'Leary Realty and Construction Com
pany, owner; John p Boyland, architect; $4,000.