The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-19
Long Island.

The approaching completion Of the Black
wells Island Bridge, with the greatly IN
creased trantc that II will bring TO the north
shore Of Long Island. especially, In automo-
bihss, is one OF the reasons given by residents
IN Broadv " Flushing and beyond 10 the city
line for demanding that the city shall put
Broadway In thorough repair Tor its en'lre
length, a distance OF about three miles. ~ a
meeting held this week at Rayslde resolutions
were passed calling upon the city authorities
% take immediate action In the matter.
B'oadvay Is the principal route for automo-
hl.ss 10 points along the north shore, and runs
for a mile through Broadway-tlushing, past
Douglas Manor and through Westmoreland
a. the city line. In these three properties
alone the RiCkeTt- Finlay Realty company
has spent more on street improvements IN
Two years than the city has spent for the same
purpose In the whole Borough Of Queens, and
these Developments. with others similar, have
greatly increased the taxable value OF the
section, 80 that It's right TO have It's main THOR
oughiare Kept Ia the best condition II evident.
william H. Maxwell d Co. have sold for the
Russell estate thirty-iOur parcels in the DutCh
hl|lS section. John j. Mc(iTane was the
lstReSt purchaser. His purchase brings MS
holdings 10 Long Island city TO oyer s. ,OOO,VS,
The property has been in the Russell family
since 1856 The thirty-fouT parcels sold for
lSO.ooo, This Is the largest sale made in Long
Island CITY IN two yeare, The expected
epening Of the Greensboro Blackwells Island
bndgs for ttaf1c early this fall is causing
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ftook!yn real estate investors and spcculs
ton In this part OF Long Island City.
Inc work OF grading and regulating NC
boushlin Park, the Vaudeville Investors
Jana avenue and COney island avenue and
hubbard street, has been completed from
avenues y to H., including East Seventh
suse, Desmond, dunno and Gerald courts
begin the setting Of curbs and the laying Of
slueWa KS n this part Of the pr operty on Mon
nay among the purchasers Of property on
zee tracl this week were Margaret Guilty,
~ american RIO, Horace Becker, the -Four
hbers, Joe WelCh aud Robert Scott.
Garden CIV Estates has sold at its property
bN Skinner the plot 6OXlOO OF the west
t,ue OF hrlN'On road. $50 feet south Of Sails
UlrE areule' TO +. u, BLACK the plot 6OHlOO
GA No west side NJ kensin gton road, 100 feet
Euth n south avenue. TO Charles Curtin the
tIol o,NI." on the west side Of kensingtOn
Fann' 10 feet north Of Salisbury avenue; to
sm1n 'hart"is the plot 60XlOO at the
@"u,hWes' corner Of koNbury roHd and Sails
sg,t avenue 10 | +. Dounell the plot 0ONl0O
u1 tne Nrs' side Of kuStOn road, ~ feet south
y oh'Shury avenue. 10 VI. y. Wintringham
!, G'ol "'Nl" on the west ride Of kensingtOn
hPaq' 20, loot Lor'h Uf Chester avenue. TO
z. raj. fhr plot 1lyiNl on the west side Of
road wv N'"'" VI
t 1'nar'uts IN construction work will be
I'II'H0 %" The suburban Brooklyn Real
IT,, | wv IT. N0tFlNI'Hl leTIh't property
pont'nS on Iprpv Island avenue hetween
u,aveSsnf NN'N road grd canal avenue.
%os' ol 'ae 'raCt has iFau restricted and the
en- ,''o o' private detar'tl dwellings made
,nLll.S" wo family houses are now
itts'S''I hv Tho increasing value 81 property
~ .'t''- ~ ward ~ brooklyn and a
ls..''f 'n| he erected 10 meet the demand for
To- ,o". which a revenue can be derived.
,,s 1--WE y ne NJ loot mHcddarni2ed boulevard
~, 'i'ht the property, has been set aside
~. 'l'f''s purposes, and during the week
an, r1lN sold u corner plot on that thor
rwisl'Are near the Shore road which will be
: 4 site Tor 4 general store.
N'.'s. A. Whitestone. l., /, il situated on
~ NJ and, With n large frontage on
20 49, liver. al Pow clls cove. il is reached
il \orth Shore division Of the Long
',i Ha0tnad which will be electrified dur
A., mo- ear " hen the Pennsylvania tunnels
o. '',l'e'ed through trains will run direct
r, Manhattan N the property in twenty
~ Tie present running time being
minutes When completed the place
~, q4munity of restricted houses Of
' iUN With maoadAm streets, grAno-