New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
m SELL $40 LOTS
Tract Is the Mess Estate Hold
ing, in West Bronx.
NM NEW SUBWAY ROUTE
last Large Parcel in Vicinity
Available for Immediate
Improvement.

On the West Bronx since the Gou-
,.rpeur Morris sale of three or four years
20 and what promises to be the las,
,..,or,ant realty auction of 1918. is listed
~, october Is. when the $40 lots owned
she Moss estate will be sold in the
yssey street salesroom.
Tho sale will be conducted by Joseph p.
nv and !. Clarence Davies.
The Moss holdings are bounded, rough
81. rorome avenue on the east. Ma
..roh's Road on the west, 176th street on
- north and Belmont street on the
..,,b in the very heart Of the section
,r,,,b will be most benefited by the sub
- extension UP Jerome avenue. Be
.as<s frontage Of about 200 feet. forty
sight lots. OH the west side OF Jerome
.ysnue the property also includes the
,ro block fronts on the east side of that
s,enue from l74th TO 176th street. an addi-
.o,al thirty-one lots, so that more than
.,s-Afth of the entire Offering is made
-, of lots facing the main artery Of the
,a,,ion Jerome avenue, to the east. and
v.coub's Road. TO the west, are both
,ylfoot tboroughfares. while Grand ave
On. and Featherbed Lane. both Of which
sntersect the property. are opened TO the
width of 50 feet.
The Moss property. which is the last
I.,0s marcel in that vicinity available for
,,,,roe6iate Improvement. has been held
,r tho Moss family for about half CEN
,r-v Theodore W. Moss died in 1891.
nssnIte the fact that this neighborhood
is about 10 enter upon what many think
vii be the period Of its most rapid ad-
v.,ce in value. the Moss heirs are anx-
ious for a division Of the estate and have
A.,ded that the auction room. even
,boueh II will probably mean a sacrifice.
8. the quickest and surest way TO bring
,his about
Those who hav oxamined in detail
what is in store TO- section under the
yual ulsn Of rapid G.. .sit find much more
vb,, the mere fact that there is TO be ar
elevated road up Jerome avenue. This
,or,s has been laid out as the westerly
ranch OF the Lexington avenue subway.
iymauy important is the fact that the
Isrone avenue line Is 10 be connected
Nth the West Side al" system at 10th
s.reet. so that residents Of the west Bronx
s5l have the choice Of East Side or West
GIde routes through Manhattan.
81 far as stations are concerned, the
Moss holdings have been particularly well
treated in the laying out of the Jerome
i,venue route At the southerly and north
priv limits OF the property-that is, at
Belmont street and 10th street-there will
Be local stations. while the next stop
oorth Of 176th street, Burnside avenue
| Fll be an express station.
Present transit facilities also afford a
,hoce Of routes from this section 10 the
lower parts of the city. A five minutes
,roley ride or a walk not too long for
morning and evening constitutional
Brings one across Washington Bridge 10
me lnst street subway station. BY the
Jerome avenue trolley II is only a slightly
tnger ride down 10 the elvated terminal
a l55th street. The Jerome avenue line
connects with the whole OF The Bronx
trolley system while block north OF the
property 10 be sold Is fremont avenue.
he principal crosStown thoroughfare Of
hat region
Just to the couth Of the Moss tract are
Dew five and six story apartment houses
what used to be part Of the ogden es-
ate where Mr.. Day sold lots six years
AGO FOR SEQ and N,7Co each that are now
aeld at 500 Similarly, TO the west, the
property subdlvided and sold at about the
tame time by the Century Realty Com
1any is dotted here and there with new
structures. Thanking the Moss holdings
On the north is the University Heights
.enees
Builders who have gone into this sec
lion are said TO have been uniformly sue
sessful. and 10 have found little difficulty
IN getting tenants for their houses upon
completion at rents averaging from $ 10
ga room. This is regarded as a strong
ind!eation OF what is in store for this part
OF The Bronx when II gets it's full meas
IRE Of rapid transit
With its large frontage on Jerome ave-
me Il Is anticipated that the subdivision
Of The Moss property will open up what
has hitherto been through conditions OF
ownership the inactive area in an other
wise Progressive section, and will have a
stimulating influence on a good deal of
NE surrounding territory.
his property has been lying dormant
ioF many years. and when rapid transit Is
opened through this section property Will
JUMP as rapidly in value, II IS thought as
Old In the East Bronx when the sub
way was opened there. Lots in the East
Bronx were selling in 1904 for from $3.50 tc
'leS The subway started running on No
'einoer p Of that year. and sixty days
snerward the price Of lots reached from
400 to $500