New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-10
HAPPENINGS IN QUEENS
Papers Recorded Indicate
Healthy Realty Conditions.
NEW BUILDINGS PLANNED
Applications for Week Total 63
Structures, Estimated to
Cost S245, 1000.

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There is a steady, consistent increase IN
the volume Of business in the ONCE OF
County Clerk Leonard Roun OF queens
according 10 a report made by him last
week for the month Of July. The papers
recorded there indicate that in all Sec
tons Of the borough the realty conditions
are healthy. In the month of July there
were filed .30l deeds of transfers and l,ol1
MORTGAGES For the first seven months or
the year there were recorded 2l,SS5 pa
pers. as compared with 2O,09 during a
similar period last year.
A sale involving nearly 100000 and IN
GLIDING about 20 blocks has just been
consummated in the Rockaway section
where the Queens officials have just
adopted tentative maps. At West Rock
away. extending across the Rockaway
peninsula. the West Rockaway Land
COMPANY conveyed SIS lots to the Belle
Observation-Disclosures Realty Company unc1
Included in the property sold is strip
of shore front between high ana 10"
water marks and the land under the
ocean front and Jamaica Bay eX'ehulns
nortnerly from Lincoln. Monmouth fe'
ham. Orienta, Winthrop and chester ave
nues. The conveyance was made SUBJECT
TO a mortgage of $4,000
ON a plot of 1900 square feet whlch the
New York and Queens Electric Light ana
Power Company acquired last week. Oh
Van WICK avenue, Jamaica near inc
new terminal building of the Long lslalu
Railroad. a four story pressed oilck
bunding. which will include the man
arer's office for the Jamaica district
elb-station to which power Will be trans
ferred from the Astoria and Long lsidhu
CIV mower houses of the company, ana
which will be the main distributing sta
ton for the Jamaica section VIII DC Jun,
The placing of wires underground VIII
begin as soon as the sub-stauoh Is 0oi''
pleted there. .-...,,
Among other more important tahsaO-
tions was the conveyance by the hlllen
Construction Company TO the SpIlhsHe'"
Gardens Qnc) of l,02l lots south Oh ''e
NIerrick Road and Farmers avenue anu
between the Montauk and Far Rockaway
divisions of the Long Island Railroad a.
Snringaeld. subject 10 mortgage VI
5000 600. This property, together WIZ,
eiehtv-seven lots which were cOhNe! :"
70 the same company by James ". NON
man. and which adjoins the larger u", -
will be placed on the market lnlileuldte'S
Executors of the estate of Jane ,. S'ul
eis conveyed TO the New YORK Coi'So'.
dated card Company OF Mahhal'ai' &"
rJot having a frontage OF 1S5 leet y"
RopeliA avenue. Long Island CITY Upon
the completion Of the necessary quarters
the company will move considerao'e
I,ortion of its business there from u.s.
present headquarters, at NO. - "es'
18th street. o,,oo,,s in
the last week totalling more thah S-'O'V'Y
IN estimated cost. in a mid-suii'ii'0.
ner,od when conditions are usually nv
as active as in more brisk seasons Vi 'i'o
- the outlook for the fall Is more
.,o,,raeine than ever before in the MS
co., ~ the bureau in early August. Inc
14o appucations represent an estii'ia''N
cost OF s3l9.l77, there being slXty-'h'
on,1,cations for new buildings, of an esu-
,,,ated cost of S25,06O; twenty-seven appii-
cations for alterations, of an es'iii'at W
cost of SlO.567. and fifty applications 10.
plumbing permits. OF an es'i''i@''0
of $63.5OO. ma
More permits were obtained for pro
iect which in the construction OF ou''ur
irgs alone will represent an ouua! Vi
s. 900 COO-the extensive Industrial pIahl u
The General Vehicle Company on borue"
o,enue from Review 10 Bradley avenues
=, ror- Island City. Six units, each lVVA
sno feet and six stories high, complete!
Nrenroof. are now nearing coihpie'o'
,s on indication of the magnitude OF tho
,,.o~u there will be an entire floor space
% 5no O,0 square feet. and the plant "heh
oor,Dleted will give employment TO o'VV'
u.orkmen. The company Will engage III
the manufacture of motor driven cum
mercial vehicles. .,.o,
O,a of the permits is for moVihe
,icture theatre and another for teh''iS
clubhouse. John Holly secured permit
g. ,be erection Of moving picture the-
~ az NeWtown and Van Alst avenues
w. Island City, to cost Sll2'Wo' Inc
west Side Tennis Club Will buiid 49,
c,ubhouse at Forest Hills. Inc puliuiiis
In no erected on a knoll on the ten-acre
-, recentlv acquired by the CLUB at
st ~ $50 600 Upon completion OF the
work planned the club VIII be one Oh '"'
nnest equipped in this country
In the character of buildings the frame
.,r,cture continues to predominant
w scbwagerl, will expend s24,Cco in ouiio-
,rp two and a half frame dwellings, a.
prosnect and Toledo avenues Elmhurs'.
Concetta Marrariello will build huiiloe'
30 two story dwellings at Union RAJ .,5
south Of Chestnut street, Rlchmoho nm
q, cost of $1,000. The Baisley L@Ae
realty Company will erect over ao1e''
Two and a half story dwellings on Beat,
rice street east Of Baisley avenue anu
Mayer street east Of the Rockaway koau'
Jamaica. at cost of $21O each' H.
.1Tnls will erect a number of two story
dwellings on Mills street. east OF sherman an
street Morris Park, at cost oil WV
each.
I, the Corona section building opera
lions are particularly lively Thompson
BROTHERS will erect there NUMBER Vi
brick stores and dwellings. two stories,
on National avenue and Poplar street street
at a cost Of $3.50 each and three STORY
stores and dwellings on Jackson avenue