New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-05

large plots into blocks. Thus the num-
Der Of parcels in Queens has increas 4
in seven years by more than one-thirf.
and in Brooklyn by $4,000 parcels. 7 @
total number of parcels for 1914 3
545,094. On the average each dcpU v
assesses about 5000 parcels. The 60 ,
a parcel for assessing is only 81. Tho
total assessed valuation Of the real %
q, tate in the city for 1914. includir (
/ the real estate of corporations and 81 e
/ cial franchises, is ss,049, s59.9l2. TIC
/ total assessed real estate valuation N
Z sixteen states, with North Dakota on
the north and Texas on the south, AMI
extending 10 the Pacific. but not In
/ GLIDING California. is 2,66s .tsl.
The report of the Tax Board is in
part as follows:
When the whole country and the CT p
OF New York arc prosperous. when "a
ues are rising, the Tax DEPARTING
hears few complaints OF oyersSscs
ment, but when business is dull. ~
| for one cause or another values reced
! complaints Of oyerasscssment must =
tho nature of the case be frequent. SUI
complaints were frequent TOR the a
scssment OF 1914. The increase IN ih'
assessed value OF real estate in the q ,
as a whole was far less than the amour
added by the erection of new building
because in various sections old bull
ings had become still more obsolci
and in certain sections even the !sn
receded in value.
The Tax Department has cnd,avoro
10 meet these changing conditions. az
in that effort, in the Borough OF Ma
haitian, IL has decreased certain di
tricts and increased others. In q.
small territory between Blocker A.
14th streets, Sixth and Third avenue
there was a reduction Of s5.500.00o. r.
tween 14th and 40th SITS, Sixth AZ
Seventh avs. and between lttn 81
e6th SITS. Fifth and Sixth avs, there
was reduction of s9,5000 900. On IN,
upper East Side, between Park az
Lenox avs, llSth and li6th SITS, th'
decrease was S3,25O,OO0.
{ II all the districts had been soir :
b backward there would have been no ~
crease in the assessed valuation IN Ne y
/ York at all. but as q matter OF fac
some districts did not go back. nei
was encouragement in the territory be
tween 40th and seth SITS. Between Sist0
and Ninth avs. the increase was near
{ 5000 900. and between Third and SIKH
avs. the increase WIS ufftis T~'sNUNf'N
Of which over si2.o00.000 was an n
crease for improvements. North g
l55th 81. there was goodly amount
new buildings. and the aggregate "
crease was $l4 100000.
/ None of the other boroughs SHOVE
any territory in which there was sue
occasion for n reduction Of assessmcn'
as those sections OF Manhattan tAs
have been described.
In the Borough OF The Bronx ther'
was only one section that showed
decrease, and that was very slight.
two sections there was good, sur
stantial increase, due 10 the ereetio'
o. new buildings. Both Section 10 an
/ Section IL showed an increase for new
buildings of over $5.oo0.oo0. In othe'
sections the changes were compare
lively slight.
B In Brooklyn some Of the old parts o
the borough declined. and most OF tn
outlying sections showed some gain
chiefly due to the erection OF new build
ings. The net increase for the Who'll
borough was only little over Si2.0oo,
900, which is Q very small percentage