New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
Property at Belle Harbor
Will Be Sold Satur-
day Next.
LAND APPROACHED BY
IMPROVED AVENUES
Riparian Rights Go with the
Purchase of Sites, Comment
of AuctiOneer.


ues in the great cities of the world in
variably have been recorded in trans
actions affecting the sale and rental
of properties located in the financial
and exclusive residential and retail
shoppinC districts, so in the SUBURBAN
areas of these same influential centres
the highest prices are obtained alohg
the ocean front and inland amongst
the hills.
The explanation OF this principle OF
land values is that the trend of the
population is along the lines CT least
resistance toward the choicest location,
or such a location as the purse can
afford. The range of choice from the
roint of view of the resident OF New
York is wide, but in the case of ocean
frontage the supply is limited and the
demand constantly increasing.
Except for the ocean frontage al
Coney Island, Brighton and Manhattan
beaches, Long Reach and IN me ROCK
away district there is no other source
of suprly within the easy communl-
cative zone except within the one TO
five hour radius along the New Jersey
seaboard. from the Atlantic Highlands
20 the distant Atlantic City and Cape
May.
visible supply of New York City ocean
frontage has not long ago been alb
sorbed and most highly developed on
an economic basis by the 7,5OO.OOO pop
ulation within the metropolitan area,
for this sea-washed city eXpanse mas
advantages Of location and accesslollity
not possessed by the more distant re-
sorts. ....
building. home buying, amusement and
speculative interest first to have taken
advantage of the opportunities so very
closo al hand instead of searching for
and capitalizing those that are at
Ear greater distance is one OF the mys-
teries of the realty world.
While shore front lots at Coney ISL
and and nearby have been allowed 70
Tnger behind at from $4,000 to SZo'-
600 a lot, at Long Beach, a compare.
lively new territory and the mecca Oh
the citv's summer population. shore
Sror+ lois are in the infancy of their
more intrusive development, and even
today can be had at from $4,000 TO
$4,000 each. Asbury Park is minla-
fnre Atlantic City, and Boardwalk val
nos there have risen to levels only sec
ond to those recorded at the more
southerly resorts.
But there is an area much closer W
New York, with almost continuous eIec-
tric train service and an overcoming
nonulation cared for and catered TO Oy
the city government, which, IN com
parison with the exorbltant VaIues
ruoted elsewhere, is absurdly cheap,
dSnociaT1v when it is considered that
tho section referred 20 has all the pos
sibilities of all-year occupation and is
tho scene of a double renting season.
- :, tho summer and another In the
This neglected and overlooked sec
.;or nj the Borough of Queens and the
citv nroper is that patr of the long
and narrow Rockaway peninsula ana
including Belle Harbor Neponslt ana
Telewana Park, owned by New 1orK
City. ..;o,
where there are comparatively few lots'
,bo Atlantic Ocean is the southerly
boundarv and Jamaica Bay the north
crlv Rockaway Point, the extreme
westerly tin of this water-washed land,
divides the waters of the ocean and
nav and points directly toward Man
haitian Reach and Coney Island. ne
Long Island Railroad has its terminus
AT Rockaway Park, ten minutes walk
and two minutes trolley car ride from
the entrance to Belle Haroor, at beach
124th st. Beach 14lst ST. makes the
dividing line between Belle Harbor ana
Venonsit. at which point the Newport
avI Rockaway Park station, connection
trolley line turns south IN AdlroncacK
boulevard, then proceeds northward
through Neponsit to the new city (lele-
wana) park. -.
The distance from the ocean front
ace 10 Beach Channel Drive, on the
Jamaica Bay frontage on Belle HarooI'
;s four blocks, two of which lie north
and south Of the trolley line IN New
port Avenue I'LL. ..oo.
at the last street in Rockaway Park
at the back gateway of Belle HarDor'
Rockaway Park ocean front values are
stated 10 be $4,000 TO $1,000 lot'
inst about what boardwalk lots at At
lantic City, between Connecticut ana
Florida avenues, are estimated TO be
worth a front foot 800
The wholly primitive 4,OOO feet OF
beach and ocean frontage, comprising
ga lots. 20 by 100 feet each, to the
lyost of Rockaway Park. represents the
southerly portion of the Belle Harbor
domain and is the only extensive 'front.'
age on the Rockaway coast that never
in the history of mankind has been
offered to individual home site buyers
and builders. Here there is no board
walk only mile after mile OF SANDY
beach approached by way of seventeen
highly developed and improved ave
nues, and having a background OF some
$50 or more summer and all-year
houses. costing each all the way from
$4,000 70 $4,000 TO erect.
What these lots, with riparian rights,
will bring, when you can build private
residences, hotels and boarding houses.
remains to be decided by the bidders
at the public auction sale to be held by
Joseph F. Day. auctiOneer, on the prem
ises, rain or shine. The sale will begin
next Saturday afternoon at o'clock,
and 70 be resumed on the following
Monday.
In addition. the same sale will dis
pose Of 445 other lots. scattered about
between the ocean and the bav in sew
eral Of the choicest of the Belle Harbor
\ residential avenues, in blocks of two
M 10 eleven lots and of the severa, blocks
~ Of lots in the Immediate vicinage of
the Belle Harbor Yacht Club and dock.
and in the more westerly section. be-
tween Jamaica Bay Beach Channel
Drivc) and Cranston Avenue lBayside
Drive). The restrictions on these lat
ter lots will permit the erection Of
hotels, boarding houses, etc.
Belle HarbOr IS free from assess
ments, as all the physical improvements
ave been paid for. There are sewers,
water, gas, electric, telephone service,
police and fire protection, free mail de-
y livery, garbage and ash removal,
schools, churches, etc.
In speaking yesterday OF the ap-
preaching CLOSING out sale" Of the 6i9
-. g. - offered Mr. DaV said: