New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15

claim against the property, or otner-
wise the tax lien will likely be SOLD.
The unpaid taxes forming the tax
liens TO be sold became liens and were
due and payable prior to March 10.
Since that date scores OF persons nave
settled their accounts with the city, yet
their names may still be found on me
lists of delinquent payers OF taxes II
takes time to prepare the list, whlch Is
issued some weeks before the date OF
the sale. Therefore, unless you p"id
carly enough 10 have your Indebtedness
erased from the list before it got to
the printers, you are down IN black ana
white for whatever sums you owed.
Numerous properties are on this tax
lion list because the owners OF the par
cells know nothing about the assess
ments. or some one who they intrusted
70 square their indebtedness 70 the city
was very careless about the matter and
overlooked a large or small tax item
which every month has become pig
ger lien against the property. some
times an owner, in computing the IN
terest due on his taxes, makes an error
and the check he sends to the receiver
of taxes is a few dollars less than the
amount due. The shortage remains on
the city books, growing bigger and pig
ger as a lien against the property, until
the mistake may prove to be a very
costly one. Often in buying property
a LAWYER, in searching title, fails to IN
ouire if any assessments have Deen
levied on the premises and II they are
unpaid. and eventually his client has a
large sum TO pay for this oversight
Occasions have arisen when TINS over
sight has caused the buyer to lose his
property through foreclosure proceed
ings. -.
S2O35 for back water rents on his me
home at SIS Fifth Avenue. The water
rent. which is now a lien, was levied
in 1910. RYAN did not own the house
at that time, and the debt Is handed
down TO him from prior ownership OF
the premises. Nevertheless he Is now
called upon to square the matter. Of
course, he would have settled the IN
debtedness long ago If the city mad
called his attention 10 II. some day
the city will probably have debt col
lectors who call on owners and IN
form, them about unpaid taxes. Men
Of means usually employ er uent lee-
al talent 10 attend to their realty al
fairs, and If the watchful eye Of paid
legal servants sometimes fails 20 see
an old. neglected city debt against a
certain piece of property, owners OF
little means are likely 20 be bothered
much more so with these overlooked
perpleXing tax liens. .o. l..
The city would like to get $14.26 due
on a plot on the south side of Sixty
eighth Street, between Avenue ana
First Avenue. John d. Crimmlns IS
on the books of the city as being the
cwner of the property. Maybe Mr.
Crimmins is not now the owner. And
he may never nave owned the prop
erty. but as far as the city is con
cerned he is the owner of record and
the lien is charged against him.
The lien is for an unpaid assess
ment fer regulating Exterior Street
from Sixtv-fourth to Eighty-frst
Street. This assessment was confirmed
on October %, 1911. Many other per
sons seem TO be unaware of this as
sessment. Large property owners who
have sites in the upper East Side sec
tions near the waterfront seldom VISIT
the East Side unless they live near BY
and consequently most of them do not
know what a vast amount of work the
city mas been doing on Exterior Street
a thoroughfare particularly designed
to help bring about an expansion OF
the commercial side of the neighbor-
hood
On the debtors side Of the city
ledger is the name of Mrs. Finley j
Shepard. She is on the books as owing
S14.1O for a water levy on the fine
apartment house of which she is the
owner of record in Central Park South,
between Seventh ay. and Columbus
Circle. The house is appraised by the
city tax experts at $4,000. A tax lien
is first lien-that is, If there are sew
eral or more debts against parcel OF
real estate the city's claims must first
be paid.
On the list are also some properties
in the very heart of the theatrical
centre of the town. One of these prop
critics is in the block bounded by 47th
and 4Sth SITS, Seventh av. and Broad
way, and the owner of record is John
Murtha Part of a regular tax against
the property is due, besides S27.10 in
water rents.
Michael A. Rofrano, ex-Deputy Street
Cleaning Commissioner, is the record
ed owner Of a tenement house in
Cherry st.. valued at $4,000, agains,
which there is lien of 50. II was
levied in 1910.