The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
MORE LONG BEACH
LOTS TO Be SOLD
J.P. Day Will Conduct Another
Auction on Labor Day and
Preceding Saturday.

Eleven hundred lots and seventy
bungalows at Long Beach, L. l., are to
be sold at public auction to the highest
bidders on Saturday. August 80, and on
Labor Day. Monday. September 1. by
Joseph p. Day. auctioneer. This will
be the second big sale of Long Beach
real estate conducted this year by the
same auctioneer.
The first sale was held Saturday, July
10, during few hours of the stormiest
weather this section had witnessed In
many years. That sale was a supreme
test of the 1919 lot auction market. ana
despite the bad weather every lot was
sold, although the prices obtained
ranged far below those the bidders
might have been expected to pay had
the day been a fair one and had the
usual crowd been present at Long
Beach. Over 1900 persons attended the
sale, and the crowd stuck until the last
lot had been knocked down to the high
est bidder. A total Of 1895 lots were
sold.
The forthcoming sale of 100 lots IL
to liquidate the holdings of the Estates
OF Long Beach, the original developer
OF New York city's popular ocean front
resort and all year residence section.
VINO nave expended over S15, 1000 900 on
improvements in building miles OF
boardwalk, artistic homes, &C.
The bungalows to be offered are IN
the rapidly growing west end section.
The lots to be sold are in practically all
parts of Long Beach proper, while a
large number are directly on the board
walk.
The tremendous increase annually IN
the great number OF automobiles that 20
to Long Beach by way of the Merrick
road and the all together inadequate
bridge over Hampstead Bay and that
park In practically all the avenues and
boulevards that parallel the boardwalk
as well as in the side streets that lead
to the ocean front is an indication OF
the growing popularity of Long Beach.
The average number recently on SAT-
urdays and Sundays at one time has
been about 5000. This concentration
of automobile traffic at the beach has
created number of new centres along
the boardwalk and the monopoly for
merly held by the location OF which the
Nassau Hotel is the centre has been
Broken by the extension OF the parking
space TO distance OF a mile or more
east and west of that point and about
one-fourth of a mile inland. toward the
railroad station and business centre
where the space set aside for the park
ing OF automobiles has also been consid-
erably enlarged.
Because OF this enormous increase In
automobile traff1c and the rapidity with
which new houses. bungalows ana other
buildings have been erected, a strong
demand has arisen for the earliest pos
sible construction of a bridge about 200
feet wide, to be constructed from the
mainland across Hampstead Bay to the
foot OF ong Beach Boulevard. which rs
located several blocks east OF the looa-
tion OF the bridge and the present
bridge. The Nassau county and Hemp
stead officials realize the Importance OF
constructing this bridge at the earliest
possible moment and It is said that IA
vorable action In the matter will be
taken soon. This would not eliminate
the present bridge which. however, IS so
inadequate that IL will haze to be en-
larged greatly to accommodate the traI-
flc that flows into ong Beach from the
MerriclS road
There is also to be considered the e.
feet upon the future OF ong Beach Of the
proposal made recently to create city
Of the first class from the unihcation OF
| the south shore towns close by on the
| mainland. including Rockville Centre
Freeport, Lynbrook. Baldwtns, Ocean
side and East Rockaway