The sun., 1919-05-11
10 AUCTION CHOICE
LOTS AT ELMHURST
pere Johnson, Jr. Co. Will Of
fer Simonson Holdings for
Sale June z.

Several purchases recently made of
large blocks OF lots in the Queens Boule-
ward section OF Long Island City are I'M
doubtedly forerunners of early activity
IN apartment house building, but the
prospective home builder and the inves-
tor desiring property having a future"
must go trihe further than Long ISL
and City to obtain lots at a price which
he can afford to pay for more modest
apartments. single or two family house
operations.
OF immediate interest. therefore, not
pnly TO professional builders, but also TO
overwhelmed rentpayers, small investors
ana prospective home builders, is the an
nouncement that the Jere johnson Jr.
Company. auctioneers. are to offer at an
executors sale on Saturday, June Z, the
xlS lots, constituting the holdings OF the
late #. De Haas Simonson, at Elmhurst,
In the Second ward OF the Borough of
Queens The sale will be held on the
premises at p. NJ. Some OF the lots are
OF extra large size, having plenty of
room Tor garage or city garden others
are located NJ the junction Of important
tnoroughfares and have potential values
that will appeal to SPECTATORS.
OF the greatest Importance, however,
- the fact that many of the lots to be
sold front directly on the 200 foot wide
uueens Boulevard. which is the route
% the fast service electric surface line
operating between Fffty-ninth street and
second avenue, Manhattan, via the
greensboro Bridge. to Jamaica. Others
tront on Grand street, Broadway, which
" the business district of the Newtown
section OF Elmhurst and the Second ward
OF Queens. Grand street is also the
route of the Il. r T. trolley from Man
haitian avenue. Brooklyn, to Corona and
crushing, and is an eighty foot wide
tnoroughfare. North of the Queens
boulevard, Grand street Is known as
broadway. The distance from this point
70 the Elmhurst station on the north
side division OF the l.. l. r. r Is about
1900 feet.
From Grand street and Van Kleeck
place. the westerly boundary of the
Simonson property. the distance to the
Srand street station on the main line
OF the Long Island Railroad is only 500
rect A little more than a dozen blocks
from the property to be sold Is the
Twenty-ifth street station of the dual
subway system. The Interborough SUBJ
way the Brooklyn Rapid Transit SUBJ
way and the Manhattan elevated trains
run direct to Forty-second and Fifty
nin.h streets, Manhattan, from which
points connections with all parts of
Manhattan. Brooklyn and The Bronx
are made for a single five cent fare.
Every lot situated within the bounds
81 the four blocks lying between Van
h.eeck place and the junction of Grand
street, Broadway. and Queens Boulo-
ward has the distinct advantage of being
located within a few feet from the cleo
uic transit lines that operate in the
Queens Boulevard and Grand street
North Of the boulevard the remaining
lots occupy practically all Of the three
DOCKS fronting on Queens Boulevard
petween st James street and Van Loon
pace, at distance of from one TO
three blocks Of Broadway, Grand street
ana the single block fronting on Maurice
avenue. seventy foot diagonal thor
oughfare from St. James street to Foyer
street
Many of the lots In tbs moro north
eriy section run through from Queens
Boulevard TO Maurice avenue and from
maurice avenue to ST. James place.
some Few In the more northerly zone
extend through from the Queens Boule-
Varo 10 Grand street and have froutages
on two trolley line thoroughfares.
from the earliest days the centre OF
HE In old Newtown has been at or
adjacent TO broadway. Grand street and
the Queens Boulevard. Here there are
churches. fine old residences. stores and
the local fire house. The Newtown
Register, newspaper which has been
M existence many years. has its home
IN broadway just north of the boule-
ward.
1t is In this location that the Simon
son property narrows down to a finely
located junction point parcel known as
lot 14s, which juts out into the omen
space formed by the intersection Of
Queens Boulevard, Grand street and
broadway. The situation, here is quite
similar TO that of any junction point in
siahhattan along the line of Broadway
as, Tor instance. at Union Square, Madi-
son Square. Greeley Square, Times
Square or Columbia Circle, wnsre Broad
way Is crossed by Fifth, Sixth. Seventh
or Eighth avenue
Some of the most valuable properties
In Manhattan are to be found to-day at
these junction points, and vet compare
lively few years have elapsed since lots
IN these localities were selling for a few
hundred or a few thousand dollars
west OF Grand street and Broadway the
simonson property gradually widens
out at Van Loom Goldsmith and Simon
son streets and Van Kleeck place, until
ht It's westerly boundary the block is
more than 500 feet long between Grand
street and Queens Boulevard.
Between Queens Boulevard and Natl
rice avenue the street layout is such
that the largest frontage is on Broad
way, from tho Queens Boulevard to
Maurice avenue and the junction at
point about opposite the Simonson
Place where large plaza Is formed
from the intersection of Queens Boule-
ward and Maurice avenue with ST.
James Place and Codwise Place. This
plaza has all the characteristics OF a
rev five points" and Is big with poten-
tialitieA
Seldom has property been offered at