New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
1000 Home Sites i'm Queens
Big City To Be Auctioned
jamaica Realty in Unique Location, Amid Series
Of Terraces and Hills,' Astounding in Natural
Charms, Within Easy Reach of Transit Service

The biggest lot sale so far this year
will be held on Saturday, June 12, and
on the following Monday, when the
MataWok Land Company will dispose
at auction of 1000 lots, at what is
known as Jamaica Estates, in the Hill
section Of Jamaica. The sale will be
held on the premises at l p m, under
the direction of Joseph P Day
The lots to be sold lie east of Mid
land Parkway and Tryor Road with
frontages in Hillside Avenue, Grand
Central Parkway, Union Turnpike,
Midland Parkway, Hollinswood Ave
nue., and all the many roads and ave
nues lying between these boundaries.
Midland Parkway is the main en-
trance to the Jamaica Estates, and all
Of the property to be sold lies east of
that 120- foot wide thoroughfare. The
lots are widely distributed over all
rise from Hillside Avenue, north to
Union Turnpike. IIolliswood Ave
nue. is the eastern boundary Of the
section in which lots are located.
Convenient to Transit Service
From Hillside Avenue, at Midland
Parkway, it is only a comfortable walk
to the B. R. 7 elevated and subway
station in Fulton Street, or the Hill
side (Jamaica) station of the L. I. Il.
R. From Hillside and Holiswood
Avenue it is q short walk to the L.
|. K. R. station ct Hollis.
Hillside Avenue is the main auto
mobile route through Queens to Mas
sau and Suffolk Counties. The trolley
haitian, Brooklyn, Long Island City
Flushing. Hampstead and Mineola, all
center in the station and business sec
ton of Jamaica which lies south and
west Of Jamaica estates. Commenting
on the sale Mr.. Day said yesterday:
The present owners Ito whom these
lots reverted in foreclosure proceed
ingS) deal exclusively in acreage prop
erty and have no facilities for the
marketing of lots by private sale
Hence this extraordinary opportunity
is presented to home seekers, specu-
lators and investors, to obtain these
lots at bargain prices. This is the
proverbial opportunity of lifetime.'
NO such New York City property
will ever again be disposed Of at auc-
tion, for the simple reason that ma
ture has not provided another such
beautiful and accessible tract avail
able within the limits of the great
city
A Place of Natural Charm
"Naturc has done for Jamaica es
tates what no landscape architect could
ever do. Nowhere else within the
same distance from the center of Man
haitian will be found such diversity of
rolling wooded hills and beautiful ra-
vines. To this must be added the work
done by the former owners of this
attractive residential park and high
land oasis.
Every part of the Jamaica Estates
property lies on what is known as the
backbone Of Long Island The natural
drainage is north toward Long Island
Sound, south toward the Atlantic
Ocean. The elevation is such that to
the south the ocean can be seen, and
to the north, Long Island Sound and the
hills of Westchester County.
Jamaica has now a resident popula.
tion Of 10000 also many fine churches,
schools. public buildings, theaters and
shops, beautiful streets and all the ad-
vantages that go to make living con-
venient and comfortable
"As the running time to Jamaica from
the Pennsylvania station, or from Flat
bush Avenue, Brooklyn, is only eighteen
minutes, and as there are several hun
dred trains daily, in addition to the
B. Z. T. elevated service at a scent
fare, this residential park and the
forthcoming sale should appeal espe-
cialy to the family of moderate means
and to the student of real estate who
knows OF the fortunes made in Bronx
and Brooklyn real estate since the
operation of improved transit facilities
and coincident with the influx of add ed
population.
Owing to the depressed market con-
ditions Of to-day the prices these lots
are expected to bring at the forthcom.