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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
.EARly BUILDING
AND ITS RESULTS
Philadelphia Builders Exchange
Urges a Longer Season and
Sees Rsadjustment

The Philadelphia Builders Tx
change. OF which the Joseph s. Ham
ilton Co. OF this city IL n member. has
published a pamphlet entitled Build
ing Trade Conditions Undermine In
'dustrial Stability" which. in a CON
densed form. pictures conditions ex-
isting in the building trade. and makes
recommendations as To how these
conditions can lac improved.
The pamphlet states that seasonal
unemployment would reduce basic
labor rates and better condition..
From April TO December. 70 IL point
ed out. there in 100 per cent employ
ment for mechanics i'm the building
trades. This means shortage in many
trades. Wages go up. employers pay
bonuses. work IL delayed. tobs have
little value. efficiency suffers and
costs mount.
From December to April. unemploy-
ment approximates 40 TO 80 per cent
Men want work Efficiency rises. but
basis wages are held AT a level fixed
through "A recognition Of this condi
ton Of seasonal employment. Me
Chani,s demand wage for working
days that averages periods of en-
forced idlenoss. Material costs follow
the same course. Summer activities all
surb manufacturing capacity. Conges
transportation. delay deliveries, stoI
work. advance prices and pyrami,
costs.
Basic labor rates should bc reduced
. Il a
minished. the pamphlet says. Nm eN
: tended construction period would re
LEV. material markets and transpor
/ tation. Disturbed ACTIVITY would 70
+ lievc strain ON supervisory forces
Costs would fan.
Tho pamphlet states: We need GO
operation. forethought. and planning
! II YOU contemplate building or alter
I atoms start new construction Marcl
first instead OF April. May or June
| Plan inside work 10 employ labor II
period Of lowest normal demand. Re
lieve industry by contracting for n
alteration and repair work undo
cover so that labor demand will IA
on period OF lowest general employ
ment. Use your influence 10 star
public. non-speculative and institu
,ional work NJ a period when II vi
make smallest deman nd on aVailabl
labor and material supply.
Insist that architects plan you
work 50 that actual construction nee
not he done under pressure. Do nc
demand early completion when labo
is obtainable only on payment {
bonuses or advanced wages. You
gain is only temporary: the commur
i,y suffers and you suffer with IT,
This Will reduce owners cost q
all work at all times: help the con-
b munity obviste delays; stabilize II
dustry and relieve unemployment
Unavoidable winter costs average b,
4 per cent. Money provided for built
ing starts earning only on compile
ton
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
Business News of Wilmington

Statements by French sugar manu-
facturers that their output is lower
than estimates are deliberately false.
declares the Federal Sugar REFINING
Company. In Belgium and Germany
the crops are fully up TO estimates. and
any statements 10 the contrary In this
country are propaganda.
Henry Clews a. Co. OF New York.
say: The fresh dividend announce
ments which put In an appearance
every now and then afrord conclusivo
evidence that most companies are IN
n strong position. This will prove n
factor In the long run. and would
exert greater influence row were II
not for tho unfortunate political
situation"
For four consecutive months pig
| iron production has continued up
ward. and has now reached the high.
! est level In two years. or since No.
vember. 1920. output IL now 205 pei
cent above the midsummer peak
which was attained in June. just be.
fore many furnaces were forced q,
curtail operations as a result Of th'
coal strike. steel ingot production II
October was . per cent above tn
high point OF June.
Samuel Insult. president % IN,
Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company
OF Chicago. says: Gas industry. ~
stead Of declining. as many predicted
appears 10 he entering second. vigor
oue. young manhood" He recalls tha
gas stocks broke wildly forty-fou
years ago on Edison's successful ex
perlmsnts with electric illumination
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
|P.R.R. EMPLOYEES
AS STOCKHOLDERS
vics-Presidsnt Atterbury Says
Management 10 Considering
Instalmsnt Plan.

Answering the inquiry of Penn
eylyvn.a Railroad employe who sug-
gcs,ed that there were many persons
In tho employ OF the company who
would like to inves, in d,s shares.
Vice-President w. w. Atterbury
writes In part 40 follows:
ut will interest you-and undoubt-
ci,y many other employees who have
raised the rame aue-'lon--to krow
that this matter - now being care
fully considered by our direction. and
officers Such n plan rs YOU have In
mind FOR y system as large ~ the
Pennsylvania involves many 3mport-
ant considerations. We have given q
great deal of thought 20 II. but "a yet
no sat sfactory plan has been develop
ed.
Meanwhile. although tho company
itrsf hns no. adopted an inetallment
plan of ceiling stock 10 employees, II
- a comparatively easy matter for
an cmploye who ~ thrifty 20 buy
stock on that basis. I quite agree with
you that 81 ~ an excellent thing for
an omploye to own securities Qf the
company that employs him. II is good
Ati nANi I'l'FHftAe NJ ff's' ~ - 49,
| company.
THE stock OF the penrsy1van!
| railroad ~ owned by nearly 10000
| pcrons. II n probable that many thou
sands a. the1n ere employees who have
purchased 70 AZ the market pric,
| through brokers or through the Nh
| ,ual Beneficial Association Of Penn
| syivaula Railroad Employees. Arso.
cations of Veteran Employees and 9th
er sruupe.
Your letter is dated from philade.'
| phla. You would ind without Difficult
| ~ n number OF reputable bankers o.
| brokers In this city who would heir
| You - buy Pennsylvania stock on ~
easy payment plan. " personal eecuri
! Is were required YOU would. am sure
! have no difficulty getting help on tina
score from an officer Of the company
| Another simple means u right n
| Your hand. The Mutual Beneficial
Association has bought for employs
| many thousands 81 shares 81 Penn
sylvania stock, nearly all Of which
| was Iald for by tho employees Il
| monthly instailments Of s. per share
TIE employees e tho Middle Division
| have just completed pool ~ So
shares 60 10 bought through the "
u. \. on the monthly payment basis.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
$4,000 DISTRIBUTED.
Among the Members Of the New tas'
tIe Leather Christmas Clubs.

Employees Of the New Castle Leather
Company, who We're membas ~ the
Christmas Club Of this plant. received
cheer in the form Of money
which they had laid By each month
during the year for this purpose. There
were 10 employees. among whnnn So
600 was distributed. There were Others
:. no Joined the club just year ago
but who. through misfortune or neces-
s!ty were competed 20 withdraw their
savings before the end OF the year.
The officers Of the Christmas fund
administered it's affairs 50 successfully
hat the members were able 20 profit
through interest paid them al the rate
Of . per cent per annum.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
Service. a. a national organization.

Service. a. a national organization.
keeps I'm touch with the general situa-
ton In every part Of the country. Its
points Of contact. however. are neces-
sariiy limited by the smallness OF its
appropriations. and for this name rea-
son there can be very little educa
tionai work done along the line OF en-
couraging secondary employment. The
national employment service should
be n clearing house and an agency for
the dissemination Of not only informa-
ton but OF constructive suggestion.
along the lines which l have indi-
Gated
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-18
Father Scyerino Goes South.

Rev. James V. SevePino. after spend
ing a few days with his family In
WLmi gton, has gone 20 New Orleans
where he will become assistant pastor
OF 81. Peters II. q. Church. Before
leaving for New Orleans. Father Sever
mo- was s,1tloned at Clayton. at the
co,osed boys school.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
BUSINESS CARDS
Diamonds, Jewelry, Ete.

Merchants g. Manufacturers Exchange o.
of N Y. $50 Lex. ave. Tel. Wand. 1900
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

Offices at 200 Madison Avenue to G. p.
Elliott, and to Lockwood, Bracket Co.,
Of Boston, Mass, and Offices in The
Canadian Pacific Building, Madison
Avenue, Forty-third to Forty-fourth
Streets, to the Credit Security Com
pany; Offices at Ill West Seventy
second Street to Dir. B. G. Fairchild; !;
and Offices in the new Hecksehcr
Building, Fifth Avenue ard Fifty
seventh Street, TO A. f. Neal, and
Offices in the National City Building
Forty-second Street and Madison Ave.
nue., to the Turnpike Golf Club.
Cross x Bfown Company leased
space in the Fisk Building. Broadway
and Fifty-seventh Street, to Charles
s. Huntlsy, Sidney l.. Gross, Max Rab-
inof, Process Chemicals, Inc, to Cliff
ford b. Levering and to David f. Ken
nedy, Inc; also space at 245 West
Fifty-fifth Street to r. A. Wathen q
Co., Inc.
M. Rosenthal Company leased the
tenth floor at 159-163 West Twenty
fifth Street, to Seidman & Jacoby.
The Haggstrom Callen Co. leased the
store at the southwest corner of Am
sterdam Avenue and Sixty-seventh
Street to Albert Stern for two years.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

the use of millions Of cubic feet an
naally. Such sliding scale rates have
been IN force many years in all other
large industrial eenters, but never be-
fore in greater New York. The effect
viii be an annual saving Of hundreds
OF thousands of dollars TO hotels and
large manufacturing plants. Further
more the commission has made the
reduction available to large users
without throwing the burden on small
users. In fact, small users have also
been given a material cut in gas rates.
and feel that on the whole the sched-
ale ordered should prove uniformly
satisfactory to all classes Of users and
TO the gas companies also"
Robert A. Carter. vice.president of
{he consolidated Gas Company, said
yesterday:
Existing conditions in cost Of mate
rial and labor do not warrant the re-.
duction prescribed. The engineers of
tae commission say they found the cost
OF producing gas by British thermal
unit standard would result ultimately
"a reduction of manufacturing cost
approximating between s. and 6 cents
per 1000 feet of gas sold.
1T viii, of course, be impossible for
the companies to realize any such
economy for a considerable time to
come. They cannot begin Immediately
furnishing gas of 537 B. T. u, as pro-
vided in the new shndard. This will
have to be realized by steps covering
a period of many months. In the
mean time there will have to be such
adjustment of gas consuming appli-
aflces as to assure maintenance Of un-
impaired service and efficient utiliza-
tion of gas.
Consolidated engineers estimate
services of 400 additional employees
will be required to make adjustments
The cost TO Consolidated alone will be
between 100000 and 100000. A fair
estimate of cost to all gas companies
affected will be between 100000 and
S700,0o0. The commissions new rate
takes no account of this expense. Ii
assumes the economies it anticipates 9
will be realized at one.
Tho consumer is certain to benefit
substantially in quality as we'll as In
price of gas under the new standard
The best service this company was
able TO render under the old standard
was inferior to that which will be pos
slble under the new one. Using a 537
B. I. U. with domestic heating and
cooking appliances adjusted the per-
centage of efficiency is about 80 per
cent, while with a twenty-five candle
power. gas the efficiency cannot be
brought above 40 per cent"
The Brooklyn Union Gas Company
will concur in general" with the re-.
duction of 10 cents a 1000, accordinp
to Henry E. MCGOWAN, secretary of the
company.
Corporation Counsel O'Brien sent a
long letter to Mayor Hylan last night
IN which ne criticized the gas rate re-
dnctlon. Mr. O'Brien's letter repeated
charges contained in the Mayor's teIeN
phonic talk with Secretary Sinnott
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Classified Advertisements
LOST. FOUND AND REWARD

LOST-~On evening OF August 81 saba
neckpiece, left in taxi bstween i2t Wes;
45th and Fifth ave. Reward. Telephone
Murray Hill $500.
b..
LOST---A iredAle lnrrc SnaIn .rna ris..
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Women Share in Trading
OF East Side Tenememts
Most of the Buying Reported
Yesterday Concerns Cheaper
Class OF Honses

Anna kodak and Anna siayik bought
the six-story tenement with stores ne
346 East Seventy Street, 2sx
1922.
Ralph Russo sold 3i5 East 11sth
Street, four-story single Eat, Is.sx
100, for o. Colasuonno 20 +. Di paola.
David Zweben sold to Beka Stein tho
fve-story house at I39 East Sixteenth
Street, 25x92
Frank Greenbcrg resoId to Katie Sill
verman the four-story apartment with
stores at S9f First Avenue, 20x562.
Joseph b. Scutti sold to Minnie Ha-
herstroh the fve-story apartment at
407 West I40th Street, s7.6xf00.
Adolph and Aaron Waig- sold to a
client OF Samuel Scheur the fve-story
fat at $50 West i3ist Street. near Am
sterdafn Avenue, 57.5x45.4x irregular.
Bertha and Harvey N. Kuttrer sold
to the Weisner Realty Company she
six-story tenement with stores at 280
and 232 Thompson Street. 367x7S.
Pepe e. Bro. resold for client the
property at 100 Thompson Street. a
five-story tenement, 25x100.
William Fendrich sold to John r.
Huels the six-story tenement with
stores at 72s Tenth Avenue, 209xeo.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Far Rockaway Site Bought
For ST.. 100000 Proiec,

The Lewis H. May Company sold for
the Chase National Bank the Steiner
property at Far Rockaway to Barney
Goldberg. 1t is located at the north
west corner Of Broadway and Oak
Street and fronts 400 feet on Broad
way and 400 feet on Oak Street, con-
tanning over seventy lots, residence.
outpnlldlngs, garage, greenhouses,
Oak Street. The purchaser will remove
the present buildings and install new
hfty-foot street through the entire
property. Plans have been completed
for the erection of an all-year hotel,
twenty-thr brick residences with
garages, 60x150 each, and the Broad
way front will be reserved for an ele-
vator apartment. The property will be
developed on community plan, fol-
lowing the early English style OF
architecture. The property was held
at $125,0o0 and the operation will ex-
ceed $1,oo0,000.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Parts With Harlem Dwelling
Owned for Over 30 Yenrs

Shaw, Rockwell a. Sanford sold for
Lacy N Ray 220 West 12oth Street, a
tnree-stery dwelling, 17x100, to Jacob
Goodmnf. This is the first sale of the
property in over thirty years.
Nehritg Brothers sold for Thomas A..
Melody to a client of David Mints eco
west lsad Street, three story dwell
ing, Is.ax104.
Emma Bauer sold to Vincent Zu-
,kowsky the three-story dwelling at 22o
East rty-eighth Street, 13x10O.5.
Amadeo v. Negro bought from will
ham NJ. Berrian the three-story dwell
ing at 30 West Ninth Street, 25x93. IL.
Jennie Reidenbach sold to Amelia
and Norman G. Simerlein the four
story house at eli East Eighty sixth
Street, 25x100.
Thomas II. Hall sold the dwelling 4O6
west 146th Street to Mrs. William
Schunk.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Paper Concern, Purchases
Another Large Warehouse
West Virginia Pulp Company
Buys Building i'm West
Thirty.seyentll Street

The West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company has added to its warehouse
facilities in this city by the purchase
Of the six-story building at GOA TO $40
west Thirty-seventh Street from John
J. Sills & Sons, wholesale grocers.
This property, with a frontage of los
feet in Thirty-seventh Street, covers o
plot with westerly line of 9s.9 feet
racing the West Shore Railroad freight
yards, and brought reported price ot
S375,000
The Sills interests have arranged to
move to the big Industrial building on
queens Boulevard, opposite the Bridge
Plaza, Long Island City, where they
have leased large space.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Gas Cut Fake,
Price elncreased,
Declares Hylana
u.xor Telephones His De
= a,,ncialion of 'sHu,r,bug' 3
From, Saratoga; Asks Cor
noraaion Counsel 10 Act
g;g Consumers Are Elafed
s,:a;na Scale Gives Them
Advantage Without Bur-
dening Home Users

,..vo, Hylan teIephoned from Sara
xesserday TO his private secretary,
s.. r sinnott, TO say that the ten
Ii. reduction in gas rates ordered
8 81 he Public Service Commission is a
~ The Mayor charged the commits
.,sn +. With an attempt to "humbug the
yablie."
! The following. given out by Mr.,
sinnost last night:
ashow up the humbag Of alleged re-
snetiou in the price of gas announced
hv prendergast. The alleged reduction
!. no reduction at all, but an increase,
as the public viii discover when bills
so- Gas are received on the basis Of
hs.t units instead Of candle power.
"prepdergast knows this reduction is
o,,v : fake. He tries to forestali ex-
na..sre a by saying that any one demand
~ : return Of the eighty cent rate
!. tvv;ng to deceive the public. This
80 ,sdrction was made at the request
is1s 49, vas company themselves and is
gsl,.sS.S = -. 10 forestall and delay hear
,n.s'.s . - ina twenty-odd petitions for
asssss..at,on asss of the eighty cent rate,
LIN Corporation Counsel O'Brien
sisS AZ ny request last January with
The commission.
sprag Prendergast Out"
3rhe gas company representatives
hsys been holding secret sessions with
prsndergast during several months.
covnoration Counsel 0'Brien at my di-
,srs;on refused to take any part in
them. We saw the cards were stacked
sgsInst the public. The fake reduc-
ian announced this morning results
tyou these secret star chamber pro-
sTelI O,Brien to demand public hear
invs ON the applications for reductions
n ras rates charged by the different
.amnanies which he filed with the
commission. Tell him to drag Prem
dsroast out in the open on these appli-
cations so that the public will be able
70 see what humbug and farce the
alleged reductions are"
Mr. Prendergast, asked to reply to
have seen Mayor Hylan's ex-
tremely courteous and dignified state
neut In view of what ] said to the
sress when the new rate was an
aounced think the statement requires
no answer
John NJ. P. Thatcher, Of Roosevelt,
Kebbe & Thatcher, attorneys for the
Merchants Association in its fight be-
Tor the Public Service Commission for
lover industrial gas rates, said last
night.
sThe commission should be congratu-
lssed upon its far-reaching order. This
d the most sweeping and important
ordsr ever rendered in gas rate case
In shs State of New York.
1Te my mind the most important
fessurs ofsthe new schedule is the slid
Ing scale, which establishes lower
rates for industrial users who require
s-s-s---------------------------
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Big Roosevelt
Hotel to Cost
$6,OO0,OOO
10 Be l8- Story Building
ON Block Bounded by
Madison and Vanderbilt
Aves., 45th and 46th SITS.

George b.. Post q Sons, architects
have filed with the Manhattan Bureau
or Buildings plans for the construc.
uon OF an eighteen-story hotel on the
piock ,is bounded by Madison and. Wander
sixth streets, to be knowon as the Hotel
Roosevelt 1t will have a frontage Of
zoo feet on the avenues by 2lb feet
on each street, and will be in the
Gothic style of architecture. The cost
has been estimated at $4,000 900. The
New York State Realty and Termina,
Company, Alfred II. Smith, president
IS the owner of record. The New York
United Hotels, Inc, of which Frank II
Dudley. of Niagara Falls, N. Y, is
president, is the lessee.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

COAL LEASE FOR SALE, ,ooe ACRES
IN THE HAZARD coal FIELDS
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY FOR INVEST
MENT FOR PARTICULARS WRITE
EMpSEY e. ELLIS,
HAZARD, KY.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
& c al Estate Ne W )
Market Strong for All Glasses
OF Realty i'm the Bronx

5; Mnndel purchased from B. Jaku-
bovitz and G. Leichter the sixstory
apartment at Honeywell Avenue, south
west corner of 1S0th Street, 6s.2x1ls.2.
!, Frleda ISABELLE sold to Antonio
Laezza the four-story fiat at 24s0 Ar
thnr Avenue, 27,6xs0x irregular.
:, Rebecca Adelman sold to Nathan
Brown the six story fat at 1851 Bosten
Road, 266x130.
Peter s. Gettell. of Douglas ettelI,
SOLD the seven-stora building at 198th
street and cambridge Avenue, held at
sso,o0o. lsidore Ellison, a druggist, is
the buyer. . . 80
:, Marie McIlvennan sold to Frederick
hemmler the three story dwelling at
lsSf Briggs Avenue, 3SxlO6. 11x irregu-
Jacob Levy sold to Harry Estes the
.nree-story dwelling at 1867 Teller
William G. Beaumon, resold to Ro-
iano =. bishop the three story dwell
ing. at 1885 Bailey Avenue, 25xio0.7,
Harry Sugarman sold for Charles
'WSynne and Samuel Downing a plot on
the west side of Castlehifl Avenue,
seVenty-hve feet north Of Startling
Avenue, Tbx105, to builder, who plans
Immediate improvements.
The Manida Construction Corpora
tlon sold to Harry Levine the prop
erty on the east side of Manida Street,
a-o;li a. feet south of Lafayette Avenue,
Emile J. E. Ulrich sold the plot. COX
100, at the southeast corner of An
thony Avenue and 178th Street, to Her
The Kingsley Contracting Company
sold to Z. P. Carter the house ON a lot
io.SX5Ol l, on the west side of Van Cor
lear Place, 27o.4 feet south Of 227th
Street.
The Witlyn Operating Corporation
sold to Garman Bros. & Co. the plot
at the northeast corner of Forest Ave
nue. and 160th Street 6Ov Inn
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Change Plans for Tall Loft
For 7th Ave. Corner 81

Joseh E. Gilbert and associates. who
last April secured sixty-three.
lease of the northeast corner of Sew
cnth Avenue and Thirty Street,
l00x244, for the erection of a tall build
ing to house the millinery trade. have
changed their plans and will put up an
eighteen-story loft for light manufac-
turing. Bookman & Kahn are prepar-
ing the plans. Work will start in De-
eember, and the operation will involve
about $500 900.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
importers of Women's Apparel
To Pay S5OO.OOO Rental

Rutland & Benjamin leased the south
half Of the store and the floor above
at 636 Fifth Avenue, now occupied by
Crichton & Co., goldsmiths, for six
teen years, at an aggregate rental of
S60o,00O, After alterations the space
will be occupied by Kargere & Co.,
importers and manufacturers of wom-
ems apparel, now at 621 Fifth Avenue,
which Is being demolished
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Many More Get Office Space
In Grand Central Secfin

Albert B. Ashforth, Inc, leased
space, in the Brokaw Building, l457
broadway to VIM. Gettinger & Chas. A.
Pearson; at 366 Fifth Avenue to Bett-
ridge & Gross, and at Al East Forty
fourth Street, with Cross & Brown
Company, to Miss Emily e. Mason.
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc, leased
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Gets Long Island City Space

The Roman Callman Company and
Adams & Co. leased to Simon Acker-
man, of Manhattan, the fourth and
fifth floors Of the new concrete build
ing at 4s4 Van Alst Avenue, Long
Island City, containing $4,000 square
feet, for the manufacture of clothing.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
sURRoGATEs' NOTICES

HoYT, RosINA B-IN PURSUANCE ON
AN ORDER OF Honorable JOHN r.
COHALAN a Surrogate of the County Of
New York. NOTICE is hereby given 20 ali
persons having claims against RosinA r.
Hoyt, late OF the County of New rork
deceased, to present the same with Yogch.
ere thereof. to the subscribers, at their
place OF transactlng business at the office
is William Street, in the Borough OF Man
haitian, in the City OF New York, State
Of New York. on or before the 24tb asy
of October. 1929.
Datsd. New York. the 18th day Of April
JOHN SHERMAN HOYT.
RoS1NA s. HOYT.
T.. FARRAR BATESON.
Exscstora
Office and p. O. Address. 16 William
Street, Borough Of Manhattan. New
York City.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02

Sells Home in Larchmont
George Howe sold for Dan M. Harris
photographer, his home on Mvrtl,
boulevard, Larchmont Gardens. Larch
mont, N. Y, to Thomas H. Pagan. Th,
property was held at $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
REAL EsTATE--sALE OR RENT
Brooklyn

REALTY ASSOCIATES
Builders Of 600 Easy Housekeeping Homes"
162 Remsen Street, Brooklyn.