Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Elm Street 2

September 8, 1892, New York Times, In and About the City; Robert Irwin's Will. Charitable Bequests Which Have a Big 'If' In Their Way, The will of Robert Irwin, a retired leather merchant who died at his home, 42 West Fortieth Street, was filed for probate yesterday. His estate is valued at about a million. The will was executed June 18, 1892, and the executors are James Boyd and Alexander Fraser. A grandson, Irwin A. Powell, is to have the benefit of a trust fund of $250,000, all of which will become his at the age of thirty. Elm Street Widening. The Board of Street Opening and Improvement took up the matter of widening Elm Street again yesterday, but did nothing further than to ...

December 2, 1904, New York Times, Board Asks To See Subway Sign Contract; John Wanamaker Makes Plea for Crosstown Tunnels, ROUTE He Suggests Building Subway Through Eighth Street to the Fourth .... there are converging streets, and the widening of Elm Street extending to Lafayette ...

June 23, 1895, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Inducements to Prolong the Season of ...
The proceedings for taking property for the widening and extension of Elm Street are again hung up, this time until after the :Fourth of July, while the periodic ...

November 19, 1897, New York Times, Extra Allowance Asked; Strange Disappearance of Delicatessen... acquired by the city for the widening of Elm Street, in addition to the statutory ...

November 20, 1902, New York Times, New Bridge Approaches; Municipal Art Commission Submits an Elaborate Tentative Plan to Mayor Low, The plan which I received yesterday provides for the widening of Delancey ... to be a 100-foot street, and carrying it through to Elm Street by widening Spring ...

April 16, 1898, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Dealing at Private Contract Mainly ...
The Sixty-first Street lots will be cleared of rock and made ready for ... by 51.4 by 112, except the part thereof taken by the city for the widening of Elm Street.

February 19, 1888, New York Times, An Old-Fashioned Jam; Three Hours of Misery in West Broadway
If any argument is needed in favor of the immediate opening and widening of Elm -street, Mayor Hewitt and his Board of Street Opening can find it any day on ...

September 17, 1904, New York Times, Letter, To Relieve Congestion; Plan to Reduce Crowded Conditions at Bridge Entrance, ... and New Chambers Streets -- which will be aggravated when Elm Street is ... By widening some streets and extending others, which could be done now at a ...

January 16, 1902, New York Times, Elm Street Property Owners To Protest,.. The city acquired title to the land needed for widening: Elm Street in...

January 13, 1897, New York Times, Reasons for Increase in Debt.
In the matter of the Elm Street widening, the Commissioners of Estimate and Appraisal were appointed on the 'fifth of February, 1895. During the several weeks ...

November 8, 1895, New York Times, LUDLOW STREET JAIL REPAIRS; Sheriff Tamsen Thinks ...
Mr. Scott said that it would be necessary to build a new prison, on account ,of t he Elm Street widening.

December 14, 1887, New York Times, ABRAM THE TESTY.
Mayor Hewitt was asked this morning whether he had any evidence that the proposed widening and extension of Elm-street was the forerunner of a railroad or ...

April 20, 1899, New York Times, THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.; List of Plans Filed for New ...
T; Katie Bottte of 322 East Eighty-fifth Street, owner; Charles Stegmayer of 30G .... 9,000 ELM ST, e s, being a portion of 193 and 195 Elm St left after widening of ...

May 22, 1888, New York Times, sites for city buildings; their selection brings the powers in conflict ...
.. just east of the Western News Company Duildiur, in of Elm-street. ... will admit of widening of Centre-street from its southern extremity to Road o-street as may ...

March 17, 1895, New York Times, THINKS HER HUSBAND IS A SCAPEGOAT; Major Seward's Wife Trying to Get Hawaii to Set Him Free, Mr. Scott, yesterday had a meeting with the counsel representing the objecting property owners interested in the Elm Street widening. Obieetions were made to

August 15, 1897, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Increased Activity and More Vigorous Tone Apparent in the Transactions of the Last Few Days; WEEK'S IMPORTANT DEALINGS; Latest Sales by Brokers -- Auction Business Gaining and a Good Prospect for Traders -- Attractive Offerings for This Week -- Mortgages Filed, The proposed Elm Street widening is already beginning to influence values along the line of the new street

May 5, 1895, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; A Number of Offers Made For Desirable.Property, The Sums Involved Quite Large; Some Pending Propositions -- Not Much May Moving -- Dummies for Speculators -- New Hotel Project -- Auction Notes. Whatever may be the result of a number of propositions now under consideration, it is certain that there is a continuing demand for good property at fair prices. Among the offers pending are one for $500,000 for a Broadway corner, and another for $800,000 for a piece of business property. In the latter instance the owner was willing to sell at the price, but increased his figure by $25,000 when he found a customer....One sale -- to a "dummy" for well-known firm of speculators -- is of a piece of property on :Elm Street, most of which will be taken in the prospective widening of ...

February 8, 1895, New York Times, For the Elm Street Improvement,
Another and an important step has been taken in the slow process of providing for the widening and extension of Elm Street by the appointment of the ...

March 11, 1898, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Sales of Dwellings Make Up the Day's Business -- Little Dealing in the Auction Room, Pease Elllman have sold for about $5,000 the four-story brownstone-front dwelling 26 West Thirty-second Street, 5 by 100...Levy the four-story dwelling 131 West Street, 16 by 100.11. Jackson Stern have ... Strong Ireland sold, in foreclosure, to William F. Christie, for 817,200, the lot 161 Elm Street. (as widened,) 21.6 by 34.3 by 21.6 by 33.11. Richard V. Harnett ...

January 16, 1898, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Indications of a Healthy Revival Sustained by a Good Week's Dealings in Various Sections, Another of those sales which seem to occur periodically as a result of the Elm Street widening was that of 20 Bond Street and that the Church of the Holy Communion should see fit to dispose of its small holding at 330 Sixth Avenue at this time speaks for values in that neighborhood.

January 12, 1912, New York Times, New Court House In Park of Its Own; Laid Out as One of a Group, Including Municipal Building and Hall of Records, Land To Cost $6,500,000; Wit $5,000,000 More for Land in Prospect North of City Hall Park---Report to Estimate Board,
Plans for the site of a new Court House and for the incidental creation of a civic centre were laid before the Board of Estimate yesterday by its committee. Consideration of the project went over for a week, but if it is carried into effect the entire appearance of the district north of the Hall of Records and the Municipal Building from Lafayette Street to Mulberry Bend Park will be changed. The property between, Pearl, Elm, and Centre Streets would be converted into a park and Elm and Centre Streets widened. By the second the new park would ...

March 14, 1895, New York Times, Mayor Strong Objects; He Is Against Mandatory Legislation ...
Corporation Counsel Scott. after consultation with Strong, has sent to Albany an amendment to the Elm Street widening act, so as to make it necessary or the city ...

May 23, 1897, New York Times, Gov. Black Signing Bills; Senator McCarren's Brooklyn ...
... for the opening of Elm Street from City Hall Place to Great Jones Street Sir. ... Guy -- Amending the same maps by showing a widening of Wales Avenue, from ...

November 22, 1900, New York Times, Refunding to Cease; No Exchange of Bonds for Two Per Cents After Dec. 31 -- Total Refunded $355,000,000,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Secretary of the Treasury Gage to-day issued the following circular discontinuing the refunding Operations:...They asked the board to pass a resolution compelling the city to pay more than the cost of widening Elm Street. Trumun J. Baldwin and Michael J. Mulqueen ...

October 29, 1887, New York Times, The Elm-Street Improvement.
Early in Mayor HEWITT'S term of office the project for widening and extending Elmstreet was presented to the Board of Street Opening and Improvement.

April 21, 1893, New York Times, A Legislative Resume; Nearly All the Deviltry Was Crowded Into the Last Ten Days of the Session,
ALBANY, April 20. -- The stereotyped formula that is placarded in the average newspaper after the final adjournment of a State Legislature, "The worst in the history of the State," cannot be applied to the representatives of the people who left Albany to-day.... trucks off Fifth Avenue, the Furquhar Primary Election bill, all the rapid-transit ... $150,000 for the Castle Garden aquarium, to widen and improve Elm Street, ...

April 15, 1856, New York Times, New-York City.; Funeral of Superintendent McKeen. Sale of the...Further Widening and Extension of Duane street,
39 Fifth-street, listened to a pray or by Rev. .... from l: to Elm-street the same width ( feet) with the street as widened west of , the same to Centre.

February 12, 1908, New York Times, Site For Industrial Home; Workshop for City's Unemployed to be at Lafayette and Bond Streets,
... building known as 11 Bond Street and an adi[ gore lot along La/ i Street, created by the widening of! old Elm Street. The entire plot measures!

March 29, 1900, New York Times, Daniel E. Seybel Buys 5 and 7 East Forty-second Street
100 by 99.11. oi the south side of One Hundred and Fifty-first Street, 175 feet west of Amsterdam .... 32 Bond Street, northwest corner of Elm Street, as widened .

May 23, 1907, New York Times, In the Real Estate Field; Purchase on Fifty-second Street ...
Several sales have recently been made in this street east of Park Avenue, and it ... to discuss the awards for property to be taken for the widening of ]- Drive, ... a plot 71 by 40 by 50 on the east side of Cedar Avenue, '50 feet north of Elm Street; ...

February 9, 1868, New York Times, LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Proposed Widening and Extension of Laurens-street The Alderman is .... from Whitehall to Broad streets; -street, from Elm to West; Great Joues street, ...

March 17, 1887, New York Times, STREET ALTERATIONS.
The Board of Street Openings yesterday heard arguments in favor of the Elm- street widening scheme from ob Potter, jn Murray, Henry C. Stetson, and Robert B.

February 16, 1908, New York Times, PLANS NOW COMPLETE FOR CITY'S NEW STATEN ISLAND FERRY TERMINAL, DELANCEY STREET WIDENING. .... a plot 50 by 100, on the of Elm Avenue, between road a

April 3, 1895, New York Times, TAMMANY'S MONEY TRICK; Mayor Strong Shows How Financial
 Riverside Avenue widening, Among other similar ...

May 13, 1886, New York Times, The Squire Job Killed; Swamped in the Assembly by an Overwhelming Vote, The plan is to widen and extend Elm-street to the bridge on the south and Lafayette-place on the north. Among the property in favor of it are Judge Hilton, ...

May 10, 1859, New York Times, Elevating the Grade at Duane Street,

September 1, 1900, New York Times, REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

October 2, 1852, New York Times, NEW-YORK CITY.
If it should be determined to widen Anthony-street, all inroad would be made upon .... 142 Elm-street, testified that the deceased and Kenzer were together in his ...

March 1, 1862, New York Times, Law Reports- The Law Respecting "Specific Performance When the Court will not Compel the Delivery of a Deed,
46 Elm-street, in this City, pursuant to a contract, as alleged, made between the ... the plaitiff's agent represented that the proceedings for widening Worth street ...

August 21, 1896, New York Times, RAPID TRANSIT WORK BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET,
A piece of this pipe was 'st placed ::all a small .iland- machine, - and' the weight was ... Fourteenth -street would-be along the widened and ex-; fended Elm Street, ...
May 15, 1921, New York Times, Famous Morse Elm Gone; Historic Tree in Washington Removed AfterLong Fight for Life, The famous Morse elm at Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth Street, . one of ... a long but losing fight for its lift which began R-hen 1 Street was widened some ...

December 16, 1862, New York Times, [official.] board of councilmen.; petition. resolutions. motions. reports, ... of Franklin and Elm streets, down Elm to the corner of Leonard and Elm streets, ..... Street Commissioner be directed to Dave the Dler foot of street widened ten ...

September 11, 1903, New York Times, TRAFFIC PLANS FOR EAST RIVER BRIDGES; Commissioner,
At the Brooklyn end of the bridge the tracks are to pass over Sands Street, with ... widened Delancey Street to a terminus at the intersection of Elmand Broome ...

January 2, 1885, New York Times, city and suburban news; new-york. brooklyn. long island.
Charles Warwick, an old actor, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital. ... as Guerrell, who worked in a bookbindery in Elm-street, was found insensible on a bed iu his ... The Government is to widen and deepen the main channel as soon as ...

June 8, 1900, New York Times, New High School for Girls.
... at the north-west corner of Grand and Elm Streets, will be refitted for a new high .... 4,000 WASHINGTON AV.widened, n w corner of 174th St, 90x100: Morris ...

September 3, 1895, New York Times, FOURSCORE INJURED; Sea Beach Train to Coney Island Wrecked,
ANDERSON, , 315 Elm Street, Newark; contusions of head; Norwegian Hospital. ..... the crevices in the rent boiler widening, the volume of steam increased.

May 30, 1903, New York Times, City To Buy Land For Staten Island Ferry; Authorization Given by the Board of Estimate; Plan for a New County Court House Approved -- Park to Preserve the Old Morris Mansion. There was no opposition to the scheme originally adopted to widen Delancey and Suffolk Streets and to make a new street from the Bowery to Elm Street as an ...

September 16, 185, New York Times, New-York City; Democratic Congressional Nominations. The Unionists ...
More than fourteen thousand persons were carried over the Eighth-avenue ... Ot Dr. Edwards to be paid a bill for medical services Adverse to the widening of Wall-street. ... To have Catharine-lane, from Elm-street to Broadway, ram paired .

November 16, 1886, New York Times, City and Suburban News, yesterday visited Elm-street with the view of ascertaining just what changes will have to he !~ made in the proposed widening of --~~ faro. " O. P."-A chattel ...

December 15, 1894, New York Times, The Elm Street Widening; Opposition to the Appointment of a Commission of Assessment, Opposition to the Appointment of u Commission of Assessment. The question of the appointment of a ...

September 3, 1895, New York Times, FOURSCORE INJURED; Sea Beach Train to Coney Island Wrecked ...
ANDERSON, , 315 Elm Street, Newark; contusions of head; Norwegian Hospital. ..... the crevices in the rent boiler widening, the volume of steam increased.

May 30, 1903, New York Times, CITY TO BUY LAND FOR STATEN ISLAND FERRY; Authorization ...
There was no opposition to the scheme originally adopted to widen Delancey and Suffolk Streets and to make a new street from the -Bowery to Elm Street as an ...

September 16, 1852, New York Times, New-York City; Democratic Congressional Nominations; the Unionists ...
More than fourteen thousand persons were carried over the Eighth-avenue ... Or Dr. Edwards to be paid a bill for medical services Adverse to the widening of Wall-street. ... To have Catharine-lane, from Elm-street to Broadway, repaired .

November 16, 1886, New York Times, city and suburban news; new-york. brooklyn. westchester county...
yesterday visited Elm-street with the view of ascertaining just what changes will have to he !~ made in the proposed widening of --~~ faro. " O. P."-A chattel ...

May 6, 1856, New York Times, NEW-YORK CITY.; HISTORICAL LECTURES. The Progress of the Papal Power,... acts of the Street Committee, with reference to the widening and improving of ..... stole a watch and from John Wilson, at a L house of bad repute in Elm-street.

November 26, 1911, New York Times, East Harlem Corner On Lexington Avenue Subway Route Leased ... Jkt Thornewood, Great Neck --Six lots on Elm Street. between Avenue and .... %- Vithin the last few years the expansion of the theatre, hotel, and restaurant zone ...

September 24, 1866, New York Times, LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; THE FULTON-STREET PRAYER,  To-day the anniversary of the Fulton-street Prayer-meeting is to be held in the old .

January 3, 1854, New York Times, New-York City--What has been Done in 1853,
The Street-cleaning expenses of 1853 amount to 289,025--the appropriation ... have given place, since the widening of the street, to rows of elegant storehouses , .... of Grand and Elm-streets-Mr. Benedict, President of the Board, in the Chair.

March 16, 1854, New York Times, Removal of the Dead, Grand-street and Peck-slip to Williamsburg, was granted to the named.....said that the first business in order was in relation to widening the above street. .... of Education was in the School Buildings, corner of Grand and Elm-streets, at 5 P. M,...

August 10, 1871, New York Times, More Light; The Pay-Rolls Some of Their Peculiarities. William M. Tweed As a Financier; Allow to Run a Printing Company, a Stationers' Company, an Arms Company, a Chair Factory, a Newspaper and an Hotel, on Economical Principles, The head-Quarters of this concern are on Centre-street, near Leonard, but it has ... is a lithographic establishment corner of Reads and Elm I streets, and from these ....widening job, it will not be necessary to say that these street-opening jobs ...

March 20, 1855, New York Times, New-York City; The New City Hall; New-York Sketch Club; School Examination, To have Front-street, from Pine to Wall repaved, Of Hose Co. ... all papers now on file, relative to the widening of West-street, to appropriate Committees. ... all papers on the extension of Elm-street, and refer them to appropriate Committees.

May 28, 1911, New York Times, Interesting Contrasts In Development Around the Borough Hall of Brooklyn, Subway traffic, the widening of Livingston Street. with its trolley traffic, wi]: .... on the south side of-Elm Avenue, .upon which he will erect a dwelling, and to C.

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