{"1": {"fulltext": "F\\n\\\\Z%.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "C!ass_ V\\nBook\\n.F\\\\M.S-", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "JUL 5 190a\\nFairview\\nYONKERS, N. Y\\nOWNED\\nAND\\nDEVELOPED\\nBY\\nThe Manhattan Yonkcrs Land (^o.\\n20 EAST 42d STREET,\\nNew York City.\\nJ. H. Gordon,\\nGeneral Selling A^ent.\\nm-.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "15036\\n^*o Copies Rece\u00e2\u0080\u009eeo I\\n5 1900\\n^yyrigM entry\\nSECOND copy,\\nOelinrKi to\\nORDER DIVISION\\nJUL 6 190D\\n64888\\nCopyright 1900\\nBY\\nJ. H. GORDON.\\n-5A..^.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nIntroductory 5\\nLocation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 How to Reach Fairview 7\\nAccessibility 9\\nHealthfulness 11\\nCity Advantages\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schools 13\\nRefined Surroundings 14\\nVan Cortlandt Park 15\\nFacts About Yonkers 17\\nPeculiarities of New York 18\\nThe New Rapid Transit Road 19\\nThe Growth of New York 20\\nThe Magnitude of New York 23\\nFairview as an Investment 24\\nThe Desire for a Home 27\\nOur Houses at Fairview 29\\nRecapitulation 30\\nPrices, Terms\\nWhat Well Known People Say of Real Estate\\nInvestments 32", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Digitized by the Internet Archive\\nin 2011 with funding from\\nThe Library of Congress\\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/fairviewyonkersnOOmanh", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY.\\nWl^ feel that in presenting TAIRVIEW for the con-\\nsideration of homeseekers, we are offering some-\\nthing particularly attractive to the refined middle class.\\nFairview has unique, value giving features, lifting it\\ninto a class of its own. It is naturally and by virtue of the\\nimprovements which we are making, a high class property\\nthough offered at moderate prices and close observation of\\nthe suburbs of New York has engendered the sincere belief\\nthat no other equally good property is so cheap, and no other\\nequally cheap property is so good.\\nWe believe that every reader of this booklet who will\\ntake the trouble to inform himself, will agree with that state-\\nment, and with so much proven, we are quite willing to close\\nour case and submit it to the family jury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yourself your wife\\nand your children.\\nYours respectfully,\\nThe Manhattan Yonkcrs Land Co.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "X\\nQ\\na\\nG\\na\\na\\no\\nGO\\na\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2g\\no\\nOk", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "pAIRVIEW\\nFairview is located in the City of Yonkers, a\\nLocation. distance from the New York Cit} Line,\\nand directly at Nepperhan station on the Main Line of the\\nPutnam Division, N. Y. C. H. R. R. R. (See map inside\\nof back cover.)\\nIt is situated on a gently sloping- hillside and a level\\nplateau on the top. The property commands extended\\nviews of the beautiful Nepperhan Valley to the North, while\\nto the East and South are the rugged and picturesque West-\\nchester Hills and Valleys. To the West occasional glimpses\\nof the Palisades and the mountains of Northern New Jersey\\nare to be had.\\nTake Sixth or Ninth Avenue Elevated to 155th Street\\nStation, there take train on MAIN LINE Putnam Division,\\nN. Y. C. H. R. R. R. direct to NEPPERHAN\\nSTATION. To_\\nOr take train on Hudson River Division, Pgacf^\\nN. Y. C. H. R. R. R. at Grand Central Depot\\nor at 125th Street Station and notify conductor Fairykw.\\nthat you wish to transfer to Putnam Division\\nat High Bridge or Morris Heights. Time-tables will be for-\\nwarded upon application.\\nWe would suggest that parties desiring to see FAIR-\\nVIEW, first come to our oflice. No. 20 East 42d Street, New\\nYork City, and we will take pleasure in showing the property\\nand in giving full information.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "CO\\no\\ng\\no\\no", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ACCESSIBILITY.\\nFairview is only 22 minutes from 1 55th Street Station,\\nNew York City. From 15 5th Street, Elevated Express\\ntrains reach Rector Street in 34 minutes, bringing the extreme\\nSouthern end of Manhattan Island within less than an hour\\nfrom your breakfast table at Fairview, or\\nConvenient passengers may transfer to the Hudson River\\nDivision at High Bridge or Morris Heights,\\n*2_i!i and reach the Grand Central Depot at 42d\\nPoints. Street in 37 minutes from Fairview.\\nThe commutation rate of fare is $6.85\\nper month (about eleven cents per ride) which includes fare\\non the Manhattan Elevated Railroad to any part of the city,\\nor if transfer is made to Hudson River Division the commu-\\ntation ticket carries you to 42d Street.\\nThe Yonkers Railway Company has recently secured a\\nfranchise for a trolley line past Fairview, which line will be\\nbuilt this year. This will place Fairview in direct touch\\nwith the great Metropolitan Street Railway Company s Sys-\\ntem with five cent fare into New York, and it will also bring\\nFairview within a few minutes ride of the Fine Churches,\\nHigh School, Public Library, Theatre, Clubs, Social Life, and\\nthe large stores of Yonkers, a city of 50,000 people.\\nThe new Underground Rapid Transit Road now in pro-\\ncess of construction will terminate at Kingsbridge which is\\nnow only sixteen minutes by train from Fairview.\\nVan Cortland Park with its golf links, military parade\\ngrounds, its band concerts and other attractions is reached by\\ntrain from Fairview in about ten minutes.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "fAIRVIEW\\nDiagram\\n-5\\nsnowing\\naltitude\\nof\\nSHIP CANAL\\nFAIRVIEW\\nand\\nt\\nS\\n33\\nother\\nwell\\nknown\\nW\\n155th St. 10th Av.\\npoints.\\n110th St.\\n9th Av.\\n59th St. 9th Av.\\nBRYANT PARK\\n14th St. 5th Av.\\nCITY HALL\\nBATTERY\\nNEW YORK BAY", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HEALTHFULNESS.\\nIn selecting a suburban residence the one consideration\\nof greatest importance is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is it healthful? if not, if the\\nground is low and swampy and likely to be malarious, you\\ndon t want it at any price. Fairview is located\\namong the Westchester Hills, long celebrated High\\nfor pure air, and freedom from disease produc- r,-j.\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00c2\u00abj\\ning germs, as well as from the wrath provoking\\nmosquito.\\nPeople troubled with bronchial or lung difficulties find\\nthe air here a great relief from the strong salt air prevailing\\nnearer the sea, and it is a common practice with city physi-\\ncians to send such patients to Yonkers.\\nThe particular hill on which Fairview is located is\\nshown by the Topographical Map issued by the U. S. Geo-\\nlogical Survey to be about 300 feet above sea level. New\\nYorkers will appreciate what this altitude means by compar-\\ning it with that of some well known high places in the city.\\nFor instance the highest point in the Murray Hill section is\\nabout 85 feet, on Morningside Heights about 138 feet. The\\ncorner of 15 5th Street and Amsterdam Avenue 148 feet,\\nwhile on the upper end of Manhattan Island slightly\\nPure over 200 feet is reached. Fairview is supplied\\nwith the pure, wholesome and abundant Yonkers\\ny^ll^ city water.\\nThe genuine healthfulness of the City of\\nYonkers is too well known to need comment as it always\\nstands among the cities having the lowest death rate and\\nsometimes as high in the list as second in the United States.\\n11", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "I I\\n1^\\n3\\no\\nCO\\na\\n(A\\na\\no\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IH\\nO\\no\\nON\\no\\nM\\n(0\\no\\no", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "To Live in the Country\\nstrictly speaking, involves the giving up of city advantages\\nto which we have become so accustomed that they are real\\nnecessities.\\nFew city people, for instance, would\\nC\\\\i willingly forego the luxury of running water\\nin their homes with all the attendant com-\\nAdvantagcs. forts of hot and cold baths, and sanitary\\nplumbing.\\nTo live in the crowded city on the other hand involves\\nthe giving up of the freedom, the fresh air and the restful-\\nness of the country.\\nHappy is he who has the advantages of both city and\\ncountry.\\nFairview is in the City of Yonkers, it is in fact nearly\\nthe geographical centre of the city, though suburban to the\\nbusiness section. It has free mail deliveries, police protec-\\ntion, electrically lighted streets, and houses, Yonkers city\\nwater, pure, wholesome and plentiful. Protected by the\\nYonkers Fire Department. Telegraph and express offices at\\nthe station directly at the property. A telephone in a Fair-\\nview house, connected with the Yonkers Exchange (over\\n700 subscribers) costs only $36.00 per year.\\nThe public school system of Yonkers is\\nunsurpassed by that of any city in the country.\\nA good grammar school is within two Facilities.\\nor three minutes walk of Fairview, while the\\nYonkers High School, reached in a few minutes\\nby the trolley, which will soon be completed, is a very fine\\ninstitution fitting students for all colleges. A number of ex-\\ncellent private schools and two business colleges are also in\\nYonkers.\\n13", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Refined Surroundings.\\nTo be quiet, refined, homelike, or to be noisy, coarse,\\nirritating.\\nTo have neighbors pleasant, congenial and friendly, or\\nboisterous, disagreeable and dissipated.\\nTo have your children play with whole-\\n*0 some companions, or to have them taught all\\nkinds of knavery and bad habits by a lot of\\nvicious hoodlums.\\nNot to be. To meet well-behaved, prosperous look-\\ning people on the street, or to dodge drunken\\nmen coming from the corner saloon.\\nYou are buying a home, not for this season or this year\\nbut for life. It is not only how the neighborhood looks now,\\nhow will it look in five or ten years is it being developed\\nupon a definite plan Or are the lots owned by Tom, Dick\\nand Harry who will build anything that may please them.\\nAre any restrictions upon adjoining property so that\\nyou know whether a gin mill may not soon be flourishing\\nthere\\nNot only do these matters vitally affect the happiness\\nand well being of the family, but upon them to a very great\\nextent depends the future value of the property, and anyone\\nfit to be the head of a household will ask himself all of these\\nquestions before he chooses a home.\\nFairview answers correctly every one of these interroga-\\ntions. Not only is Fairview itself, consisting of more than\\none thousand lots, restricted and being built up by the\\nowners in a manner attractive to the refined middle class, but\\nthe property on both sides of it is restricted in like manner.\\nBeware of a Hit and Miss neighborhood.\\nu", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Van Cortlandt Park.\\nOnly ten minutes by train from Fairview is Van Cort-\\nlandt Park, New York City s noblest dedication to the health\\nand happiness of the future generations. Containing II32\\nacres of land (nearly 3 00 acres more than Central Park and\\nmore than twice the size of Prospect Park), it is one of the\\nlargest and finest areas ever set aside for park purposes.\\nThe old Manor House and the Old Mill at Van Cort-\\nlandt are interesting relics of Colonial Days. The Manor\\nHouse was frequently the headquarters of both\\nP^st. Armies during the Revolution. The patriots under\\nWashington and Rochambeau, and the British under\\nHowe, Knyphausen and Tarleton.\\nHere are one of the finest golf links in the country,\\nbicycle paths, baseball and cricket tlelds, a large\\nlake with boating in the summer and skating in Present.\\nthe winter. Interesting and instructive to both\\nold and young are the evolutions of infantry, cavalry and\\nartillery, as well as regular sham battles, which occur from\\ntime to time on the great military parade ground.\\nHere also on summer afternoons will be found laughing,\\nchatting throngs of people who have come by train, by car-\\nriage and bicycle to listen to the grand open air concerts which\\nare regularly given by the finest bands of New York City.\\nFuture. Van Cortlandt Park is, in time, not as far from\\nlower New York as was Central Park in its early\\ndays. The actual growth of the City up to and around\\nCentral Park is prophetic to say the least, of the future of\\nVan Cortlandt.\\n15", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "^v\\no\\no\\no\\nGO\\nb/0\\n(0\\na\\no", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Facts About Yonkers.\\nAdjoins New York on the North the finest suburb.\\nI^cached Comfortably by Railroad no Ferries or crowded\\nBridges.\\nAbout 160 Trains a day between Yonkers and New York.\\nCommutation fare about S^c. a ride.\\nTime from Grand Central Station 25 minutes, from Rector\\nStreet 54 minutes.\\nPopulation ^0,000.\\nTwo National Banks.\\nTwo Savings Banks, one Trust Company. Safe Deposit Boxes.\\n28 Churches Methodist 5, Baptist 4, Catholic 6, Episcopal 4,\\nPresbyterian 4, Reformed 2, Congregational 1, He-\\nbrew 1, Lutheran 1.\\nFine Public Library.\\nSchools- Unexcelled, consisting of High School and I3 other\\npublic schools. Total value over $700,000. Numer-\\nous private schools.\\nClubs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Social, Tennis, Golf, Yacht, Boat, Canoe, Country,\\nBicycle and others.\\nHospitals\u00e2\u0080\u0094 two. Finely equipped.\\nFire Department. I9 companies, 565 men.\\nAmple Police Force, mounted and on foot.\\nAbundant Supply Pure Water. Plant owned by the City.\\nCity is practically out of debt, its water works would sell for\\nenough to pay all indebtedness.\\nElectric lights, gas, electric cars. First-class markets.\\nManufactures carpets, hats, sugar, elevators, silks, electrical\\ndevices, etc. Over 10,000 operatives. Annual prod-\\nuct over ;^2 1,000,000.\\nMagnificent Drives, 63 miles of asphalt and macadamized\\nstreets.\\nTelephone Exchange, over 700 subscribers, low rates.\\nMore than five million people live within a radius of 20 miles.\\nYonkers is directly in the line of New York s greatest and\\nmost substantial growth.\\n17", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Peculiarities of New York,\\nThe peculiarities of New York have, of course, a very\\nimportant effect on real estate values in and about the City,\\nand conclusions which would be justified in an) other place\\nmight be very erroneous here.\\nNew York is unlike any other American city, geographi-\\ncally, socially and commercially. Being located on a narrow\\nisland and cut off on three sides by bodies of water so large\\nas to form an effectual barrier to growth in any direction\\nexcept Northward, it may be compared to a great sack into\\nwhich countless railroads and steamship lines\\nFilling Up are pouring streams of people from East,\\nT ard South. Like the sack it\\nbegan to fill at the bottom which is at the\\nYonkcrs. Battery, and like the sack it is filling up\\ntoward the top which is at Yonkers. True,\\nthere have been a few holes punched in it through which the\\nsmaller particles ooze out into Brooklyn and New Jersey\\nbut no opening can ever be made large enough for the pas-\\nsage of great business interests.\\nThe enormous values of land in New York prohibit the\\nowning of separate homes by any but the wealthy, and as a\\nconsequence the great majority of the citizens are obliged to\\nlive in flats and apartments or seek homes in the suburbs.\\nThe result of this condition is a marvelous suburban\\npopulation, and most of the country near New York is thickly\\nsettled with people who earn their living in the city. Vil-\\nlages, towns and cities cluster around the railroad stations\\nand any real country is hard to find.\\nDraw a circle around the New York City Hall at any\\ndistance from half a mile to twenty-five miles, and it will\\npass property of every conceivable kind and price.\\nNot distance, but neighborhood, healthfulness, accessi-\\nbility, govern values.\\n18", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "The New Rapid Transit Koad,\\nMarch 24th, 1900, was a memorable day in the History\\nof New York City, for on that day, in the presence of a vast\\nmultitude of people, the air filled with flags and banners, a\\nspadeful of earth was turned over by the Mayor, the formal\\nbeginning of work on the Rapid Transit Tunnel. This cere-\\nmony was really more in the nature of a triumphal ending\\nthan a beginning, for the overcoming of political opposition\\nand prejudice of all kinds had been a more seri-\\nous undertaking than the actual construction of\\nthe Tunnel. The first spadeful of earth removed X2.\\nwas therefore the beginning of the end the\\nrealization of the hope for Real Rapid Transit. !1^^\\nThe City had grown so fast that it seemed as if ic\\nnot enough means of travel could be crowded on\\nand above the streets to accomodate the people. Minutes\\nso a road was to be built underground so mag- __I\\nnificent in its appointments as to solve for many\\nyears to come, the problem of uptown and downtown transit.\\nTen thousand men with pick, shovel and drill were to dig\\naway the barriers of distance separating the North and South\\nends of the city, thirty-five millions of dollars to be expended\\nin a fresh air fund to enable countless thousands to live far-\\nther North in homes of their own.\\nUnderneath the ground, away from the delaying throng\\nOf pedestrains, carriages and trucks, luxurious electric trains\\nwill shoot at a speed of forty miles an hour through a safe,\\nclean, well lighted and ventilated tunnel. Neither fog or\\nsnow will be known there, rainy days will be dry and windy\\ndays will be calm.\\nThe Harlem River will be nearer the City Hall than\\nMadison Square was twenty-tlve years ago. Fairview will be\\nnearer than was Central Park.\\nNote. It is interesting to know that the street railroads of\\nManhattan Island alone, carried in 1899, more passengers, by\\nfar, than all the steam railroads in the United States. The\\nfigures are Manhattan, 656,582,128; Railroads of United\\nStates, 514,982,288.\\n19", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "The Growth of New York.\\nAll American cities grow, but it seems an established\\nprinciple that the magnetic attraction of a city increases in pro-\\nportion to its size, and this rule has held good in New York.\\nStarting with a small settlement at the Southern end of\\nManhattan Island, the story of Northward progress has been\\nrepeated over and over again. The suburbs of one year have\\nbecome the thickly settled residence sections of the next,\\nonly to be again transformed into business centres.\\nLots that only a few years ago were worth\\nThe West hundreds now bring tens of thousands of\\ndollars.\\n^j^jg In 1885 the territory West of Central Park\\nwas so sparsely settled that only one lot in\\nin 85 seventeen was built upon. Now, nearly every\\nlot is covered by a magnificent structure. In\\n188 5 on the east side of Columbus Avenue be-\\ntween 64th and 95th Streets there were but one stone and\\ntwo brick buildings. There was not a stone or brick buil-\\nding on Amsterdam Avenue from 83rd to 95th Street, and\\nnot one on 89th, 90th or 91st Streets.\\nNew York and its environs contained in 1800 about one\\neighty fourth of all the people in the United States, while in\\n1900 according to the best obtainable estimate, one in nine-\\nteen live in and directly around New York. The United\\nStates has sixteen times as many people as in 1800, New\\nYork and its environs has seventy-three times as many. And\\nnever during all that period has the Metropolis progressed\\nwith such gigantic strides as during the past ten years, and\\nnever in ten years as fast as during the past year.\\nPOPULATION OF NEW YORK.\\n1653,\\n1,120\\n1880,\\n1,206,299\\n750,\\n10,000\\n1880,\\ni 1,903,19\\niSoo,\\n60,489\\n1 890,\\nl,CiIS,30!\\n1820,\\n123,706\\n1890,\\n2,489, :;4o\\n1840,\\n312,710\\n1900,\\n3, 609,034\\ni860,\\n813,609\\nIncluding all of the present Greater New York,\\nf Estimated.\\n20", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Growth of New York.\\nNothing perhaps so plainly illustrates the progress of a\\ncity, no evidence of growth is more indisputable, than the\\nstatistics of building operations. New York is so\\nfar ahead of the other cities in new buildings for\\n1899 that a comparison becomes almost ludicrous.\\nFrom the figures we have been able to collect it\\nseems apparent that the cost of New York s building\\noperations for 1899 exceeded those of all the other cit-\\nies of the United States put together.\\nThe following statistics of some of the cities will con-\\nvince you that this estimate is not exaggerated.\\nGrowth\\nin\\nDollars.\\nNew York City, New Buildings 1899,\\nAlterations,\\nChicago,\\nPhiladelphia,\\nPittsburgh,\\nWashington,\\nCleveland,\\nKansas City,\\nDetroit,\\nMilwaukee,\\nBuffalo,\\n^20,856,570\\n20,377,090\\n7,201,215\\n6,041,643\\n5,488,728\\n4,160,700\\n4,002,680\\n3,931,466\\n3,409,489\\nMinneapolis,\\nCincinnati,\\nSt. Paul,\\nNew Orleans,\\nToledo,\\nAtlanta,\\nAllegheny,\\nOmaha,\\nDes Moines,\\nDenver,\\n$156,843,321\\n10,149,107\\n$166,992,428\\n$3,003,014\\n2,650,879\\n2,597,488\\n1,779,405\\n1,462,525\\n1,293,997\\n1,254,125\\n1,045,664\\n720,452\\n2,189,953\\nTotal for nineteen cities, Sr93, 467,980\\nin\\nIt will be noticed that New York s building operations for\\n1899 were about eight times those of Chicago or Philadelphia.\\nThe assessed value of the realty, (land and\\nbuildings) in New Haven, Conn., is ^52,874,368. Growth\\nNew York s new buildings equalled this value in\\nfour months.\\nNew York s 10,979 new buildings for 1899 cost\\non an average ^14,286 each. This equals thirty-\\nsix such buildings every working day, or a buil-\\nding every thirteen minutes costing $14,286, more than a thousand\\ndollars a minute, and these buildings doubtless covered an area of\\n1200 acres in one year. Think of it\\nArea\\n21", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "LtfC.", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Magnitude of New York.\\nNew York was afterwards sold for twenty-Tour dollars,\\nthe whole island. When 1 think of this 1 go into my family\\ngallery, which I also use as a swear room, and tell those an-\\ncestors of mine what I think of them. Where were they\\nwhen New Yoik was sold for twenty-four dollars?\\nBill Aye, History of Uniled States.\\nThe second city in the world and the first on the West-\\nern Hemisphere, New York is so great that even its own citi-\\nzens do not appreciate it.\\nIts population January 1st, 1900, according\\nPopulation, to the Board of Health was 3,609,634. More\\nthan that of Chicago and Philadelphia put\\ntogether and more than the combined population of the States\\nof Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecti-\\ncut, Delaware and Colorado.\\nThe assessed valuation of real and personal property in\\nNew York City in 1899 was ^3,478,352,029. A sum so great\\nthat it would take nearly all the money in circu-\\nlation in the United States to pay one-half of it. Wealth.\\nThis is more than sixteen times the assessed valua-\\ntion of Chicago, and more than the combined assessed valua-\\ntion of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis\\nand Cleveland.\\nThe Bank Clearances in New York in 1899 were\\n^57,368,230,771, and in all the other cities of the United\\nStates put together $31,541,431,005. The daily business of\\nthe New York Clearing House was ^1 88,092,560.\\nBusiness. Equal to handling all of the money in the world\\nevery sixty days.\\nNew York s manufactures far exceed those of any Amer-\\nican city and it imports about two-thirds of all the goods\\nbrought into the United States.\\nThese figures and comparisons might be continued indefi-\\nnitely but enough are here given to show that in the race for\\nsupremacy. New York is far, far ahead of all competitors.\\n23", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Fairview as an Investment.\\nIt is a source of satisfaction in buying a home to know\\nthat it has been purchased at a price which insures, not only\\nyour money back if you should ever desire to sell,\\nPurchase |3^t a profit on the investment. A wise purchase\\nmay, and probably will, make you a gainer of\\n!lH5!yi thousands of dollars.\\nThe present value of Fairview property can\\nbe very accurately determined by comparison, a method\\nwhich will naturally be employed, and one of which we\\nheartily approve, because it will confirm our belief, that no\\nother equally good property is so cheap, and no other equally\\ncheap property is so good.\\nThe question for the futitre value of a piece r^^esent\\nof property however, is one of keen judgment and\\ndiscrimination.\\nValues in Real Estate as in everything else ruture.\\ndepend upon supply and demand.\\nThe supply of Real Estate is a known quantity. Demand\\nis increased by increased population and development, also\\nas conditions arise making certain property more desirable\\nthan before.\\nNew York City began at the Battery and has been grow-\\ning Northward ever since. Each succeeding year without a sin-\\ngle exception, has seen its centre of population nearer Yonkers.\\nThe geographical peculiarities of New York make it\\nimpossible that the substantial growth, the great business\\ninterests shall ever go in any other direction.\\nThe The city is now almost absolutely full except\\nthe 1 2th, 23rd and 24th Wards, which extend from\\nSupply. 86th street to the Yonkers City Line. The sup-\\nply South of 86th Street is therefore now exhaus-\\nted and the three Northerly Wards and Yonkers must now\\naccommodate practically all further increase of population.\\n24", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Fairview as an Investment.\\n4057 acres in the 23rd and 24th Wards have been set\\naside for park purposes, decreasing- the available supply to\\nthis enormous extent and by making- that the Park section,\\nincreasing the demand.\\nThe There arc to-day in these three Northerly Wards\\n582,910 people, a greater and more dense popula-\\nDemand. tion than has the City of Boston. Great inroads\\nhave therefore been made upon that source of\\nsupply. Next comes Yonkers.\\nExactly what the demand will be we do not know. We\\ndo know that in ten years past New York and its suburbs have\\nincreased in population about one and one-half millions, which\\nmeans that every day homes have been provided for over four\\nhundred people. Nobody doubts that the increase in the next\\nten years will be much greater.\\nWe know that Rapid Transit is now assured, that thirty-\\nfive millions of dollars are to be spent in order that residents\\nof upper New York may reach their business more easily and\\nquickly. We believe that this alone will double or quadruple\\nthe demand for property in the North end.\\nWe know that anything like what seems Progress\\nthe inevitable demand for property there will\\nincrease values wonderfully. Travels by\\nThe natural tendency of a growing city is to\\nfollow along the lines of easiest communication. Railroad.\\nthe population along lines of Railroad is, about\\nNew York, miles in advance of the more inaccessible localities.\\nFairview is directly at a railroad station. It is more\\neasily reached from downtown to-day than most sections in\\nthe 23rd and 24th Wards, it is far lower in price than prop-\\nerty there. It is restricted, insuring the character of the\\nneighborhood. It is in a city of 50,000 people thus gaining\\ngreat advantages over ordinary suburbs. In short it has\\nadvantages which bespeak its full share of prosperity. How\\ncan it be other than a good investment", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "I\u00e2\u0080\u0094 t\\ncJ\\nG\\no\\n4v\\nC\\no\\nG\\na\\n(0\\nu\\nCO\\nQ\\nu\\n(J\\na\\nu\\no\\nu\\n(J\\nCO\\no\\nDC", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL\\nIN THE HUMAN BREAST/\\nThe average New Yorker lives in an apartment or a flat.\\nAs a rule he does not expect that he will always continue to\\ndo so. He regards it only as a temporary arrangement, a\\nmakeshift which will do for a time until he can have a\\nHome a home that will be his own, this year and next year,\\na home that his children will grow up to remember and to\\nlove. His home must be visited by that greatest\\nTu of physicians, the bright sunlight. The pure air\\nmust circulate freely through it, driving disease and\\nDesire death to more congenial quarters.\\nThere must be plenty of out -door exercise for\\nthe children, for in their early life is fixed their\\nHome, physical destiny whether they have to fight life s\\nl3attle hearty, vigorous and forceful, or as puny,\\ninanimate weaklings.\\nThe flat dweller is tired of his narrow, cramped quar-\\nters, he wants to be independent of the petty tyrannies of\\nlandlords and janitors, he wants more elbow room, a place\\nto put things, a den of his own, he wants a piazza where\\nhe may enjoy the long summer evenings with his family, a\\nlittle lawn with green grass and a few flowers.\\nHe thinks of Merry Christmas at home, his relatives have\\ncome to dinner, the children are having a hilarious romp with\\ntheir little cousins. How happy everybody is. How heartily\\nhe is congratulated upon having such a delightful home, and\\nhow proud he is of it. He dreams of another Christmas\\nwhen the children shall have grown up and have homes of\\ntheir own, yet they come home for Christmas, little cous-\\nins too are playing together as merrily as of old, but they are\\nnot the same little cousins.\\nIs there nothing to live for, better than assortment of\\nrent receipts\\n27", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "m\\n1^", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Our Houses at Fairvicw.\\nThe greater part of Fairview will be built up and offered\\nfor sale in its improved condition, thus insuring the quality\\nand standard of the houses.\\nWe shall not attempt in this booklet to describe\\nLook any particular house or houses, but will simply give\\nthe reader an idea of the standard of quality which\\nat we are following. (See cuts on pages 22, 26 and\\nTh\\nWe shall be very glad to show you at any time\\nsuch houses as we may have unsold and to name\\nprices for them. We aim to make our houses comfortable,\\nconvenient and pleasant.\\nWe wish to make every room light and airy. We know\\nthat people like a piazza to sit on, that they like the cleanli-\\nness of hardwood floors in living rooms, the comforts of\\nmodern plumbing and the convenience of electric lighting, and\\nall these are found in our houses.\\nWe build no house on a single lot of ground consequently\\nwe are able to give a greater variety of arrangement than is\\npossible with narrower houses.\\nOur lioLises are of frame construction as is fitting in a su-\\nburban home, the frame is first covered tight with good\\nmatched boards, which are then covered with heavy buil-\\nding paper after which come the clapboards or shingles as\\nthe case may be, they are painted with pure lead and oil.\\nThe foundations are of stone, cellars high and light and well\\ncemented, in all living rooms we use hardwood trim and\\npolished hardwood floors, laid over common floors, greatly\\nincreasing the warmth of the house.\\nHouses are heated by good furnaces and lighted by elec-\\ntricity. They are provided with combination gas and elec-\\ntric fixtures, and nicely decorated. The plumbing is exposed\\nnickel and bathtub enamelled, laundry tubs are stone.\\nGood ranges are provided.\\nWe grade and sod or seed the lawns, plant shade trees and\\nlay sidewalks, in short we finish the houses inside and out,\\nready to move into.\\nNo\\nWe grade and macadamize the streets and\\ncurb and^pave the gutters at our own expense Extra\\nunder the supervision of the proper city author-\\nities, relieving purchasers of all this expense. Expense.\\n29", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "FAIRVIEW AS A HOME IS DESIRABLE.\\nBecause\\nIt is Accessible\\nIt is Healthful\\nIt is I^cstrictcd\\nIt Has Country Surroundings\\nCity Advantages\\nSchools\\nPrices Moderate\\nQuality High\\n56 minutes from Wall Street,\\ndirectly at station.\\n300 feet above sea level among\\nthe Westchester Hills.\\nSo are the lots on both sides\\nof it.\\nDetached houses, plenty of\\nfresh air and sunlight.\\nCity water, electric lights, ma-\\ncadam streets, police and fire\\nprotection, mail delivery, etc.,\\netc.\\nGood grammar school close\\nby, Yonkers High School.\\nNo other equally good proper-\\nty so cheap no other equally\\ncheap property so good.\\nFAIRVIEW AS AN INVESTMENT IS DESIRABLE.\\nBecause\\nNew York is Moving Toward It\\nNew York\\nis Fill^^\\nNever Grew so Fast as Now\\nThe l^apid Transit l^oad\\nIts Natural Advantages\\nBeing at a Station\\nIt is Now Cheap\\nIts Value Must Increase\\nGrowing Northward about one\\nmile a year.\\nExcept the three Northerly\\nWards and they have a greater\\npopulation than the City of\\nBoston.\\nNew York and its suburbs in-\\ncreased about 1,500,000 in ten\\nyears past.\\nWill immeasurably hasten the\\nNorthward growth of New\\nYork.\\nWill attract people to it.\\nIt will be quick to feel the\\neifect of increased population.\\nCannot decrease.\\n30", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "In Conclusion.\\nIf this booklet shall have given you a sufficiently com-\\nprehensive idea of Fairview so that you will come to us\\ndesiring- to see the property and to know more about it, it\\nwill have accomplished its mission.\\nIf you will come with us to see Fairview, it will show\\nfor itself what it is to-day, and if in addition you will care-\\nfully consider the outlook for the future, we believe that your\\njudgment will make you a buyer.\\n^^iC^S It is impracticable to publish prices, which will\\nof course be constantly advancing- with the devel-\\nopment of the property, but we shall ask only a\\nTerms, fair business profit, and having purchased Fairview\\nseveral years ago at a very advantageous figure we\\nare in a position to name very reasonable prices.\\nNor have we any fixed terms. We realize, that most in-\\nstalment schemes are carefully thought out to the end that the\\nbuyer, in one way or another pays dearly for the accommo-\\ndation, so we have avoided any schemes whatever. We\\nprefer to make a fair and reasonable price for a house or lots,\\nand accommodate the terms to the buyer s pocketbook. We\\ncan say here, however, that to the right people wc will make\\nterms as easy as anyone can afford to. If you have but little ready\\nmoney, tell us just how you are situated and we will endeavor\\nto accommodate you. We care more about selling- Fairview\\nto desirable people than about the amount they can pay\\ndown. Prices will be given upon application.\\nWe shall consider it a pleasure to go with you to see the\\nproperty at any time, and to let Fairview, by its manifest\\nadvantages, do the rest.\\nThe Manhattan Yonkcrs Land Co.\u00c2\u00bb Owners,\\n20 EAST 42d STKEET,\\nJ. H. GORDON, NEW YORK CITY.\\nGeneral Selling Agent.\\n31", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "SOME SUCCESSFUL PEOPLES\\nIDEAS OF REAL ESTATE\\nMRS. HETTY GREEN:\\nI think Real Estate is the best investment for people\\nwho have only a few thousand dollars and want to make\\nas much by it as they honestly can.\\nANDREW CARNEGIE;\\nAs I have said to workingmen and to ministers, college\\nprofessors, artists, musicians and physicians and all the\\nprofessional classes, Do not invest in any business con-\\ncern whatever the risks of business are not for such as\\nyou. Buy homes for yourselves first, and if you have\\nany surplus buy another lot or house or take a mortgage\\nupon one, or upon a railway, and let it be a first\\nmortgage, and be satisfied with moderate interest.\\nROSWELL P. FLOWER:\\nReal Estate is the best investment for small savings.\\nHENRY CLEWS:\\nBe wise while you have the chance. Invest in good\\nproperty lying close to New York, where the population,\\ngrowing mightily as it is, will need your property soon,\\nand will pay you a large price for it.\\nJOHN JACOB ASTOR:\\nThe Astor millions, were chiefly made, as is well known,\\nin Real Estate. Read what W. O. Stoddard says in his\\nMen of Achievement, regarding the policy of the first\\nJohn Jacob Astor, the founder of that vast fortune:\\nWhatever capital could be spared from other operations\\nhe continually invested in Real Estate, a little outside,\\nfor the greater part of the ideas of other buyers. Some\\nindeed, was for immediate improvement and he built\\nupon it, but more belonged to the city of the future\\nwhich his prophetic eyes were looking at.\\n32", "height": "3646", "width": "2176", "jp2-path": "fairviewyonkersn00manh_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "A\\nOCA\\nN\\nN\\nfr\\nR\\nD\\nin\\nW\\npr\\nha\\nof\\nR\\nof\\nous\\nha\\nni(\\nde\\nN\\nRE\\n\\\\SY\\nTHE\\nH. 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