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HEAL *STATE FOR SALE OR TO LET | i^^^^^ >^»^^^ W^^^Z^ RESERVATION BLANK no Deposit required RESERVE one of the 125 Residence Plots in Jamaica Estates for me at present prices and grant me TEN DAYS from to-day in which to make selection or to decide whether I wish to purchase or not. (Signed) Address IWP«HtT&VT.— Cwt •of this I>arrr*ti«a Blank «** mail t« Tfaothr I» TTa^m*. r*i^<il- ■■■■!» »:*al~. « MhrMr noildias. »w York. CMttr* m* | I "nTl'll v:u fee life t> tb» oriW la crhk-b rr<rri»«l. tlrtlcr — -ad by *artlr?t MMM. Transportation does not create population— it locates population. The Brooklyn Bridge added half a million to the population of Brooklyn The subway made the Bmm multiplied realty values by two and live almost overnight. When Manhattan's crowded business centers moved north the homes oMWanhattan s crowds should have ompfci the corresponding residential districts north and east of Br—klyn along the East R-.vcr. That move has been delayed twenty years because d inadequate transportation. The lummsj of 191Q will sec lomesecker's migration unparalleled in the history of Htm York, Values are created by the crowd, and the crowd moves alcr.g the line of km resistance and gj greatest comfort. The Largest, Fastest, Best Equipped and Most Comfortable This will be a greater event in the history of Sew York City than was the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge or of the Manhattan Subway. It will give to New York City her ffitr *t Adequate Ernst and West suburban transportation. It will give to residents of long Island a transit service superior in speed and comfort to every thir? sjnj in this great metropolitan district. The Pennsylvania four-tunnel system to hong Island will have an express and local capacity of more than one hundred trains an hour. Realty values advance with trun+poruition. PFNNSYLVANIA TERMINAL. MANHATTAN Mail your Reservation Blank at once to get your name registered. Then visit the property and make a selection. You will have ten days in which to decide whether you wish to buy or not. and if you make a purchase you can take three years in which to corrplete payment. The prices per city <? £7 • let are as low as v " ' I ** J AMAICA Jamaica Estates is a residential park within New York City, in the centre of the Borough of Queens. This park contains five hundred acres of wooded hills and ravines. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being «Kpended m parkways, sidewalks, sewers, landscape gardening and other **«utify.ng development work. The property has a mile frontage on Hill ed* Avenue, tht leading autorr.obile boulevard through this district. Directly south of this boulevard, and bordering on it, is the most beautiful residential section of the old town of Jamaica (now part of New York City), Hi of 30,000 population, with schools, churches, banks, shops of every kind and all city conveniences. The Borough of Queens is closer to Manhattan Island than either Brooklyn or The Bronx. It lies right alongside the very center of Man hattan—that part of the island which to-day is doing the biggest things in building and has the biggest crowd, the district between Fourteenth and F <wty-second Streets. The new Pennsylvania Terminal is at Thirty-third ■*•« and the New York Central Terminal is at Forty second Street. The Borough of Queens has had up to the present time the most antiquated transportation of any district around New York. Big things «re in process. In siaty days the Pennsylvania will open its four-track tunnels and begin - metric express service from Broadway to Jamaica, making the time in een minutes and giving the finest transportation service the world has The new terminal at Jamaica is to be the distributing point for all Long The Pennsylvania- service, the new Queensboro Bridge. the Steinway Tunnel at F^ty-second Street, not yet opened, and a score enj electnc lines now operctMf or pro.ee ted connect the Jamaica district t investor is ignorant of the AfcSfi happening m New Yoik who cannot see in Jamaica Estates the greatest pssj estate opportunity of the present decade— an opportunity the equal oi which may not occur again in a lifetime. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR TO LET |A»\». l«l AND. The Pennsylvania Railroad will open between Manhattan and Lohg Island ■* ,^ m^^^r s^ m^ '^ M^ -^m^-mmi '^m **»<• ** • • • • *^^ "^m# ESTATES NKW-VOHK HAII.Y THIIUNi:. S\TriM>AY. MAKCII 10. 1010 REAL ESTATE FOR sale ORTOLCT No Deposit Required reservations of residential plots in Giri:n City Estates and in Jamaica Estates will be entered in the order in which Reservation Bbnfcs arc received. Plots selected at once can be red for ten days without a deposit Only a lota! of 250 plots are available at present prices, which are not more than one-fifth of the prices asked for similarly located properties east and north and west. This is a realty' investment opportunity' which may not occur again in a lifetime TRANSPORTATION TO LONG ISLAND TO-DAY TIME TO JAMAICA 18 MINUTES frcm HERALD SQUARE All residence plots in J A M A I C A ESTATES and m GARDEN CITY ESTATES (except 125 plots in each prop erty) are to-day WITHDRAWN FROM THE MARKET and will not again be available for purchase until the date of the opening to the public of the PENNSYL VANIA EAST RIVER TUNNELS, when all prices will be readjusted and advanced in keeping with the actual advances in realty values which this rapid transit epoch is sure to create. The 250 residence plots now available for purchase at present prices have been very carefully chosen as to de sirability of location. TEN-DAY RESER VATIONS (without deposit) will be entered for these 250 available plots in the order in which received. This will give intending customers ample time in which to visit the two properties and to decide definitely a? to purchasing. CUT OUT EITHER RESER VAIiON BLANK and mail to-day with your name and address to Timothy L. Woodruff, President UAKDEN CITY ESTATES JAMAICA DTATn Cambridge Building, 33d Street and sth Avenue, New York. WKAL ESTATE FOR SALE ORJOJ.tT LOX. IWLAXO. SEE NOTICE BELOW. JAMAICA ESTATES (Entrance) 1111 S iU£ REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR TO LET |.l)Mi INLAND TIME TO GARDEN CITY 28 MINUTES from HERALD SQUARE Garden City estates ■t i Garden City was founded by A. T. Stewart, the founder of department store business in New York. Under his direction were planted the beaut ful trees that now border its attractive roadways. His widow erected the Garden City Cathedral in memory of her husband, and endowed the two famous Episcopal schools. St. Paul's for Boys and St. Mary's for Girls. The Garden City of to-day has larger interests for the people of this great metropolitan area. It is now a convenient suburb of New York. A few years ago some 500 acres of the Stewart estate were purchased by a corporation known as the Garden City Estates, for development into a modern residential district. A beautiful railway station was erected in the heart of the property. Street and sewer and sidewalk building and all operations of high-grade, up-to-date improvements were engaged in. Beautiful homes were erected; an interesting and cultured rnmnwniij was established, and to-day Garden City Estates is widely known as one of the most desirable home centers wi;hin easy access ct Manhattan. Garden City Estates has every modern convenience: macadamized streets, concrete side walks and curbs, a sanitary system of sewers, a drinking water unexcelled, gas and electricity, telephone and telegraph, churches, ■ eke oh. the best suburban hotel within fifty miles of New York, two famous golf links, an attractive country club and restrictions against objectionable features of every kind. Garden City Estates has had direct electric rapid felHst hi -ore ftaj a year; fast electric trains connecting at Flatbush §ajnmm Station. Brook lyn, with the Manhattan-Brooklyn Subway eaptesses. It. is also on the direct line of the new Pennsylvania rapid transit service to Long Island. and it is officially stated that the running time MMSI BmM W»fmm and Garden City Estates will not exceed twenty-e^ht minutes REAL ESTATE P O R SALE OR TO LET RESERVATION BLANK ' NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED RESERVE one of the 123 Residence Plots in Garden City Estates for ire at present prices and grant me TEN DAYS from to-day m which to make selection or to decide whether I wish to purchase or hot. ............ • Address ...~Z~^ZZZZ will b«« made In tao oriler In which r-r-Ued. IWtrr xenU by rnrll?^t mall. GARDEN CITY ESTATES Station i Mail your Reservation Blank at once to get ymm name registered. Then visit the property and make a selection. Yon will have ten days in which to decide whether you wish to buy or not, and if you make a purchase you can take three years in which to complete payment. The prices per city (?"QA lot are as low as m t}Oa\J REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR TOJ.ET I.IIM, I>I..VM> ••is*