The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1918, Page 7

“RENT BOOSTS NOT JUSTIFIED - BY INCREASE IN VALUATIONS, ~ NEWYORK TAX FIGURES SHOW , Evening World treentigntion y Reveals no Excuse to Op- b press 1 Fenants. REDUCTION IN VALUES. Only One Section, the Grand } Central Area, Has Shown j Big Jump. Figures obtained by The Evening World to-day furnish indubitable booed that there is no justification @ general jacking up of rents in| Qbis city. Data obtained from the Department of Taxes prove that in- @tead of a general rise in real estate valuation during the last three years the city assessors have actually re- @uced them at the rate of approxi- Mately $100,000,000 a year. The investigation of realty values Paturally centred in Manhattan be- @ause it is from the rent payers of borough that the great num- ITCHING BURNING BLISTERS ON ARMS Irritated by Scratching. Could Not Sleep. 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In many in- stances the reductions in valuations |have been so marked that despite | this year's jump tn the tax rate the property Owners pay less taxes this year than they did a year ago. ‘The figures presented here form an eloquent indictment of landlords who have boosted rents as bigh as 10 and 20 per cent, and even more, during the last three years. | In order that a rent payer may |clearly understand just how property | valuations stand in his particular section of Manhattan, the borough Is divided into districts. There are many landlords in the district bound- ed by 40th Street, Central Park, East River and 96th Street who claim there has been a tremendous increase in property valuations in that part of the city. They use this assertion as an argument\in favor of rent in-| creases far above the 5 per cent mark, It is true that the section above outlined has had a big increase in property valuations, but the increase was made in one confined spot which is known on the tax books as the | Grand Central area. Nowhere else tn | the vast territory between East 40th |Street and East 96th Street have | valuations been appreciably raised. LONE SECTION WHERE VALUA- TIONS HAVE BEEN INCREASED. ‘The Grand Central district includes the immediate neighborhood of the |raflrond station and Park Avenue to about Eighty-fourth Street. Here are |located many high-class apartment houses. The remainder of the dis- trict 1s one of the most cosmopolitan in the world, It includes the homes |of Fifth Avenue millionaires as well the old fashfoned tenements and flats and apartments occupied by people of moderate circumstances. |It therefore includes every class of |landiord and its rent problem may be said to be the most interesting of ee part of Manbattan, It will likely |Ngure prominently in the aldermante | investigation, Another big district of rent payers jextends from West Ninety-sixth |Street to Weat sist Street. ‘The as rents here range from moderate to quite low. Many charges of “rent jacking” have been made by per- is area. The records | Sons living in th: Tux Department show con- lof the SHE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918. clusively that the valuations on which property owners in this dis- trict pay taxes have been reduced Nearly $21,000,000 during the past three years, The asscaved valuation of property here was $451,763,920 in 1916, whereas the present ‘valuation is only $431,005,220. ‘The Aldermen | who represent the locality are mak- ing a rigid investigation and will soon submit many Interesting tacts concerning deliberate profiteering. ‘The next residential district to be considered roughly extends from Hast 96th Street to the Harlem River. In 1916 the assessed valuation of the property was $231,7 In 1917 the] property owners we y ® valuation of only § ear auere is a further reduction 26 In other words, stead of an increase in valuations in this section where profiteoring also charged, there has been an actual Waste 1, RENTS WERE RAISED, VALUA- TIONS NOT INCREASED. The Washington Heights section, | from West 156th Street to the Harlem River, has not been subjected to an uations. The actual increase 1s $29,- 200. Translated into taxes it would would have to club together and pay their share of $698. Divide that among the owners of apartments on Wash- ington Heights and you g nm idea of what little effect the crease has on their pocketb -jand West %th Street, Stop the Returned Goods Abuse and Eliminate, Waste, Decreased iiniter Colette: to valuations between West 40th Street but experta in the Tax Department say this is due is principally to new buildings and not 1917. two increases in the valuations of it to | reduction in realty valuations of $,- |appreciable increase in property val-| § mean that all the property owners | There has been a steady increase tn! hood of 159th Street between Broadway the ebktes pager bli No goods wil | ta Feesived far crediecer exchange that are not offered to us within seven days of receipt. This apply to merchandise that other reasons. the Lines—”’ Essential leads one al' the way A good morale at ‘over there,” |} Ultra Modes. BLGRi veloc as r y Sheets, 72x108 Reduced to $6.50 pair lifting foree. And the Victrola veryone, everywhere, to Terms of Payment Broadway at John Wanamaker Victrolas |Cash Price Payment | Beanthiy, Full size (Type XVII $275 | $10.00 | $10.00 Full size (Type XVI 225 | «10.00 10.00 Medium large size (Type XIV 175 7.50 Medium size (Type XI-A 115. 5.00 Small size (Type X—-A 90 5.00 Portable size (without cab- inet Type IX 60 5.00 Portable size (Type VIII | made in oak only 50 5.00 nth, New York tonnes 29 Cretonne Print: colorings, covers. strictly nonreturnable basis for sanitary or Table Cloths ALGB Gs ccreeseesesie ent 100 doz. Hemstitched Union Huck Towels Reduced to $2.95 dozen Imported Hemstitched Cotton Sheets and Pillow Cases Manufactured in Ireland—extra quality and finish. rly 7,000 yards, the accumulation of for Bedrooms. heavy enough to mz Matting Utility Boxes rule does not is sold on a Late models, of the accepted shapes, in superior quality straws, in black and fashionable colors: Mushrooms—Sailors—Poke Effects Continentals—Turbans—Flaring Hats. Included in the collection are many original French pattern shapes, in Hats that every discriminating woman will appreciate. Fourth Floor Fine Irish Linens Reduced Special items from regular stock at reduced prices for this sale only. Napkins to Match . $5.95] 20 inch si shesisiseesemdenn laa inch 6 Also Sheets, 90x103 Reduced to $8.50 pair Becond Floor A Special Purchase New Cretonnes Secured at Such Concessions That These Prices Are Less Than Wholesale Cost. should command. in pretty light In qualities many in ri excellent slip ake Rooms, in Fifth Floor An Important Untrimmed Millinery Sale Lisere and Real Milan Hats— $1.95 and $3.95 100 pairs White Blankets Reduced to $7.50 and $9.75 pair i small lots, bought under most favorable conditions from one of America’s leading makers of artistic Cre- Handicapped by the dye shortage and this factory assembled its stock on hand and offered them to us at a fraction of the prices such Cretonnes Four Specially Priced Groups, featuring all the wanted color effects, strictly new patterns to harmonize with most advanced decorative schemes. $2.75, $3.25 and $7.00. buildings already standing, latory building near by whows 1917 Many landiords have argued that valuation of $53,000 was cut down to! the sudden jump in the tax rate this $52,000 this year, year is to a great extent responsible The inquirer next turned hia atten- for increases in rent ranging from 5 tion to 148th Street between Amater- | to 20 per cent. The tax rate in Man-| dam Avenue and Broadway, There | hattan was but $2.04 on overy $100 in ation in 1916 and it dropped to had on the $100 valuation in 1917. Yet $2 0. On Amsterdam Avenue be- rents were raised during those years. tween 16lst and 162d Streets a two- An official of the Tax Department | story frame house wae reduced from offered to prove that he could open | $17,000 to $16, the Manhattan valuation books any-| "You could open our books haphas- where and prove that valuations have! ard in practically every section of |been reduced. Instead, a book was Manhattan but one or two,” sald the opened by one who knew nothing of | tax official, “and you would find the its contents. He happenal to strike | conditions about the aame. The Tax Jthe page dealing with the neighbor | Department lowered valuations to Al estate men because of the se in the tax rate this year. Lowered valuations neutralize the effect of a higher tax rate. A prop- orty owner cannot conscientiously raixe his rent more than 6 por cent. beer, dropped from $23,000 to and Amsterdam Avenue. 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