The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to the renewal of the leases of premises northwest corner of St. Ann's avenue and One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, The Bronx; No. 599 East One Hundred and Fortieth street, The Bronx, and premises on Eighteenth avenue and Sixty-seventh street, Borough of Brooklyn, for the Board of Education: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: JUNE 13, 1904 SIR-The Board of Education, at a meeting held May 25, 1904, adopted the following resolution: 66 Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be and they hereby are requested to authorize renewals of the leases of the following-named premises for "school purposes, for the terms and at the rentals specified": Premises northwest corner St. Ann's avenue and One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, The Bronx. Owner, Wm. W. Caswell, care Warren & Skillin, No. 96 Broadway, City. Public School 30. District 23. Lease expires October 15, 1904. Term, to July 1, 1905. Annual rental, $420. Premises No. 599 East One Hundred and Fortieth street, The Bronx. Owners, M. S. & H. M. Sterling, No. 171 Alexander avenue, The Bronx. Public School 22. District 23. Lease expires October 15, 1904. Term, one year and privilege of renewal for one year. Annual rental, $1,800 and water tax. Premises Eighteenth avenue and Sixty-seventh street, Brooklyn. Owner, Margaret V. McNulty, Parkville P. O., L. I. Public School 112. District 37. Lease expires August 1, 1904. Term, one year. Annual rental, $1,500. The Bureau of Buildings and the Department of Health having reported favorably on their condition for school purposes, I would respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt a resolution authorizing renewals of the leases above mentioned for the terms and at the rentals specified. Respectfully submitted for approval, MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby approve of and consent to the execution by the Board of Education of renewals of leases to the City of the following-described premises: 1. The store floor and part of the cellar in the building on the northwest corner of One Hundred and Forty-fourth street and St. Ann's avenue, Borough of The Bronx, for a term from October 15, 1904, to July 1, 1905, at a rental at the rate of four hundred and twenty dollars ($420) per annum, payable quarterly, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease. William W. Caswell, lessor. 2. Premises No. 509 East One Hundred and Fortieth street, Borough of The Bronx, for a term of one year from October 15, 1904, with the privilege of a renewal for an additional year, at an annual rental of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) and water tax, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease. M. S. & H. M. Sterling, lessors. 3. Premises on the northwest corner of Eighteenth avenue and Sixty-seventh street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, for a term of one year from August 1, 1904, at an annual rental of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), payable quarterly, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease. Margaret V. McNulty, lessor, -the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said rents fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such leases be made. The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to a renewal of the lease of premises on Church street, Kreischersville, Borough of Richmond, for the Board of Education: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: JUNE 15, 1904. SIR-The Board of Education, at a meeting held on June 8, 1904, adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be and they hereby are "requested to authorize the renewals of the leases of the following-named premises "at the rentals and for the terms specified": Premises, Church street, Kreischersville, Richmond. Owner, St. Peter's German Evangelical Church, Jacob J. Ganss, President. Annex to Public School 4. District 46. Date of expiration, November 1, 1904. Term, one year. Annual rental, $300. The Department of Health and the Bureau of Buildings having reported favorably on the condition for school purposes, I would respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt a resolution authorizing the renewal on the same terms and conditions as in existing lease. Respectfully submitted for approval, MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby approve of and consent to the execution, by the Board of Education, of a renewal of the lease to the City from the St. Peter's German Evangelical Church, Jacob J. Ganss, President, of the southerly room on the ground floor of the St. Peter's German Evangelical Church, Church street, Kreischersville, Borough of Richmond, for a term of one year from November 1, 1904, at an annual rental of three hundred dollars ($300), payable quarterly, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such lease be made. The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. JUNE 17, 1904.] The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to a renewal of the lease of premises at Nos. 541 and 543 Leonard street, Borough of Brooklyn, for the Board of Education: Hon. Edward M. GROUT, Comptroller: JUNE 15, 1904. SIR-The Board of Education, at a meeting held on June 8, 1904, adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be and they are hereby requested to authorize a renewal of the lease of the first floor and part of the 'cellar in the premises Nos. 541 and 543 Leonard street, Borough of Brooklyn, occu"pied as an annex to Public School 59, for a term of one year from October 13, 1904, at an annual rental of $500, and on the same terms and conditions as in the "existing lease. Owner, St. Paul's Church of the Evangelical Association, Charles "Kanscht, President, No. 200 Oakland street, Brooklyn." The Department of Health and Bureau of Buildings having reported favorably on the condition for school purposes, I would respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt a resolution authorizing a renewal of this lease on the same terms and conditions as in existing lease. Respectfully submitted for approval, MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby approve of and consent to the execution, by the Board of Education, of a renewal of the lease to the City from the St. Paul's Church of the Evangelical Association, Charles Kanscht, President, of the first floor and part of the cellar in the premises Nos. 541 and 543 Leonard street, Borough of Brooklyn, for a term of one year from October 13, 1904. at an annual rental of five hundred dollars ($500), payable quarterly, and on the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease-the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such lease be made. The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to a renewal of the lease of premises known as the A. M. E. Zion Church, at Rossville, Borough of Richmond, for the Board of Education: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: JUNE 15, 1904. SIR-The Board of Education, at a meeting held on June 8, 1904, adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be and they hereby are requested to authorize a lease from month to month of the premises known as A. M. E. "Zion Church, Rossville, Borough of Richmond, used as Public School 31, from Sep 66 “tember 9, 1904, at a rental at the rate of $400 per annum, payable monthly, and on the same terms and conditions as in the existing lease. Lessor, A. M. E. Zion Church, Rossville, S. I." 66 The Department of Health and Bureau of Buildings, having reported favorably on the condition for school purposes, I would respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund authorize a renewal of this lease from month to month, from September 9, 1904; otherwise, upon the same terms and conditions as are in existing lease. Respectfully submitted for approval, MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby approve of and consent to the execution, by the Board of Education, of a lease to the City, from month to month, commencing September 9, 1904, of the premises known as the A. M. E. Zion Church, at Rossville, Borough of Richmond, at a rental at the rate of four hundred dollars ($400) per annum, payable monthly, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease; lessor, the A. M. E. Zion Church— the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such lease be made. The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to an amendment to resolution authorizing a lease of premises No. 59 Madison street, Borough of Manhattan, for the use of the Second District Municipal Court: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: JUNE 16, 1904. SIR-The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund on May 23, 1904, adopted a resolution leasing the premises No. 59 Madison street, Borough of Manhattan, for court purposes, the lessor to furnish light, heat and janitor service. The lessor refuses to furnish janitor service, and will not execute lease with the clause contained therein, and I would therefore respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund amend the resolution leasing No. 59 Madison street by striking out the words "and janitor service." Respectfully submitted for approval, MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. Resolved, That the resolution adopted by this Board at meeting held May 23, 1904, authorizing the lease of premises No. 59 Madison street, Borough of Manhattan, for the use of the Second District Municipal Court, for a period of three years from the date of occupation, at an annual rental of three thousand dollars ($3,000), payable quarterly; the lessor to furnish light, heat and janitor service, and to keep the outside -pair during the term of the lease, be and the same is hereby amended words “and janitor service." wat was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. . nowing petition was received from John Waters for a release or quit claim City's interests in a portion of the old Cripplebush road, in the Borough of ayl: In the Matter of application of John Waters for a eed to part of the Cripplebush road, Situate in The City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn. he Comptroller of The City of New York: The petition of John Waters respectfully shows: That your petitioner is a resident of No. 396a Monroe street, in The City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn. That your petitioner, by deed dated October 12, 1867, and recorded October 17, 807, the office of the Register of Kings County in Liber 784 of Conveyances at Dage 254, became, and now is, the owner in fee simple of the following-described premises, to wit: All those two certain lots, pieces or parcels of land situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, Kings County, New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Myrtle avenue distant one hundred and sixty-five feet easterly from the point formed by the intersection of the easterly side of Nostrand avenue with the said northerly side of Myrtle avenue, and running thence northerly parallel with Nostrand avenue one hundred and seven feet nine inches; thence easterly parallel with Myrtle avenue fifty feet; thence southerly parallel to Nostrand avenue one hundred and seven feet nine inches to the said northerly side of Myrtle avenue, and thence westerly along the said northerly side of Myrtle avenue fifty feet to the point or place of beginning. That your petitioner entered into the possession of said premises, and in the year 1873 or 1874 erected buildings thereon, located on the Myrtle avenue line of naid premises and covering the whole of the width thereof and to a depth of twenty five feet That your petitioner's possession has been peaceful and undisturbed and no claim to sad premises or any part thereof has been made by any person or corporation. That your petitioner is now informed that an old road known as "the Crippleharsh road" crossed your petitioner's property diagonally, in the front or southerly part thereof, and that a small portion of said road is embraced within the dimensions of your petitioner's property, as above set forth. |