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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 32, no. 809: September 15, 1883

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September 15, 1888 The Record and Guide. THE RECORD AND GUIDE. 191 Broadway, N. Y. TERMS: ONE HEXR, in advance^ SIX DOLLARS. Comnniiucations should be addressed to C. W. SWEET, 191 Broadway. J, T. LINDSEY, Business Manager. SEPTEMBER 15, 1883. For the accommodation of well-to-do people who are looking for apartments, we publish to-day a complete list of all the vacant suites of rooms, with the rents asked, in all the first-class apartment houses in this city. This list we propose to republish for several weeks to come. Owners, agents and janitors will confer a favor by notifying ue when an apartment becomes vacant and when re-rented., Tliis list is printed for the benefit of would-be tenants in first-class apartment houaes. Instead of beiiig forced to run about the city to see what is in the market, they can utilize the list in The Record AND Guide so aa to learn Just where to go and what price they will be expected to pay. The apartment houses are a distinctive feature of Neiv York life, and are growing in favor. A journal such as ours it theproper one to become the organ of this great real estate specialty. --------^—.—_-^ A Real Real Estate Exchange. On Wednesday last there was opened, at 41 Broadway, what ie called the "New York Real Estate and Trader's Exchange." Among the epeakerB who took part in the exercises were Algernon 3. Sul¬ livan, Major Pangbotn, Park-Com mission er Viele, and other well- known gentlemen. Real estate was the text of the speakers, but it must have struck Mr. Sullivan and the other orators aa somewhat singular that all the leading real estate dealers of New York and Brooklyn were conspicuous by their absence from the opening ceremonies'of the new Real Estate Exchange. The fact ia, this so-called exchange was organized by aome sharp and enterprising gentlemen who knew that New York ought to have an organized market for the transaction cf a real estate business. After they had completed their organization they tried to induce the leading real estate dealers to become members, but Pine street Trinity Building and the whole brokerage interest in realty would have nothing to do with an organization which they had no hand in creating. On that same Wednesday afternoon a meeting waa held in tbe office of The Record and Guide to organize a bona fide real estate exchange. Among the gentlemen present were E. H, Ludlow, Richard V. Harnett, H, H. Cammann, George H, Scott, of Scott