The Roosevelt
(New York City)
(New York United Hotels, Inc.)
Twenty-Year 6% 1947 Sinking Fund Debentures
Amount: $5,500,000 ($241,000 retired), $5,259,000 outstanding.
Dated: February 1, 1927.
Maturity: February 1, 1947.
Interest; February and August 1st.
Denominations: $1,000 and $500.
Taxes: 2% Federal—Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
Redemption: 105 to 1932; then 104 to 1937; then 103 to 1942;
then 102 to 1945; thereafter 101.
Trustee: Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co.
Stock warrants: Each $1,000 carries right to purchase before
Feb. 1, 1932, 10 shares of no-par Class A stock, 2 shares at
$40; 2 at $45; 2 at $50, 2 at $55 and 2 at $60—$500 in same
ratio.
Assessed 1930:
Tand ......o0n.n $5,250,000
Land and building .......ooovee 0 eaeines 11,050,000
Appraised: 1927—Brown, Wheelock: Harris, Vought & Co,
INC. eee treet ee eran ene seaneeaneeeans $9,500,000
Prior lien on fee reduced to... 1,950.000
Property: The Obligor owns the leasehold estate in plot of
ground one entire city block square, in the Grand Central
district, bounded by Madison Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue,
46th Street and 47th Street: and the 21-story hotel erected
thereon.
New York Central interests own the fee, and the lease runs
to 1943 with the right to two 2l-year renewal periods,
subject to lessor’s right, at end of first renewal, to purchase
the building at its then value. The ground rental amounts
to $280,000 annually. The fee estate is subject to a mort-
gage originally $3,000,000, the proceeds of which Lessee
advanced to Obligor as part of the cost of constructing the
building. This mortgage is the debt of the New York
Central interests, not the Obligor. The New York Central
interests have reduced this mortgage to its present amount
of $1,950,000. The advance to Obligor is to be repaid dur-
ing the first 21-year term, and is defined in the lease as