Newspaper Page Text
U BRONX PARCELS IN DEMAND INCREASE 1\ TBADtNG IS THE BOBOVGH CLEARLY >UO\i S BY SALES MADE LAST WEEK. Kern High Record Rental for 34th Street Building, Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues— Builders ami Investors Prominent Along the Drive. Deals In th* upper West Side districts were feat ures la«; week of the trading In the local real •state market. Tnare were many buyers for prop erties on Washington Heights, especially for vacant plots Bfft^ip a short distance of the North River. J, belter demand for improved and vacant property In The Bronx -was also a feature of the week, ■■*:<. of the largest Bronx transactions being the sale ■C the Mott Haven apartments. N<_>. 425 to 453 ast 137 th ftreet and No. 42S to «6 East 135 th street, be tween Willis avenue and Brown riace. The plot on -which the house stands has a frontage of 150 feet on each street and a depth •' W feet. Lots - at South Orange, N. J.. were given in part pay ment. Another Bronx deal last week was the sale of a plot of three lota on the west side of Westehesier ■.venae, 92 feet south of Tremoiu avenue, and ot three lots on the north «id« of 175 th street. 310 feet west of Nelson avenue. They were given by John Davis In part payment for four forty-foot apart ment houses c:: the north side of :37th street. 218 feet east of Cyjuess avenue. I* S. and A M. Bing Mrete the seller* of the apartment houses. The Increased demand for Bronx property was clearly indicated at the auction Eai« of the Trask estste lots, at 174 th street and the Southern Boule vard. i' c at- th« Real Estate Exchange sales- POPULAB TYPE 6 OF APABTMBNT HOUSES. >COS. * AND » BAST 107 TH STRKTrT. * six story apartment house. Sold last week by Arnold. Brrne *■ Baumann for Her nian Wfa\*r. rnon-.f. Kos 14 and i« Vesey street <>n Wednesday by Bryan I. Keimelly. Higher prices were paid for many lots than some well known real estate .experts thought they would bring. The total sum reaJized at the sale was gfie.'W and for a lot nt th<> r-ou*heast -■ •'■?:• street and the South ern Boulevard $24,750 was peid It wat the largest amount ever obtained it a ona^dajr sale of Bronx Ms Amoi.g the buyers were scores of persons whop* names a:«^ not familiar In realty trading. Since January plans have been liled for improving suaaa numbers of Bites In The Bronx with dwelling nouses. *V>re buildings, fiathouses and factories. NO. I WEST S7TH STItKLT. A four story and basement bouse, on a lot 25i95.S feet. Sold lust we^k by Dnuglaw Robim Charles S. Brown & Co.. for Mrs. A O. Allen and Ibis bcildlag activity is likely to be conslder _» «■ My eniarged as a result of the Trask estate sale ami o;her rect-nt Bronx transactions. DEALS iN MIDTOWN ZONES. Tr.frv ;Uso was. a fslr num'^r of buyers in nud "♦■torri lorn* \art \v*ek. and f=«-veral leases -of central .. *itee or. Manhattan Island were made &i n> -w {*_ record Sr^f**. Tr* Jletrojiole Hotel was tak'.n *-. cr fraaVtbe Cnited Chemist Company under a long 1-»:;*?1 -»:;*? i* tn«- L«. A. Staulta Cigar Coin| any, ihe Bet yearly rental !<>r tlie term being &/>."*>. Tnis property wi» l«-as>t-«] several months ai;o by f*- Eaei Cntted «*.iemisi Company from the Cue Mtate - at an annual' net rental uf Bo,Otf>. In 31th Mit-*-t, l.iv.en Kittj .mi Sixth kveuuee. a UnildliiK on * S-tottt Wv.au leased f»r n i»e:i..d of twenty ;.e*rt, el a totcJ ic::ij.i lor lliC ' terra «->f SSAOOO. " BeVesJ «>v. no. 1 * -if £rcj»eriy In mWto*i< dections •3 lUruifO i>:< m:i.«.uiy v i:.~ Xniv&ing »f tb« week by ■ culuraU:g: tlivlr plots. !>JUgLaa Kobln*>on. Charles .".' 6. Si-oR-n & Co. sold fur Mrs. A. O. Allen to a. Mri W-s«=on No. 3 West 37th street.* Mrs. Tlw soa also otrtia the premises No. 1, adjoining. The | nroocrty comprise two four story 4wemns;Jio«««. I occupying a riot OOxSS.9 I**l They have been al tered fcr business use The price paid for No. 3 M « considerably over $125.00^ Brodj. AdU-r & | Koch bought No .- West 30ft. street, a four story ■ dwelling house, on a lot 25x32 feet. They recently bought No. 39 to 43 West =Oth street. The com bined parcels have a frontage of 107 feet and a j depth of 92 feet. T j Trading hi the Drive has been a feature ol the | realty buatnea transacted since the fall season. I Last week a market was found for the Hudson, a seven Btorj apartment house at the south cor- ; ncr of Sslh street and Riverside Drive. The prop- j erty was bought by George C. Engel from Bernard C McKenna. The house Is on a plot fronting .-2 feet on the Drive and 89.9 feet on the street. The buyer gave In part payment parcels In th€ lower , East Side. Abwut two months ago the Charles j Hensle Realty Company sold to Andrew P. Mor lson the Imperial Arms, a large apartment house at the northeast corner of 13Sth street and the , Drive Thai house occupies a plot of six lots, j Mr. Hensle took a three year lease of the prop- i erty from Morison at an annual rental ofCS,«W. j The block front on the Drive from lGlst to laid ; THE WALUXGFORn. A five story apartment house, No. 2"? West 106 th street. Bold last week by William H. Falconer to- the Washing ton Arch Realty Company. street, comprising about fourteen lots, was also sold about two months ago, by M. and 1.. Hess for tli«- Empire Realty Corporation to Charles H. Rosenthal. It was held at $300,000. The site has a frontage of 383 feel on 152 d street and 145 feet on the Drive. Last week Mr Rosenthal sold the southeast corner of 152 d street and tlie Drive to a bulkier, who will erect on the plot an elevator apartment house. The plot to be improved has a frontape.of 140 feet on the street and 104 feet on tlie Drive. The Fowler 'ourt. a seven story elevator apart ment house being built at the north corner of AI. ESTATE ZONKS IN ACTIVE RE NOB. 521 AND 5O WEST IS6TH STREET Two Bye story doubJ** OMhousec Bold w«-ek by James X Hoi gust C Kanz U2th v * Street and Riverside Drlvr was recently* bought by Philip Livingston from Oalder & Kassolt. !.« property was held at $&•).«*». The iiouae If on a plot 104. 4x141. Irregular. This parcel formed a part of the block front between tilth and "...'-, streets, fronting In i h« Drive, which Wllilam Wal dorf - tor boW In February, 1908, to Bloc & Uing at a price slightly less than $3.V>,ofio. Charles M. Schwab at one time considered the purcria.se of the property ;is a site f«r a house Tor hi* own occupancy. 1. Randolph Jacobs & i.v aico recently wild a plot TfiilOO if. t -ii the Drive. *« feet' north • ..» 116Ui street for the rftat»- Realty ami Mortgage «*oni;>any. Oh liiat plotvis to i«- erected mi «-lKiit •-toy.v apirtiiu-Kt liiius-. ■■.-.■• a • tljt"- ; in: on the- mjuth is being built «i twelve story apartment b««use- by tin- 1-Mrterflejd Ot'tistruiUoj^.-Cotupajii', vi:.l'- tic abutting j/ro|i< rty ftp Clan mint avenue ia to be Improved wjlji eight and nine story n' u ?ea l»i f.-.ti n » Ur»itii«-rii. The Hensle Construction Company recently filed NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. APHTL 11. l^ v Auction Sales of Real Estate^ Originator of Special Sales Days Special Sales Day Thursday, April 15, 1909, At 12 o'clock Boon. EXCHANGE SALESROOM. M Vesey 9 t . KM -York City. - Absolute Executors' Sale WOODCOCK ESTATES, By order of Lea Luquer, Morris S. Thompson and Charles G. Koss, Executors. MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN PROPERTY Borough of Manhattan. Borough of Brooklyn. 416-418-420-422 459 Sackett St. --, j ,*/•« d.~-^**4- i Two story ar.4 basement brick and brown stone East 26th Street. | iJ&K xxsar* "* "°" One 4 story and one 3 story brick Buildings. | S. 'W. Cor. HerkilTier «ith two story brick Building In rear. Size or | .... plot. n00x9 5 .9.; ■ «i-»xlU 4^4- St and Utica Ay " 8 West 113 th M; L Ten Lots, on Plot Size Three story and basement brick private dwell- « -%c». IOC A •nc with one story frame extension in rear Size, IxOXIOO.O. ■: Gxiou4l. JOQfh con remain on mortgage for 1, 2 or 3 years at 5%. Titi« insurance policies of the Lawyers' Title Insurance A Trust Co. rKtt. GEORGE FLINT . WARREN. JR., ATTORNEY FOR EXECUTORS. 256 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Trustees' Sale Estate of Mott S. Cannon, Deceased, By Order of Ulysses A. Cannon and Howard M. Cannon. Trustees. N. W. Cor. Third ! 480 Third Ay. a . i* -"V"* A *"• a. Three story and cellar brick Tenement . with A\T ALp 9 Jf\ Wf i one slire and one story extension. Sirs of lot, r\\ • iX jLjL\M. *w7l» 24.8x100 (KNOWN AS THIRD AVENtrE AND 1«1 -163 i \T \\T C f\f 1I4" li Four story «nd cellTr brick bulldlDC. with thres 'N.W. ' Cor. lltn 400 FiVhth Ay v - * 47th St. »"^T UJtlllll i~». ▼ • (KNOWN A 5"643. «*7. «4t> AND «51 ELEVENTH Tw« i'ton- brick BulldW with one .tore. Sue ' AVENUE AND 601-fIOS WEST 47TH STREET. • -• IP' 2r.i1 00. Fh« Lots, 1008 on avenue and 128 feet on !r*t!;e heart of the Penna. Ter. Section. i street. t BtA/V ran remain en mortgage for 3 ye«r» on the 3d and «th are. property «nd 60% on th. t^JfO llth ■ T *' property. TITLE INSURANCE policies of the lAwyecs 1 Tit;« Insurance and Trust Co. FREE G. H. Hinnau & Wellesley W. Gage. Attys., 165 Broadway. SAME DAY Hotel Schuyler (Known by Nos. 57-63 West 45th St.) ™" yine »tnr» brtek hotel, with 10th »<ory 1" rear, ceotalnios IBS rooms, with three #l»<"trte ele»at«r» to building. Base «f plot, 35x100.5. lour Rtorr and baoement. with cellar, brick private dirclllnK. with three *U>ry aad baaement ntenMon. Site of lot. 15.9x100.11. — — ■ Telephones. 741-742-743-744-745 Cortlandt. JOSEPH P. DAY, AUCt'r, 31 Nassau St., N. Y. City. plans for the erection of two six story apartment houses on a plot at the southeast corner of 136 th street and the Drive at a cost of J250.0C0. They will he built from plans by Schwartz & Gross. Mr*. Louise F. Mahoney recently bought from the estate of Charles G. Havens a plot at the north corner Of Riverside Drive and 96th street, with a frontage of 109.1 feet on the Driv and 51.8 feet on the street. She sold It. together with an adjoining plot lOOx 100.11 t«-et. on <n>th street, to the Densmore-Cornpton Building Company, which will erect a large co operative apartment house on the site. Another larße sale of a plot, on the Drive recent ly reported was that of the six 'story elevator apartment house No. 110 Riverside Drive, north corner of 83d street. It is on a plot 57.3x83.8x ir regular. Adjoining the property on t!ioi north are the Gainsborough, a seven story apartment house, and The Turrets, another seven story apartment bouse. At the. south corner of 99th street and the Drive a ten story apartment house Is to be built by the West Side Construction Company, at a cost '• of 080,400, from plans by George F. Pelham. At the northeast corner of 150 th street and the Drive • six story apartment house Is being built by M. Goldberg, at a cos: of $150,000. from plans by Neville & Bane. It will occupy a plot 108.9x112 feet. In one of the largest trades reported this. year, a group of sir story apartment houses known as the Cromwell Apartments ripuif.l. The houses are on the north side of 137 t h. street, extending from Broadway to the Drive. The property was pur chased by Simon E. & Max E. Bernhelmer from the Transit Realty Company and the Charter Con struction, Company, both of which companies .are controlled by L. 8. & A. M Blng The deal in volved property valued at $2,500,000. Messrs Hern l.i Uner gave to Bine & Bin* '" art payment El Nldo, a seven story elevator apartment house, on .a plot 89>.1x143J feet, at the northwest corner of 110 th street and Seventh avenue, the two story building known as The Auditorium, No*. 236 : and 238 West 116 th street, on a plot 30x100.11 feet; the four five story new law houses, on a plot 40xlO» feet each, on the north side of 137 th street. lt» feet west of Southern Boulevard, and a plot 75xl<X> feet i on the west side of Southern Boulevard, 375 feet north of Jennings street. Plans were also recently tiled by George F. Pel : ham for a six story . apartment house to be built Ia > a cost of $2iO,<Joo at the northeast corner of 166 th street and Riverside Drive for the Lansing Company, and aLso for the building of another sir story apartment house for the same company, at a cost or •aOO.AW. at the southeast corner of 157tn '' street and Riverside Drive. A $200.0«> apartment house will also be built by the same company at { th « southeast corner of lS«th street and Riverside I Drive from plans by Mr. Pelham. \ number of modern dwelling houses with front n»ea in the Drive has also changed hands this year Robert J. Hoguet recently bought No. ISO Riverside Drive, a five and a iiaif sic wy A.ner - can cement dwelling house on a lot .*.*> feet and the B-.gen Realty Company recently found a buyer for -V" •'- Riverside Drive, a four story and basement (Swelling house. on a plot fronting ..-4 and with a depth of 110.9 feet FOR WEST 20TH ST? BUILDING, 5725,000. Tu , iff Bpeyer & Co. sold for Charles Brog*". to an Investor. N-. 27 to 33 West 20th street, a new twelve stOD !!..: ai.f.l- buUdlng on a plot 100x92 feft. The purchase price as $:-.-"" A 24TH STREET INVESTMENT DEAL. Henry C HuVchberg has sold for T. K. Grea&lee ii four storj dwelling house. No ;336; 336 \\ «st Ulh street. ttxl» teat. The buitr i* an inve«to- Auction Sales of Jietd Estate 165 West 122 d Street. BUYS A PLOT ON HEATH AVENUE. A Row of Dwelling Houses Will Be Erected on the Site. Richard M Montgomery has so.d for the Kings bridge Real Estate Company to the Fordham Re alty Company, of which Alfred Errleson Is pre*. dent six lots at l»3d street and Heath avenue. The buyer will erect six single family dwelling: houses on the site. There has been considerable activity recently In this section of the West Bronx, kno* n as the Bailej tract. In the last two months over twenty lots, "all of whirl: have been taken by builders. have been sold TO BUILD IN WEST HIST STREET. Plans Filed by Max Marx for Flathouses to Cost $120,000. Plans have been Wed for two six story flat houses to be built for Max Marx, as owner, on . 141 st street. 100 feet west of Lenox avenue, from de signs by George P. Pelham. as architect, at a cost of $60,000 each. Koehler and FarnSworth. architects, for the estate of Charles A. Coe. have filed plans for mak ing over the front of the two live story loft and store buildings owned by an estate at Sos. 233, 239 and 241 Fifth avenue, and building ornamental vestibule entrances, and alterations being made i to conform to the change Incident to the widening <>• the avenue by the clt> . Plans have also been tiled tor enlarging the four story dwelling house at No. 13 East 36th ; street. which Is of Colonial design with an ornamental store front In the basement, the improvement being made from designs by K. 1.. Shaltuck. architect, for Robert Hoe. who occupies No. 11 adjoining- DEVELOPMENT WORK AT CRAOMERE. Cragmere. the former estate of Colonel Ezra Miller at Mahwah. N. J, which was bought about two weeks ago by the Van Power-Bugs Company. Is rapidly assuming the appearance of a high class residential park. The beautiful roads which Ool one! Miller had built through his property have J been cleaned up and are being prepared for mac ailsinilzlni.'. . . „_ Owene l*ke. In the centre of the property, has been set aside with two or three acres of the .urrbWdlng property- as a public park, for aUj f the nropertj owneis In Cragmere, so that it mas be used by all for bathing, boating and fishing. On the island In the lake will be ejected a rustic summer house. t . LEASES APARTMENT NEAR THE PLAZA. Henry D nans & May has rented at the Van N-orden Apartments. No. 78.7 Fifth avenue, the en tire fourth floor, for the Fifth Avenue Estates, to Mrs.* Robert E. Westcott for a long term of years. H* t ■.■■^■»p ENLARGES HIS 39TH STREET SITE. George R." Bead & Co. have sold for Mrs. Uiuisu Nivef; the four story dwelling house So. 51 West SSth street. B »x9t*S feet, to Wllli.im Francs. lyn Paris who- owns No. U West ::Oth street, He will alter the two structures into one building for use li .i studio and business , THE AGE FOR SCHOOL. Children m ! 'i' age "' <*'»; i;! are often supposed to to« too youug or too delicate for school. They ar« Executive Oliiccs, 31 Nassau St., New York City Auction Sales of Ren! Estate. SpecieJ Sables Day. Thursday, April 22, 1909, at 12 o'clock noon. EXCHANGE SALESROOM. 14-;* Vesey St.. N. T. Ctt T Absolute Executors* Sale, Estate of Theodora M. Storm. Deceased. By Order of Edmund Guiibert. Orlando H. Harrlman and J. Van V- Ma Olroit. ExicaZon. 32 West 76th St. 211-213 Park Row extension. Size J-xlv--- ' At Galilee, N. J. -»„ ontta^n located v i.- and S. E. corners Ocean avenue an* Park w9mA ' Sn* iint-imlß*.**.) SAME DAY: Absolute Executors' Sale Estate of Eliza. Mulry. DeceaLsad. By Order of Thomas M. Mulry. Thomas F. Mulry. Joseph M F. Earan *n<s Haroli • Swain, Executors. N. W. Cop. Aye. D and 11th St. Three hrir^^uUdVocr^n^Jinj'of "!■•.' W*and"^ re%p^tlrel» 533-535 East 15th Street i 537-39-41-43 East 15th Street two two-story bulldins- In rear. » to -^ bu ' m '"f on ra MICHAEL J. SCANLAN. 51 Chambers St., Sen York City. John G H Meyer., Esq., 150 Nassau St.. N. Y. City: Ambrose G. To<M, Esq, 55 Ut-rty John v. ti. Ji.jer., *" St.. x v City, AttO rneys for Executors. Executors' Sale By order of J. E. Marsh. Executor. 625-627 Sixth Avenue, In the HoraLld Square . Section ! M«sr S A^^^^llo^^^T^Wi^^torneys for Executor, .".V N^a^ St^N^ Tork Absolute Executors' Sale. Es.ar. of TERESA FORSYTHE. Dccfasp.i. by Order Joseph A. Joun?, Exr. B«reTi«n of Brooklyn, X. T. 1669 44th Street, Two .tor, mmi attic mm« Bulldlnir. on plot ssM «0«l(». i SAME DAT: Borough of Manha.tta.n. 475 LENOX AVENUE, Five itory brick Building. »ith two .tores, .lie -' plot •••aMI Supreme Court Partition Sals UNDER DIRECTION OF WARREN LESLIE. ESQ.. REFEREE. S. E. Cor. B'way and 4th St. Nos. 692, 694 Broadway— Nos. 2 to 8 East 4th St. and Nos. 384 to 388 Lafayette St. Two Corners and One Block Front Broad , ay front oceupie«»y Northern Na.onal Ban, ,n d U^- Four story brie* and iron business buildings. Thursday, April 15, 1909 AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON. EXCHANGE SALESROOM. M VESBT ST. s—fYf can remain on bond and A.I f-&&\ OOyO mortgage for 3 years at /£/U/ £ /U AUGUSTUS H/\YIL/\ND. Esq., Attorney, 40 Wall St., New York City Bronx Real Estate. Lonclywood lE&k iiiuu i iuc iy Mosquitovillc # WHY Lift IN Ginger Manor Etc., Etc. I ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF CITY AND SUBURBAN LIFE ARE COMBINED Vi THE BRONX To Let for Business Purpose: To Let for Bmmmem Pi r To Let Large and Small OFFICES Sing I* or en Suit* IN the: Tribune Building 154 Nassau Street Oppoait* City H»ll Park Apply for Terms to Renting Agent, Room 607 not. if t.M-v .ire to a school where th.-re b a proper amount of supervlsU.,l and .are ot them Sivffuai without coddling: 111 the stages, of ';';'■ childhood health la almost at Us best Th* *lis ,.r.t rs of early infancy h:»v*- hevn avoided or r ' " covered from. Many of the specific fevers may have been satisfactorily i.;»ss«! through. The records nt our hospitals fop children show an ex trrmi-iv low mortality at Mils period Tiu- brain has almost .■ — I Its adult slxe. perception is •»' ll '-'. ■he mind rwrtleas an I Inquiring, the tnemori ajood and lasting and the senses keen :m.l aler: v ' r '' '■ great endurance for snort stretched, w0n.1.-rful xi 'talttv anj extraordinary activity.— Th« Hospital. NONPLUSSED MR. GLADSTONE. Miss Ooro'hy Drew. W.i" was presented at court a. f«Sf day* ago. was the favorite granddaughter of Auction Salcx of Real Estate. Pioneer of Concentrated Persistent Advertising Bronx Heal Estate. The Centra ot Transit for the Metropolitan m»uiet "L" Station* Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge Subway All Within a SUp Absolutely So.fe Fa.st-Runnlng ELEVATORS <rius*r Try*>- Electric Light and Janitor Service Open E-Very Day in the year ■ ■ — ' " aSO i;uK REST KOK BISIXE.^ l ' l Ri y-."b> •« >:it *' t * tor 6 years, but »nlt*bl«- fv any t'J>'"- 1 "' __ -* the .-•■ \V. K. C.ladstone. and 'w| V* tout ..I her cbUdhood day* " ««• f% .,- "{, er %**=* mornSns she refused t.» itet up. "»'*■ f" *'", -«M faillns. Mr. Uladntone »•** ™} l^\ l ash U,i' -W.^i don'l you get up, n-y chil.l he a*w^^JO* grandpapa, dfato'l y«o teU to to do ■» * ..wel s:ivh-- replied Dorothy. *"Ye% rt t 3 ,'.;- ; a »nt» ttm*-.- rejoined the child, Mr- SSrfWP I *' able lo aS r,r. but m.rothv "■^Teriv :> * ! » 2 •>ou listen, then." she said, Ir l r,r ,^ inK up *•*: clamatl' t. of astonishment »f* i^^feJ jr«* 1 Bib™ she read P«»Im xU S-,' wU'"' emphasis on th« words. "It • •■*■ fPr > oU W up early."— Til-Btts.