New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-09

lust commenced double store at Nos IA and Walker
~ 10 have white marble column front, five stories in
hight and to cost about 10000: The building s near
the lowest part OF the spenard salt Meadow ana there
fore cannot have o deer cellar; MI John B h+OCk,
Mr. Jon Ford's Italian 'front.' five story marble store
at Nos 80 aud Al wakerst, which has just pe.h com
pleted cost abont $4,000. n, -. 49,, tou.
store at No 70 Wakcrst and No 70 adjoining owned by
Mr. Warner the architect cost about SOO e"' anu are
each Ok feet front hy % feet in depth.
Nos 65 and ca waker-st, owned ~ MI John B Ford q
fine double marble front store x st heen eompetsd
Nr Doubleday Of BIOOkiynls buI4uG Ivy s.US ~ W.
Scotia stone store a No. 9 MsIS'' eOs'
The northeast corner OF ChuIeh ana NSKtI-ss ~ =,
the bands OF the desroyers, and Mr. J9hh I sGa ~ ~
build there, for Mr. Lewis Tine marble s'oie u 'o BUT
| les TO cost about $4,000. . -. - ,.,,,
Or smith Dodge has mi9f tosf go coo
Nos 100 and lOl FTaullnst arc each 23A'o lee' Nv
stCree and basement, of Dorchester stone cSs1 nnU'
go n00 each aud belong respectively to Mr. j. " William
son Of Philadelphia aud Mr. Henry re No. ~ i" t
ljust belonging to Max Wei, is Of white inaipe' Du,
otherwise Of the general description as NOS V4 ana
iO4. Architect, Warner. ~, IN. .,.o.r, y,
Gss sSo en. In te Firth Wafd havcpurchased
HE cast side Of Broadway and will soon erect at NOE
lC5 ana 100 06 ' sHc S6%oi feet cost s2OO
Architect DuckwoTth The workmeI VIII bre"k srounu
Nos Il and al Thouaasst havo been sold to MI Erastus
Titus and soon to Dc demolished 10 give Pate M ,J
marble edfce This is the filthy brotheI III whieh Ieieh
Jcwett was murdered. 80 A.. 49,. ,oro
Mr. John Martin, r Is erecting brick nve-story s'ore
| al No q ThOmas-st, which is to cost $l0O"
Noe Is and Is WhCst, size JOxe5 NOS ~ ana ~ sLe
4095 aud Nos q and 49, size 50X95 OF D9Icheser ~
in italian sfvlc aud TO cost about 5000 each owners
Meesrs Henry Lewis and j. +. Smith OF lhiladepma
NoS "a and 1G Wtest were recently sold at auction,
and are soon to be rebuilt in marble. ,,..
on the southeast corner Of Church and Whitests:
Messrs. Gardner Colby OF Boston, ana slaae So W
this city, have just ine ,naIee 0 600 and az
Nos a. "a and 81 Whitest the same firm and MI Jonn X
Ford are erecting two marble stores each 3tX9o feet anu
IN costS
Of Gothic architecture III the street. warner Is
At Nos a and 40 whe-st Mr. Charles Alexander arch
itect is finishing fve-stOTy and MansaTdroOI DrOWh-
sS Hf N SoiS s W WI 1 Mcssr Wood have just
plctcd fyest0Ty- endorsement marble store I9AlV2
feet at of This store Is on high ground ana
On tho southwest corner of Broadway and Thorn.
marble frstcass store standing 30 feet West Broad
way andCO Thomas and TO cost $4,000 Architect Mr.
Inc northeast and southeast corners of West Broad;
way and ThOmasst both low groceries orc 70 ne rZe
on The first Of May, TO give Place 10 Marble and Drown
stone Mr. Ames r. Emo OF Che Fifth Avenue Hoel,pur-
chased the southeast corner OF west BROADWAY anu
Nos a. 4G and Is Ieonars with q front Of 70 feet on
West Broadway arc owned by Mr. ID. = BaDcoch VINO u
t2d d6 vesory brown Stone warehouses; '""' W." ''
no a Leonard st. which has just been completed is Of
white marble fvestories and BASEMENT cost $4,000 and
is owned by Mr. NOOhis The same may De sad Vi no o.
owned by Mr. John sade Warner architeGti ororo,,,
about in the basement G feet in the fsstoy 10
feet on the second 10 iee ON inc tI y icSt ~ sc
as various the styles OF architecture ana qalty ol ma
trial used in their construction the range bCng between
Ss GOO anSQs for five and siNtCry buildings. Nearly
ali these structures OF the best class and are 10 he not
only heated by steam, but 10 have steam eeyatng ma
Mr. q. F Savage, foreman Of about dozen new build
ings in Whte-st informs us ihat nc % ~ NJ
another three years expects to Dc experimenting the
erection OF brown stone and marble warehouses Oh the
west side, as high up as Grandst.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TIiE NINTH WARD
have been made In tie Ninth Ward within year. land
lords generally advancing their demands; but a. Tar
have ascegtaned that tenants are not inclined submit
10 any increase whatever OF their rent rates their bebtI
being that il they mold out until the middle OF April az
they with ease they may snow the landlords the ao
surdity-Of their demands.
The most noticeable of the Ninth Ward improvements
are the fine brick and browIstone mansions which the
wOrfinen are finishing on INC weltEnowh van N.ss
Charles and PciTysts., was thrown into the market ~
1865 and sold nj auction for Si4225 tie fortyone build
corner lots and about s. for Others Prior to this sale
the estate had been toryfyc years ~ me hands OF ne
price az that time being 5000 But az thai TINE the
estate, far from being within the boundai OF any
city was on tho outskirts of Greenwich Village,
then mere group OF d%'i,insS aD'"t a , eIi
grew mn TO and around the Van Ness mansion, and
when, year two ago, the venerable pile was deno
shed i was ne sole dwelling ~ iGe NinIh wan t3@'
has now been excavatcd ana built upon by old Nuh
Mag e,6 To arc bs S S5 Ward fcndhrs and
traditions ThcfeforePthey have erected on the ground
three handsome blocks OF four story basement brick
and brown.stOne dwellings, az cost OF from AhHH "a
$4,000 each for which rental Of from o. 200 g. $500
asked other gentlemen viii build block Of stores ano
dwellings on the BccckcT-st boundary Of the Van Ncss
estate next season On the northeast conner Of c estate
a number Of the congregation Of the old Dutch Reformed
Church III Kngst. have erected modest bTlek church
| which is an ornament 10 the ucicil 0rhOod.
Greenwich-ave School, numerically designated ns NO
a. Is approaching completion and Nh Macrcy, the aIch
tect hopes TO have II ready for opening by the fret OF
| Nav It's cost r. 10 De s7l2a5.
other Improvements in the Ninth Ward may be en-
| braced in q paragraph. Mc'srs d. ana w. H. Whitman
have built large pork packing cstablhment, covering
four lots IN Greenwics Christopher, and fitted
the four upper stories for tenement purposes tho rcnts
being the first floor, 500 the second SIS on the
third f25 and the fourth S22 No increase these
rates is contemplated. Mr.. HGight is finishing large
fOuIstOry tenement building In Grecnwchst corner OF
Bethune 10 be ready for occupants the first Of May
and the rent tariff 70 be about the came above
Store rents In the Ninth Ward vary OF course, accord
ing 20 within. The occupant Of cigar store, at No b5l
Hudsonst with room IN the for the abode Of
bis family paid s25 month last year His landlord has
notified him that next year he must pay S5. Thirteen
years ago the whole OF No 1896 BcecBcfs rented at
1850 annually; Oneha OF this property yields the
landlord $780, aud he has notified the tenant OF add
tion OF 500. thereto next year. Owners Of Dwellings in
Twelfth and Thirteenth-sts which rented for 600
u 100 and 81 200 last year. demand 81 20O s. 800 ana 81 400
next year. Tue tenants are going ont, and WIZ seek
shelter elsewhere.