New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-01
THE MAY CHANGES.
THE MOVEMENT IN REAL ESTATE.


OF THE PRINCIPAL CHANGES.
Tho sales of real estate during last week were I'M
usualy LARGE The transfers recorded in the Regis
terss Office were so many III number Saturday That
the clerical force were detained until late
hour in entering them. Among the larger transac-
lions were the following; house and lot on the
south side of Forty-siXth-st 1915 feet, west OF
Fifth-ave.. by T. c. PIatt to Caroline I. Merrlhew'
for $50 900; house and lot No. 40 OFeehe-st''
Jacob X. Lockman, executor, to Edward y. 1aller'
for $50 900: n house and lot on the south side OF
Forty-eighth-st., 81 feet west of Slxth-aye Annie
T.. Crssey and husband to Robert l.. Deyo, ior
900. n. J. Wandell, receiver, sold seVei@l
pieces of property. These comprised a house ana
LOT OH the northwest corner of Park-aye ana Sixty
firs-st to c. X. Peters, for $4,000; plot, % DF
go feet at the northwest corner of fleetwood-ave'
and One-hundred- Observation-Disclosures, TO w. IL.
Payne for So 800 plot the north side OF Sixty
seventh-st, 200 feet west of Eevenl-ave, to
Charles f. Appeby. for $780, $50; house and lot
ON the north side of Slxteth-t., 100 feet west OF
Park-ave TO Elizabeth G. McKibbin, for $500;
plot on the north side of One hundred-and-sixty-
ffth-st part of lot No. 81 to William Green
halch. for $500. +. L. Cornings
sons sold to r. Valentine the house and lot on the
south side of Ddane-st., 1S9 feet west of Elm-st,
for $l7, 800. William NJ. Shafiner sold to Frederick
! Stone the premises Nos. 2S 30, 80, 81 and SO
Iibcrty-st.. for Sill, 600. William n. Martin sold
to :. " H. Cruger the premises, 5OxlOO5, on the
south side Of Flfty-sixthst 275 feet east OF Ninth
ave-. for 1925. 900. +. Miller sold to d. w. Bruce
the premises Nos. Is and 20 Cedar-st., for $4,000
Martha f.. Wetmore sold to B. Altman the dwelling
on the south side Of Twenty fth-at, 80 feet west
of Broadway. for $4,000.
The total amount of auction sales for the week
90 IF,f,I tAYilp
sive. was S7sG.373. OF this amount S53S.S9S was
for property south of Ffty-eighth-st Sl9o,614 Ior
property north of Fifty-eighth-st. and east OF
Tifth-aye and 81 600 for property north OF FIFTY
ciehth-st. and west of Fith-aye. The total
amount # foreclosure sales for the same period was
$50 500 The testimony OF the great ma
iority of real estate agents is that there are few
sales for speculative purposes. Where attempts
have been made TO sell large plots for this purpose
there has been little success. Many large con-
tractors have sold dwellings at concession rather
than carry them through TIE summer - nc great
majority of cases the purchasers have bought IoT
permanent investment. There IS dood draI OF
binding in the Twelfth aud Nineteenth WARDS,
which include what were formerly known ~ lOfk-
vile and Harlem IL WAS expected That there would
bc a large amount of building on the West SIDE
above Hiiy-cighth-st. but thus far lie amount Is
limited. Undoubtedly the strikes among IN work
men of the various trades employed III building mas
had good deal To do with tins state Of things me
high price OF building materials. rs compared WIFI
Two years ago has also had its effect Then lanu-
Lords in the upper part OF the city have materially
increased their rentals, and this has determined
many persons living in the lower part OF the city
who contemplated moving uptown, to remain Tor
another year /. their Old quarters.
In The teucment-huuso districts there was more
moving done Saturday than in other quarters
and there were great numbers of loaded carts gong
about looking II their owners mad tried the no.
rent policy and had failed. Here and there family
was moving without the aid OF the truck, the man
wearing the drOp-lcaf table "a hat, while the
wife followed with "a bed-tick Tor switch,
and the children trugged after with kettles
Oh their heads and spoons sticking out OF their
pockets In the arstOcrdtlc regions an occasional
furniture van was 10 be seen. while miscellaneous
loads were frequently met with. Even here there
was lack of dignity on the part OF sofas and easy
chars and many d wardrobe of mahogany ratified
a. if 1t contained skeleton. Some OF the beyelled
mirrors on dressing cases of costly woods turned
themselves upward, so that paSscrs-by could not
see what was concealed in their depths. The
lace curtains from the drawlDg-roOm snubDed the
dlnngrOOm table cover. the decorated lire screen
turned its back on the Kitchen chairs, and the
aristocratic hat-rack shocked To see the UNI
hrea-holder SO intoxicated that II couldn't stand
up There was IN TACT, generally disc lnsoae
ard ruled air about everything IN the trucks, rs II
this moving in such mixed society not what
If was cracked ~ to be-" Trucks were in great de-
mand and at night the side streets were filled with
long lines Ofcrazy old vehicles that had been brought
from retirement to be creased and patched and
were lett standing in readiness for to-day work.
All daV long tine movers were crossing The ferries
especially those at Grand and ROOseVcl;-sts. Most
of these people were going out OF the city, about
half rs many coming IN as went out.