New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-16
REAL ESTATE
BUSINESS AT THE ExcuAvcr

There was q fair attendance at the Real Estate H.
shange yesterday, Notwithstanding the unfsvor>bIe
weather. Tho prices ruled somewhat lower Tia
sale by Van Tasse & Kcarney, for tho Commissioners
OF the Sinking Fund, of old aqueduct lots brought =
largo number OF bidders the oor As Is usual With
sales Of this character, the vendors had placed an nm
set price on the lots, which situated between
Ninety ninth and One hundred and second sts pear
Nintb-sve. The upset price was 5000 Der lot
whereas the market value Of these lots is not over
$4,000 apiece. Tho result that no bid was msde
and tho property was withdrawn. Two Important
lots, however, were sold one being public school
in the Ninth Ward, In wsvcrly Place. eighty feet from
West Elwcnth-st. The property Is 5ox68, and tia
upset price fixed upon It $4,000 Tho bidding
ran away beyond this figure up to sls5o0, at which
price James J. Barr was tho buyer. Another irres-
mar plot at One hundred and twenty ninth-st and
rose 10 @ on which the upset price Was
tho buyer. s -
p Peter F. Meyer offered number of lots At Ray
was large attendance OF bidders from the ncgbbor.
hood and the prices ranged from sl4o to $40 per lot
rowsave. tcomer, $780, and Interior lots $3.50 each
The stand of John F. B. smyth was well attended
West Twenty seventhst The To- 70. sSsosa %h
three-sory basement and cellar highstoop house. Tho
up At Which pG price, Daniel c1unns
ham was the buyer The same auctoneer offered No.
With vii sos and fCust9y brick dwelling
q year, and was sold for 81 800 to II. Ralph
no. 4li west Fifty sixths Is nve-story double
nat house, on a lot 25x75xloO. It was sold for
$1,000 TO Henry Duger. James L Wells sold, in
tsne,ave In the Twenty fourth Ward It was bousht
by Myer Finn for 500 900.
X V: Harnett & Co. sold various lots IN West Ono.
dred and fourth and One-hundred and nth sts ana
Eighth Threo lots in One hundred and. second at
100 feet from the avenue brought 81 ,425 each and
four lots In the rear $4,000 each. Tho corner lot =
One-hundred and-tbird-st. and tho avenue brousht
An vtr
largo lot In One hundred and third ST. NORTH side
brought s7,400, and lot 1s11x1011 In One-hundred.
andfourth-st., $1,000. Similarly situated lots with
small fr0ntages on Onehundred and fourth and One
hundred and fifth sts brought $3.50 and 100 70.
spcctlvely The Same auctoneer sold No. 30 Goerck.
St, fvestory and basement, brick tenement house,
with lot 2oxs4x1oo. 1t went for ga, 900 to Lous
Schmidt
S. De .waltearss sold eight lots at woodlawn, the
corner Of Wilard-avc. and Fourth-st They brought
from 1926 to 1905 per lot.
Referring to the activity which IS stu apparent IN
tho Twentythird and Twenty fourth Wards, It Is TO
be noticed that the number Of buildings projected for
the month Of April has increased more than doublo
exists elsewhere has not extended to this locality.
Garrett Magic, member Of the Exchange, agent foe
the Southwestern Texas immigration Agency, pro-
poses to offer series OF Texas lands the floor al
prices which will afford good margin for profit Ho
offered yesterday at Calaveras, Wilson County, Texas,
ranch Of $500 acres, iron springs, etc. at s2o, 900.
There was a call at the Exchange yesterday for q
three or four story house on tho north Side OF
Thirteelth-st, south lido Of Ffteenth-st between
Sixth and Seventh aves, about twenty feet wide Also
for a fourstory brownstone cabinet-trimmed house,
in the ncighborhood of the Eighty firstst elevated
station, Sixfh-ave. road also vacant lots old
buildings in Hudson or Washington sts below Beach