New-York tribune., 1896-05-17
GOOD BUSINESS DONE:
CONDITION OF THE REAL ESTATE
MARKET.

TRANSACTIONS RY PRIVATE CONTRACT REACH
THE TOTAL OF $4,000 OOO-MANY LOTS SOLD.
The transactions In real estate by private con-
tract which were reported the last week reached
the respectable total Of $4,000 In this figure Is
included the purchase OF the site for the new house
OF the University Club. The feature OF the deal
ings was lots with without old buildings. There
were also a good many sales Of houses. despite the
lateness OF the season. Several operations OF con-
sequence in business property were noted as being
under negotiation. and likely to be consummated
in the near future Altogether the situation was
highly satisfactory. The sales OF the week included
the following:
SALES OF THE WEEK.
Charles Grlfiths Moses sold for Jacob Hess two
lots on the east side OF Klngsbrdge Road 100 feet
south Of Emersonst. size 5Oxl4Ox5OxiN. on private
terms
John b. Smith. who recently purchased Nos. s62
and 963 Fifth-ave. from Frank A. Ehret, sold the
former number 10 a Mrs Robins and the latter TO
Charles f. Dietrich for about $4,000 each.
The purchaser of the new building at Washington
Square East and Washington Place was Francis A.
Palmer president of the Broadway National Bank
The amount paid Is said TO have been N50.0o0 The
sx-story new manufacturing building at Narick
and Laight SITS. was exchanged in part payment
Mr. Palmer paid $4,000 for it two years ago. An
other story will probably be added to It.
W. NJ. Martin, a lawyer, of No 50 Broadway, sold
his house In Ffth-ave.. near Fortieth-st., on pri-
vate terms.
Douglas Robinson & Co. sold lot 30 feet front
on the south side OF Sxtyfrstst.. 21O feet east OF
Fifth-ave. for about $4,000 A handsome dweilng
will be erected the lot.
d. Stewart sold for W Thompson No. 266 Edge
combe-ave.. three-story brick Ind stone dwelling
lot 15x6Ox9O. private terms.
J. A. Frame & Sons sold No. West Sixty-nnth-
st. one OF their row. TO g. Grossman for about
$4,000.
c. c. Edgars Sons sold for Improvement TO c.
Gahren five lots on the south side OF One-hundred-
and-fourteenth-st, rs feet west Of Lenox-ave.. on
private terms.
c. r. Gregor & Son sold a, private contract for
Elias Kempner the four lots with frame dwellings
known as No. 6 to SO East Eighty -slxth,st lOzxIOS
for about $1,000: also the three-story Drownsone
dwelling No I62 East Eighty -sixth-st, Ssx5OxlW2
~ " F & G. r. Smith sold for Henry C,.Wyand the
two-story frame dwelling. with lot 2xlOo, on the
south side OF Esmere Place 400 feet west OF Mar
mlon-ave. for st6OO also to Annie F. Vreeana' Tor
improvement plot 50xl00. on the west SIDE OF An
tnony-ave lis feet north OF 3urnsde-ave., Tor
Si25; Biz; also to Mr.. weher plot 50xso on % west
side of Brook-ave. 50 feet north OF One-hundred-
and-forty-sxth-st. for so.OeC, ..o
Folsom Brothers sold FOR William Prayer the two
west corner OF Cannon and Rivngton SITS. to Mrs
Clark who % bndas asTm on the ns se Ha
Warner Brothers. owners OF No. ~ tsankhn-s fr6T
and 10 s BFSsdTaE So "a ''
Gouldlng Il Whitehouse sold for j. Is; Smih inc
four-story brownstone dwelling No. seS fifth-aVe
for $4,000 ,r..,, =.
Jesse g Bennett sold for Eugene Hartwsii to
four-story brownstone dwelling. @x5SxlOo, for about
S37 coo and No "a West Eighty nth-st, similar
house and lot for the same owner. to Louis Dnkei-
spell for $1,000 - ~, 4. -
Tenner the lot the south side OF One-hundred-
anl-elghteth-st. 100 feet west OF Eleventh-ave
Nine lots sold in One e-hundredand-nfteent
st north side 175 feet east OF Lenox-ave.. SIX 10
william Hall IT, and three to Enrich Brothers
They will Improve the property by the erection OF
nrst-class apartmen-houses. . -. . -
Charles Griffith Moses sold for Mrs Jane r, Stay
hack TO Daniel b. Friedman fourteen lots compris
ing the entire block front on the easterly side or
Amsterdam-ave from Two-hundred- -and-twelfth to
Two-hundred- i'd thirteenth SITS, with three lots In
rear in each street. on private terms
J. s. Edmondson sold two fve-story brick tene-
ments Nos 23l and 2s3 West Sixtyfrs-st. for w. f.
Finn also the fourstory house. northwest corner OF
One-hundr red and twenty -seventh-st and Madison
ave for ]. y. Smith. OF Brooklyn
CONvEYANCEs AND MORTGAGES.
The record of conveyances, mortgages and build
ings projected In New-York the last week, a. CON-