New-York tribune., 1896-05-30
AN OFFER FOR Y. w. c. A. BUILDING.
THE DIRECTORS REFUSE $4,000 FOR THE
PROPERTY AT TWENTY-THlRD-ST.
AND FOI-RTH-ANE.

That Fourth-ave near Twenty-third-st., IL des-
tined In the near future TO undergo tranSorfnatohs
still more remarkable than those that nave occurred
within the few years IL evident from the re0ei
purchases and attempted purchases OF real estate IN
that locality.
The directors OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation have recently received an orer OF s'"p lot
their property. The offer was promptly dechneu'
The offer was made through the medium OF a real
estate broker and the name OF the wouId-oe puf-
chaser IS unknown. but In case the deai "a' u,'
successfully carried through n big once bul1'hs
,,ould have bee, erected upon the site OF the \. NJ
c. 4. building.
An officer OF the association told tribune re-
porter that the property was not In the mar"et !"
the sense OF It's owners being anxious - sell pu'
that II anybody were TO offer S.cD"p for 'he
directors would take the subject under considera-
tion Abou, two years ago. he added. a proposition
had been made by a director to erect a nfteen-story
building on the premise5 but. as II appeared that
heavy mortgages would have to he undertaken the
directors decided TO follow the example OF the
Boards Of Home and Foreign Missions OK the Pres
byteran Church and the project was voted down.
the only vote In its favor being cast by the director
who proposed the plaI.
The property OF the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION runs l75 feet in Twenty-third-st and NJ
In Fourth-ave and has been assessed for %""p
The members OF the National Academy Of Design
sold their property which IL just opposite the
Young Mems Christian Association. site and consld-
erably smaller for $1,000. and considered them
selves fortunate.
II was said ths: IN the Young Mems Chris
tian Association should sell It's Twenty -thrd-st
property and erect a new building the association
would not move much further uptown. Its branch
building at Fif,y-seventh-st. and Eighth-ave.. Is
rapidly nearing comp.ction.
The Twenty-third-st. building was completed In
1853 and was the FIRST fully equipped Young Mems
Christian Association building erected In this coun-
,rv William T. Dodge was more than any other
one man responsible for tr successful completion
The recent deals and rmora Of deals IN real estate
in Fourth-avc near Twenty -third-s have called at
fention to the rapid changes that this part oi the
CITY has undergone within the last few years Three
~ tho four corner lots at FOurth-av". and Twenty
kecond-st that were only a few years ago occupied
substantial business buildings OF large proportions
One of these and the latest to be completed IL the
building OF the Bank for Savlngs.
on the corner diagOnally opposite stands the
United Charities Building. and on the southeast
corner the Church Missions Building. completed In
1899 while the southeast corner OF 1Weniy-thrc-
81 s the solid home OF the Society for the Preven-
ton OF Cruelty to Children. This building too. IL
only three years old.
second-st is occupied by the Fourth Avenue Pres
byterian Church. to whose congregation Dr. HOW
ard Crosby formerly minstered. and whose congie-
pation Is said to be only awaiting good oH"r
before disposinR OF the property
The comparatively recent erection or the Ne"
Amsterdam Hotel at Twenty -hrs,-st.. and the big
"nice building OF the United States Lithograph
Company now going up only a few blocks furthrr
down are silent. but effective witnesses 10 the
changes OF the near past and those thdt are 10 DC
expected in the future