New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-02
REAL ESTATE.
THE NETWORK TELEPHONE COMPANIES
PURCHASE.
TO ERECT LARGE BUILDING IN GoLD-sT-
AN ICE COMPANY GETS VALUABLE CHURCH
PRoPERTY-oTHER TRANSACTIONS AT

pROPERTY-oTHER TRANSACTIONS Al
PRIVATE CONTRACT.
Yesterday was one OF those disagreeable days
when real estate brokers' In common with other
people, found II more comfortable TO remain IN
their cfices than to face the storm. consequently
business was not quite brisk In the realty mar
ket as II was in the closing days OF last week.
Still number Of important sales were recorded
As told in The Tribune last week. the New-York
| Telephone Company is about 10 erect buiIdihs
| for an operating station and branch once u
its Cortlandt-st offices. in Gold-st The telephone
| company has practically secured. either by pur-
chase or lease eight adjoining plots in that street
Information received yesterday disclosed the fact
that the telephone company has bought the build
ngs and plots at Mes 30 and 81 God-st near Johh-
st. and has leased No g. The entire plot has
frontage in God-st Of 72l feet. is $50 feet deep
on the south line and So feet deep on the north
line. No 3d. with 277 feet 'front.' is purchased by
the company from Mandelbaum & Levine No g.
with frontage of pa feet. is leased from lhe
Goelet estate for period of twenty-one years WIN
the privilege of two renewals for like periods ana
No 81. with frontage Of oil feet. Is purchased
from John W. Mason. The last-named plot, con
tanning two-story brick shop and coal sheq Ma =
Yod fifteen years ,;o ago by the estate Oh
The property OF the Twenty-third Street Baptist
Church al the northwest corner OF Twenty thrd-st
and Lexington-ave. has passed into the hands o.
an ice company and the church mas purcnasCea d
plot at one -hundred-and-f orty-hfth-st and Con
vent-ave., where a church building will be
erected as soon as practicable The Tweny-third.
st property was bought by John Adamson, OF
Brooklyn. for $1,000 he having also purchased
from Mary L. Hall the house ad)oin mn zoo sie
Mr. Adanson then conveyed the propcrtE incud-
Ing No 2S Lexington;ave to ne Consohdsted ice
sumption Of a mortgage of 10000 covenant in
the decd 10 the ice company recles that IN case
the edlfce Is torn down the cornerstone, its con-
tents and the memorial tablets. shall be turned
over to the church trustees.
William Fischer has sold for NJ. Katzenberg to
Frank ZNinge
on the southeas. corner Of Eiehteenth-st ana
Avenue A.. or private terms. The plot has front
age of % feet in the avenue and of 10 feet in the
street.
wiam-st'' was the purchaser Of the private
dwelling at No % East Fifty 81 the sale
of which has already been reported in The Tribune
Omes has M @ 5 5Tom M@naf Gd
at No. 2s West Fifteenthst.. on a plot 25xs5 The
buyer gives in par payment No Sa
dwelling
George Fd So sens %cs Sc have sGG
four-story brownstone and brick private dwelling
David stewart has sold for Mrs JShanna irsG ,ho
hundred and-ffty-seven to an investor for
$1,000; also for Ferdinand Forsch TO John Davis
for Improvement the plot 5OXe9 on the south side
of One cumberland fftieth St. 200 feet west OF
Amsterdam aye. and for Annie " Hubent TO
house lot 25xe1. at the southeast corner of One
hundred and seventy-ffh-st and Wadsworth have.
the northwest corner of Amsterdam-ave. and One
hundred and -seventieth-st. for 1880.
A NEW BUILDING IN MAIDEN LANE
A new nf,een-story brick office building for tho
of jewellers is soon to be erected by Ralph s.
Townsend, architect, for the New-York Realty
Company at No 9 10 - Maiden Lane. The build
ing will cost $4,000 and will be principally OF
brick with front of Indiana limestone. COPIED with
Vermont marble. Plans nave also been submitted
by MKim. Meade & White. architects, for the
erection of fve-story brick and stone library
building on the grounds OF the New-York univer-
ety fronting In Sedgwicli-ave at University
Heights The building will cost $4,000.
IN THE AUCTION ROOMS.
The following parcels dispose Of al auction
yesterday:
George r. Read sold Nos. 155 and l57 East Thirty
ninth-st., 1894 4xl9.2X9lS and 273Xi iX276i 4X!S2
two hve-sory fathous"s stone front, TO the Metro
poitan Life Insurance Company. plaintiffs No. 10
bringing $1,000 and No. l57 $3.50
William Kennedy sold No. LIZ Stebbins-ave. near
Honest ive-stoIy frame buildings. lot
r71Ox6SXlS1x7l.i. to Maria A. Ways:ack for $500.