New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06
REAL ESTATE.
FAIR BUSINESS DONE FOR AN ANTE
ELECTION WEEK.
BROADWAY SALE AND THE PURE HAsE OF
SEVERAL VALUABLE DWELLINGS AND OF
VALUABLE UPTOWN CORNER
PROOFS OF THE MAR

PROOFS OF THE MAR
KETs STABILITY
As the result Of weeks realty business IN the
best part of the season, the record OF the last
six days might he little disappointing For ,ne
week preceding election. however the crop OF safes
has been large and important one, and the crop
OF rumors Of important transactions has been even
larger A valuable dwelling in Forty-second-st''
another Broadway business building. the old Co
lumhia College site two valuable Boulevard piots,
a high-priced Fifth-ave. corner and nne row OF
dwellings ali said. with more or Tess au-
thori,y the subject of negotiations which are
likely to result successfully in few days. nnd the
actual sales OF the week have included some vaiu-
able and interesting properties.
Transactions In flathouses and dwellings and In
properties intended for Improvement with resideh-
tial housing. have been the feature Of the market
Several Of the dwellings sold were OF high grace.
No East Forty-second-st. sold for $4,000" ana
No Ala Madison-ave sold for $1,000 An apart
ment-house at Eighty-ffth-st. and Amsterdam-aVe'
brought 100000. The sales OF the Broadway build
ing reported below. Of corners OF One-hundred-and
nty-ffth-st. and Park-ave. and Tenth-st ana
University Place. more important All
are plain proofs Of the stability OF the market and
show that once the uncertainty attending the cleo
ton is over. business is likely 10 boom In earnest
Business in the aucton-rooms during the week
was marked by the usual ante-eiecuon apathy
There was only one parcel scheduled for voluntary
sale This was No 5i2 West End-ave. by Bryan
L. Kennedy and 1t was withdrawn or the
properties offered in foreclosure proceedings. re"
were OF a nature 10 invite competition. Two par
cells more attractive than the average. were with
drawn and disposed of at private sale
Latest SALES BY BROKERS.
Charles H. Easton sold yesterday, for the estate
of George l.. Pease. the fve-story dweling-house
No III West Forty-secord-st, on lot Ioxi" 10
Adams Bros for about 100000
y DE r. Wlssman sold for Carter & Ledyard
renresenting Mrs Nathalie F. Reynal. the building
No 53s Broadway &xl25. for sll5oD, to frankiyn
Petit For this property \. D. Highs PAID soO'Vc'
in 1878 The building adj ming on the south brought
s,1o 90 at auction in 1896 Nos. 532 and 534 Broad
way were sod at private contract in the same year
for $4,000.
J. F. Briggs & Co. sold for client TO Dr. j. T.
McMichael No. 80 West Eighty nnth-st. -FOUR
story private brownstone dwelling house. on io'
20xl00.
Brandt & Kirby sold for the Metropolitan I'M
provement Company to the Colonial Building Com.
many the plot 72xl01 at the southeast corner OF
West End-ave. and Eighty-third-st. seven-story
apartment house will be erected there.
The same brokers sold for the NewYork Invest
ment Company No. 259 West Eghty-fourth-st
three-story private dwelling house. on lot l6Sx'o
Wei & Mayer bought No. 90 East Third-st.. old
building lot 22sxl0o.
l.. $ Marx sold No. $50 First-ave., four-story
dwelling house fCr about $3.50 .,,
Elizabeth J. CiOdner sold NO SO Last III leth-
q A three-story dwelling-h house. lot l6sXlr taking
in part payment a farm at Westbrookville SulIl-
van County. y. Y 1900 IT,.
Slawson q Hobbs sold for KHAN Bros. to Client
for occupancy the dwelling house No .'3 Mest
Seventy -frst-st. on a lot l'x0oSi" on private
terms.
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK.
Sales of forty-three parcels Of city realty were
reported in the last week. The considerations In
fifteen cases amounted altogether TO s7S5.5O The
corresponding figures for the previous week were
forty-our parcels sold. nine for total consdera-
ton of $4,000 - . .
The auction sales for the week IN Manhattan ana
The Bronx realized sum OF s6iS.94 as compared
with slsss2 in the corresponding week OF last year
In Brooklyn the auction sa.es realized Szo4oLv as
compared with s9s. rs IN the same week OF 1871
These tables compare the conveyances, mortgages
and buildings projected in the three boroughS our
ing the week: