New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
REAL ESTATE.
DEPRESSION GIVES WAY TO IMPROVED
BUSINESS.
ru>, AsroF,sA1E~TT4E BEGINNING OF SERIES Of
COOP IEXcSsACroNs-PooR DAYS IN THE
AUCTION Taoo,is-soME NEW SALES.

THY AsroRisA1E sTT4E BEGINNING OF SERIES OF
GOOD 1RXrssACroNe-PooR DAYS IN THE
AUCTION Iaoo,is-soME NEW SALES.
The denressiun in the realty market. for the
time being at least seems have vanished entire
H. Beginning With the big sale OF Astor tenement
houses and the big Coe-Havemeyer trade the mar
ket was on the spvard turn all week. and brokers
are more hopetxS OF an Improvement IN business
than they have ieea for many weeks
The secret OF the Aston sale, which set some
people guessing In the first part Of the week Is
undoubtedly that The forty tenement houses dis
posed OF becoming less remunerauVe tnan they
were. and the property IS in need Of improvement
This being the case. and the plot not being de-
srable one for business buildings. Mr.. Aston sells
the lots with their teneDents, 10 man VINO VIII
probably resell tSn to builders witm roS oas Tor Tor
invest the purchase money in city realty OF anotner
Business in the auction rooms throughout the
week dull and uninteresting The lot OF ofeT-
offered came on the market the result OF fore
closure proceedings In these tne paAntins were
was manifested over'parcels in the lower East
Side tenement district
PRIVATE SALES AND NEW BUILDINGS
Collins G. Collins sold yesterday for the j W
Harper estate the four-story brownstone dwelling
No $50 Fifth-ave, lSex76. for $4,000. Mrs.
Matilda T. Goodwin, VINO bought the adjoining
house No. 5si Fifth-ave.. last August through the
r Wilnarth Appleton Res sold TO Charles B.
Matthews for J II Cutberly the sever-story Office
reported price Of $1,000 o>..,
- x & ns soa f2r Nh Sae west For fge
seyenth-st. on private terms
Charles H Schuyler. IN conjunction with J. J.
north side Of One-hundred d-tenth-st. 255 feet
east OF the Boulevard. each &Nl". for improve
Mrs Carrie Bendheim has sold to Charles Rosen,,
Columbus-ave and One hundred and-eghth ST, Mrs
Bendheim taking in part payment No 1864 Ave-
E. o. Beae has sold TO Charles Rosenthal the the
plot on the north side OF
B4oomest three-s9ory tenement house lot 22ax
100 The latter giving in exchange No 20 East one
hundred and -cxeventA-st. five-sory fathouse on
george gorge, Holz tr has sod. 70 Edward S Farrell
The H {. sinshi estateqhas sold to builder SIX
lots on Harrtson-ave. near'Tremont-ave' for about
A ninestory ireproof store and loft building is TO
BE- Su 95 Rchsrd H IN Of Sewp %S from
plans by Robert Maynicke 10 cost 5000 -..
rSn 4 Hays is as
Riverside Drive. leo feet north OF One-hundreo-ahu
The New-York Hospital. at No, West Fifteenth
ST.. will begin extensive alterations new
,he present executive building on eastery end
Of the sixteensh-st side This will be Itzed .9s
wards. A two-story building, Iex76 will be erected aS
%ss Of Isi M ps e Ssen three
high will Immediately adton It on the west.
new hospital will be put up on the Fifteenth-st
side Cady Berg & See the architects.
The Second Church OF the Evangelical Associa-
tor. will soon begin the erection OF brick Ts ana
stone church building the south side or FIFTY
ffth-st us feet west OF Ninth-ave.
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK.
The sales of TWEEN four parcels at private con-
tract were reported last week. OF these the Coe-
Hayemeyer deal and the Norgenthau- Astor pur-
chase together involved sum Of ST. 5000 and six
other parcels sold for SOl-soo making S.oOl.s" for
parcels. ., 40.
In Manhattan and The Bronx the auction sales SAFE,
for the week realized $50 95s, as compared with
81 x Ol3 in the corresponding week OF last year IN
BROOKLYN the auction sales for the week realizei
S5 400 as compared with S116. 40 In the same week
last year. 1900.
These tables compare the conveyances. mort
cages and buildings projected in the three clt'es
last week and in the corresponding week N 1871
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONA-
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