New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-07
REAL ESTATE.
BROADWAY PARCEL SOLD-POOR BUsT
NESS IN THE AUCTION ROOMS

Except for the sale OF one valuable parcel in
Broadway and reports Of two other transactions OF
fair proportions. there was little business OF i'm
portance In the real estate market yesterday.
George r. Read sold for John Howard Wright TO
a client for investment No l,lGs Broadway, a four
story building covering plot about 265x5s. on the
east side OF that thoroughfare between Twenty
seventh and Twenty-eighth SITS. The sale Is for
cash. but the price and the name OF the purchaser
are both withheld.
Frank G. Wise reported TO have sold to an
investor row Of seven four-story limestone front
dwelling houses the south side of One hundred
ard-thireenth-st, Just completed by him. The
houses cover plot l25xl0o beginning about l25 feet
east of the Boulevard. The price at which they
change hands was rumored yesterday to have been
In the ncighooihood OF $4,000 but the brokers
sale and declined to discuss the value OF the prop
erty.
estate had sold the northeast corner OF One-hun-
d-and-thrty-hrsl-st. and Amsterdam ave. plot
100 feet deep. to a arm Of building loan operators
The report, however. could not be confirmed.
loney the fathouse No. 50 West One-hundred ana
twenty-hfth-st for a country house and grounds a;
Samuel Goldsticker who was until recently with
the urn o. OF T. j. Philips & Co. s has sold o for the
Fortieth-st. four fve-story apartment-houses each
2JXgSs on private terms.
to Charles Leichtowler No 81 East Ninetyhfth-st..
hve-story brick double fathouse 25xsoxlOo for $50
house at Fernwood. n J.
The Ernst Marx Nathan syndicate has sold to
William ]. Murray, on the south side Of One-hur-
dred l'5 feet east OF the Boulevard.
for $4,000
Lowenfeld & Prayer have sold for Lena David
son No. POI Chrystie-st. sx,story double tene-
ment-house, on a lot 25xioo and have also bought
from NJ. p. Waldman the northwest corner of
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The Washington Heights Club. OF which Justice
large building at ST. Nchoas-aye. and One-hun,
dred-and- forty sixth-st. for clubhouse, ana VIII
make extensive alterations.
OF the five parcels offered for sale at the Broad,
way Saesroom yesterday only two were disposed
Of the others being adjourned on account OF the
little interest displayed in the offerings. 49, -
Eas, Fifty-eighth-s,.. four-story dwelling; near
Fourth,aIe. on plot about 0sxlg' Ireguiatr' 10 70
Protestant Episcopal Church in New-York for
The same auctoneer disposed OF the, Ave STORY
teenth-st. near Pleasant-ave.. 2O5xlco.l in fore
closure 10 Mary W. Straley for 5000
mechanics len for SOS, LIB was MED yesterday on
the southeast OF Duane and Elm SITS, against
Albert Wagner the owner, by Patrck McCate,
doing business as McCabe Brothers: VINO has IT. the
amount OF the lien is s6s,l1S MI McCaoe mas cone
work only 10 the amount OF sl3Iio on he regular
contract and a,673 extra work. The building IL up
to the second story. Work continued there all day
Plans are being prepared for a new office building
to be erected at No Il Wilam-st. by Arson Phelps
Stokes for the MagdebuIg Insurance Company
lessees. and to be known as the Magdeburg Build
ing. The structure will he Of granite and IRON with
terra-cotia front and all the latest improvements $,
and an entrance will probably be cut through into
the Queen Building. which adjoins 1t on the south.
The cost Will be about $4,000.
Ten shares of Real Estate Exchange Stock were
sold yesterday at only Is a share. TO the great
surprise OF many real estate men.