New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-11
REAL ESTATE
o.HP. BELMONT ADDS TO THE SITE FOR
HIS NEW HOME.

THE SUDDEN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MAhhDi
MAINTAINED BY SEVERAL LARGE AND MANY
SMALLER DEAIs-A BLOCK FRONT ON THE
BOULEVARD AND ANOTHER LARGE
RIVERSIDE DRIVE TRACT SOLD.
Real estate business yesterday was little less IN
volume and in importance than " was on ire P'o-
ced,ng 1av The sudden Improvement In the mar
kot was the topic among the brokers yesterday
and though there were few croakers VINO pre-
dicted a speedy reaction, the general feeling was
that the spring business would approach the rec
ord
Contracts were signed yesterday by which oliver
H. p Belmont acquired from Daniel T. Maguire
the lot gxl00 in Fifth-ave., adjoining the plot al
the southwest corner Of the avenue and Seventy
seventh-st recently purchased by him as the site
for his new home. Rumors that Mr.. Belmont IN
tended to enlarge his original purchase were cur
rent and a statement was prematurely published
vest erday that he had bought the additional
ground but the sale not closed until yesterday
afternoon. Mr. Belmont paid $500 for the addi-
tonal lot II will give him for his new home
frontage of 50 feet inches in Fifth-ave. and
depth of 12l feet in Seventy seventh-st, one of the
finest corners in Fifth-ave The lot for which he
now pays $4,000 cost the present seller only No"o
IN 1888 Mr.. Belmont will begin the erection OF MS
new house possible, but the plans are
not yet complete. Smith & Stewart. Of No ID VIII
iam-st are the brokers VINO nave acteu lof MN III
the purchase Of the site.
Next 10 this the most important transaction or
the day in unimproved property was the sale ny
Rose & Putzei of the entire block front In the
Boulevard between One NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ana
One hundred and ninth SITS, for sAOVD cash Inc
name of the purchaser is withheld for the present
by the brokers' but the transaction is likely to be
followed Immediately by building operations or an
important character
G. Ial he
east corner Riverside Drive and Eighty-ninth-st.
1854 the drive by 14S5XlDSXolS on the street 10
a syndicate. which will erect private dwellings upon
It This plot Is opposite the site Of Mrs Clarks
proposed mansion. and bought in MAY. 1896. for
$4,000 The present price is kept secret.
John p Kerwin sold for Zachariah jacques 10
corner of Fifty-hfth-st and Twefth-ave. begin
n be al the Of he npf rnne s
Jesse c. Bennett sold for Andrew j. kerw'n. u
sixty seven feet south of Observation-Disclosures
private terms.
story brick building Nos 4oa and +os East Houston
st and Nos, 2s5 and T secondost' with "a frontage
Boyer Bros. purchased from George Eichler No
23t East Ninth-st. six-story fathouse' ZNl"' lot
bishop McDonnell Of the Brooklyn Cath9lio G GiS
cese purchased from the trustees OF Copea To
ST. near Utica-ave. for $3.50 1t is reported that a
new church for st Matthews parish will be built
James Kyle & Sons sold for L. B. Rosenberg No
$50 TO s43 East Thrty-seventh- three fours0 E
Porter Co. sold the dwelling house at the north
s G;siS'y F'H'A'' FOR John T. p'Tr"sn lot ABOUT
Louis Leee purchased from H W. De Forest a
plot 0xl00 on the north side Of One hundred and
twenty-eghth-st-, S75 feet west OF Lenox-ave.' on
John c, Umberheld has sold No West Eighty
si1th-st.. four-story private dwelling house @x
Orvte B. Ackerly traded for r. H. Handey 10
George D. Bogert the three-story brick dwelling III
~ for the plot 100 ixa5 at the southeast corner of
First-eve. and One hundred and eighth-st.
anna Balkan No. iis East twenty fourth-st
three-story dwellins-house, 2sxe5x1Oo for about
Parker CGmpsGny so,a to Edwa e" ,tst
Francis T. Underhill sold for the Sidney s Harris
hundred s fee' west ,o of
Ms sscRan sold to Mr. oodbs S h sss three
ington-ave:, l9xf. on private terns
George W Levy has resoa the s plot o; four lotas
Nineteth-st.. which he bought from F.. H. Faux
At the Broadway saleercom yesterday II. G.
Mapes sold in foreclosure the plot. 6xllc. in Cot
are Groye-aye east side So feet south or upeh 70
G Hussmann for $500.
Peter F. Never sold in foreclosure the directory
tieth-st 10 John j. Duffy for $3.50 and a plot
5OxoO In Prospect ave- northeast corner OF Berrien
Place Two -hundred-and thirty sixth-st, TO Nor
ris Franklin for 1915
Thompson & Pryor sold In foreclosure the six
story brick tenement house. with stores. N1OxSIK
25xgi 4 No a. Leroy-st.. TO the plaintiff for $4,000
and tho three-story frame tenement house. "A 1oxso
No 16el Park-ave. near One-hundred -and-nin
feminist. to Katy Soles for 1898.
Richard V. Harnett sold by order OF executors
two fve-story and basement brick double fat
houses on plot s511x1l3sx-sss. No 1926 to 132 Gin
ton Place, TO James Cunningham. for SS.4O; the
three-story and basement high-stoop brownstone
dwelling house % 6i9xS2 No 1886 East Nineteenth
st to r Finke for sl9 700: the four-sory and base
ment high-stoop brownstone dwelling house. l4xsS9
No l25 East Thirty-.ixth-st.. to s. W. Swards for
S4 $50 and the three-story and basement high-stoop
brownstone dwelling house l6sX1ool No 60 East
one hundred and feminist 10 George ". Dough-
erty for g. i75.
A. H. Muller sold by order OF executors the three
story brick and two and-a -haf-story frame build:
ings p 9x%.6. No. rs Thompson-st., between Canal
a.,d Gra.a Gtu d.. 81. .ar.z Tor