New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-27
REAL ESTATE.
RIVERSIDE DRIVE IMPROVEMENTS THE
BRIGHT SPOT IN THE MARKET


OF DwE1I.INGs-NEw PLANS FOR
ELABORATE HoMrs-THE
WEEKS SALES
II -o,l estate men dealing in the better class OF
,,oner,ies IT, most interesting spot in the city a;
,h. nresen, time Riverside Drive and that part
~ tho West side Immediately its borders. De
ye'oopoent aong the Drive has come rapidly in the
Iss: two years and each has promised better for
the parkway alouE the river than the last. To-day
some Of the handsorcst houses in the city are sit
uated along the Drive and In the streets immedi-
siely adiorinS H. and each now house planned 20
occupy tho few plots We, Jema ming unimproved
seems to he moro elaborate and costly than TINT
announced before Il.
Attention has been drawn in the last week the
handsome dwc.liu= ho'sse Nhich Mrs. Alfred Corn
northeast corner O.. Eighty ninsh-st and the Drive
This T. IS eXreottd "! be ne fines dwelling house
come known tnat Gotttried Picl, Of BROOKLYN VIII
spare no expense in the snfa Ter house hi IS about
70 build at he nnrthwest e9rner OF Eiehty-pinth-st
and the Drve IT, pans tor the new homes to he
seveniy-ninth SIS. are not YET completc. but hey
Vii. be IN keeping with tho style Of the beautiful
S Of me ne DrSe ana IS ad ,hsf he Vii Xii invest
ever 10000 in the thirty he has planned.
every FOO, u available space along Riverside Psrx
Is occupied enc II, work Of ds,e opment along the
ht found within the limits Of the new park by the
ness men second only in wealth and Influence TO the
colony in and around Fifth-ave. south of Central
most beautiful in ire world It is the Victoria EN-
hankment along the Thames. with nohler river
beyond and last. bur not least a GEAR Sky un-
dimmed by the smoke OF many soft-coal fires above
Apart from the hiC trade successfully closed by
George f Read the market last week presented
10 particularly interesting features Many brokers
report heavy transactions on the point Of being
ness among investors to lie ~ ready money at tie
present. time. when \ war with Spain is SO prob
failing IN th seG %moe Of %
reported and in The money value Of those in which
the consideration VAS announced last week. as
compared with the previous one.
Auction offerings during the week brought ont
property that had been previously announced tor
sale was withdrawn. partly on prospective bids and
sac Under forecosuro the painiiNs were aS
petition Tor No. 1.4Ss Avenue A. offered by strong
Twenty-eie hjh-s,. offered. in partition by Rich
ard V. Harnette The house Of Oscar Hammerstein.
so.d in foreclosure by Peter F. Meyer. and brought
considerably less than the amount of the obliga
LATEST SALES BY BROKERS.
s V r Cruger & McVic&ar sold for James G
West Twenty siXth-st lot 25xl0H private terms.
Psase & Ellim1n sold for Mrs. Lewis May 10 a
client No. p West Fifty-sixth-st., four-story
brownstone dwelling, 25x7ox1oo for about 5000"
Abraham R Wolf sold No. l22 Park Row. a four
Hin; & Mills sold for w & j. Bradley. 10 Mr.
C0zzens No. "a West Seventiet hist. four-story
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dwelling, l6x6tnl@. for about
Charles II Taylor is said to have sold Nos. 43
and - East Ninetetnth-st.. an eight-story sbding
lot 5xSo. but this transaction cannot he con-
The trustees of Sailors Snug Harbor sold the
ieasshod pT9geTy No Is Clinton PS SS u III 2la
prove win s!x-story brick. stone and terra-cot'a
Parrev & Golden and NJ Rosenberg sold 70 Jones
e. Co. through Henry Wise, No. % James-st.: a
touI-story brick building, 2oxS5x'9&SS running
through to w-Chambers-st -,
No $50 West One-hundred- and fifty -ninth-st. a
three-story dwelling house. l5xiOxss.n.
Bibby. for improvement. the vacant plot on the
north side Of forty -second-st 75x
Ia 900 feet west OF the Boulevard.
plot on the east side OF Washington-ave, 50x15 80
feet north OF One-hundred- seventy on
private terms.
Neubeck & Rusher sold TO George stolz for Daniel
Hoffman. plot In Terrace Place. 90 2x129x59 2xl5
70 feet south OF One-hundred land -hftysecond-st.,
$500. No. 1881 Webster-ave three family fat
Realty Company to v. 7. Buffum plot OF the
Shepard property al South Ferry for Improvement
and rented the Cottenet house 10 George W Kidd.
the Cyrus W Field homestead to Arthur Won Brie-
sen and the Beauchamp place 10 James Bishop. the
last for a term OF years
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
The auction sales in Manhattan and The Bronx
las; week realized s497794 as compared with sss634O
In the corresponding week Of 1897 IN this city In
Brooklyn the auction sales realized $50 422
pared with s22s,Zsi in the same week of 1897
These tables compare the conveyance mortgages
and buildings projected In Manhattan and The
Bronx In the spending weeks Of 1898 and 1897:
CoNVEYANCES