New-York tribune., 1898-10-30
REAL ESTATE.
SALES FOR IMPROVEMENT THE FEAT
URE OF THE WEEK.
THE PURCHASE IN THE CLUB DISTRICT THE BEST
INDIVIDUAL TRANsACTIoN-BRoApwA AND

AUCTION MARKET
The heaviest business of the last week In city
realty was In vacant lots sold TO buiiding olei-
ators and by them TO builders. and In old proper
ties for improvement The most interesting inu-
vidual transactions. however. were the purchase
of the site in Forty -fourth-st for tho new hohe
of the New-York Yacht Club: the trade OF the
.ou,hwest corner of Forty-second-st. and Mad-
son-ave and the sale OF No 67s Broadway. by Leo
Schessinger. .
In its choice OF the Fortyfourth-st site Tor its
new clubhouse and It's purchase OF the proper'!
through the generosity Of Commodore Morgan the
New-York Yacht Club is only buying In the nat
ural quarter Since the Century Racquet ana
Tennis and Harvard clubs NTH the bnr , IN the
St. between Fifth and Sixth aves.. have become
the uptown club district The price In eniS Of the
value of few feet of ground In this seiect 'er'-
The Broadway sale is interesting; as are dn al
Broadway sales but its effect upon & ad)ohiPbs f ing Mad
ison-ave and Forty-second-st. parcel however ls
significant even discountng the value pldCe1 oS
the seller in the trade his parcel althongn@ @ 6on
the transaction. was fully made up oy ne .e n va
paid three years ago for the property. how ",
ever. and that was considered high even d4r Ne
" influenced by the fact that plans were known 10
be under consideration for extending thee GiarG Ji
Central station Madison ave instead OF adaims Ir
some stories which would have placed the pur.
chase diagonally opposite the station. Even AZ
nriced reaItyNabout sos a square foot-would be
established. and IT will he interesting TO see 10
The auction sales for the week not remark
able either for number or gHay was me rood and
the plaintiffs compelled to buy in the proper
ties in ps4ccs were at
sale OF two % offered S by H5EAh bd IN a. at s
nelly ,S one ss N0 o. % bs 6har Ne g vest Endave
was adjourned. The only other voluntary sales S
eTe fa iha ony ny R
story fla nous Sv peter Pee F. Meye Of 10 s
Forty -siXth-st. a three-story private dwelling
house which was bought by Henry Tetjens for
LATEST SALES BY BROKERS
W. B. Taylor e. Sons sold yesterday for tho
snifin estate No o East Forty-second-st four
story basement brownstone dwelling-house, on lot
3oxloo5. to Daniel B. Freedman, on private terms.
John f. Doyle & Sons sold for A. Newbold Nor
rs and Caroline Orcott the entire block front IN
aSfendpg Wesery to within $iS feet Of Ave
nue. a. The plot includes hfteen lots ana 1r, Two
Which intends to erect brewery on the plot; .
j. f. Briggs has sold for Gibn e. Taylor No %
West Eighty -nlnth-st., four-story dweLlng-house
20xe0x extension xlDS 49,. .h Mot
Onger Bros SOLD 10 Charles MoGTe tne pT'
100 cast Of Morningside-ave. leON" on private
Max Morgenthau sold the northwest corner of Of
Fifth-ave and one e-hundred ifteenth-st a plot
F. G. Potter has sold No. AS West One hundred
and-forty-frst-st., a three-story dveliins-house'
IS iX5ox99.11 49, 10. -, ,b.
Oppenheimer & Hamerschlag sold the plot ton on t[e
norm side Of Ninety-second-st. 125 rect west Oh
Central park West s. sxlO0. to Paul B. Pugh. 49,
s. F. & f. A. Karesen have sold 10 MIS- Mary
Albeit Post. daughter of the late Governor Ao1et
OF New-Jersey. villa plot in Arverne queens Ie
nlot is in Storm-ave.. on the ocean front. Mrs.
post is having plans prepared for $4,000 summer
home This site was purchased from II estate Oh
Jacob Scholl. -. h,u5,ne
THE buyer OF the hve-story stone and loft ounins
No SIS Broadway from Leo Schlessinger reported IN
Yesterdays Tribune is Henry Corn ~ - r..
E. De Forest Simmons has rented NO .. ,iss East
sixty-sxth-st for Henry Black. No; a5l & Maalson-
ave for Russell Sage. No 81 East Fifty-fourth,st st.
for G. c. Moore No. a East Sixty-hrst-st- for
Henry Cutter No. 4s West Flfty-second,st- for the
RIniev estate No 120 East Fifty-eighth-st ior d
Nv vons No col Madison-ave. for j. {: L. Mott'
M ~ Fast Fifty-seventh-st for Miss Long. NO;
i23 East Fifty-seventh-st for the Dyett estate do
No "a East Sixty-second-st
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Forty-four parcels Of city realty were SOLD last
week the considerations In nine cases amounting
N s517 ono The corresponding figures for the pre-
ced,nr week we're Il parcels sold. % for total
In Manhattan and The Bronx for the week the
auction sales realized s2443S0. as compared VIII
sS3 S5 in the corresponding week of 1897 In Brook
W. tho auction sales realized S19,2Io. as compdleu
ub ss 467 in the corresponding week OF last year,
and Suidings projected during the week IN ,i ine 2
three boroughs with those in the corresponding
week Of 1897