New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-14
REAL ESTATE.
BIG DEALS IN DOWNTOWN PROPERTY
Under WAY.

In real estate Offices yesterday the air was fuli OF
rumors OF the completion Of transactions long unoer
way. but, although there Is no doubt that the mar
ket has taken upward turn and that tnero Is d
better hope for the closing of than one or the
deals in the downtown section of the CITY, none vi
the brokers interested yet able TO say that con-
tracts have been signed in any single case
One rumor yesterday had reference to a 10000
sale Of Fifth-ave. property. This TRANSACTION was
closed two weeks ago. but the amount involved
was not nearly 100000. as was reported IN Iho
Tribune at the time. Other rumors mad REL
erence q trade in property affected by the Elm
st. improvement valued at ebout ScooN ana 70 "a
ye; closed. although satisfactory progress 10 being
made IN bringing buyer and seller ioeetheT an .ops
may DO revealed within few days o,,
Mrs. Josephine schmd Of No So7 Fifh-ave. took k
improvement company to tho plot Of land at the
10, of t the n S anS by TO
feet on Cathedral Parkway. and on the south rs
S fret paa s sor fSs o Sas i'
Henry NJ Denton has sold the plot Of lots on the
danl-ave, with builders loan Of $4,000 TO J. J..
Osborne who will erect two sevei,s;9ry apartment
Mr. Denton also sold. through J. p. Ketcham, the
tour-story brownstone dwelling. No. 2olO Fifth-ave.
Praasn s.d through J. Ket %s., o the
hundre, and nineteenihst., Zx75x1oo 1t reported
Miles & He!fcr sold for r. II. Moran TO Lowenfeld
g. Prayer No. 40 Gorverneur-st. plot &xS2, with
old three-story brick buildings, for improvement
The price is withheld.
The five-story double fathouse No. 5Jf West one
y-sixth-st was also sold yester-
Thomas Hines. The house covers a plot 3x99n,
and tho purchaser gives IN part payment the three
story brick dwelling No 167 Taylor-st.. BrooKIyn'
20 10x1O0
1t was reported yesterday that Walter Brothers,
OF San Francisco had sold tho lot on the east SIDE
OF Fifh-ave twc1ty-fve feet nortn OF On na,a
dred -fourteenths size 2oXl09. but tho brokers
interested declined TO confirm or deny the report.
Arthur T.. Parsons sold for J. Carlyle Raymond
builder for improvement. the lot. @lAs3 nj me
scutheas; corner OF Audubon-ave. and One-huA-
dred-and-siXty -n!nth-st .,
The Central Congregational Church foTma ~
transferred yesterday for consideration OF SSav.
and the undertaking OF a mortgage OF %2Vo The
property on the north side OF Ffiy-seventh-st, lVl
feet west OF EiCh.h-avc, 7tXi0l. 10 tho Church OF
the Strangers formerly in Mercer-st
The entire village OF Smthvillc. y. j.. Is soon 10
DO sold In order to divide the estate of Hezekiah
T. Smith OF which It forms part among his heirs
Mr. Smiths late home two farms ana about nity
dwellings Will he included in the partition $780,.
~ the Broadway salesrOOm yesterday george
f. Read sold in foreclosure Nos $34 and SS5 East
Thirty-ffth-st.. two-story brick of,lcc anu, 4
coal and woodward, 5)xlCO 10 the plaintiff Tor
$3.50 over end above mortgages, interest and
Peter F. Meyer sold in foreclosure no, 40 Lenox-
ave n three-stOry stone-front dwelling house.
i7xS5. 20 p A. Cassidy. for $3.50. mn
Thompson & Pryor sold IN foreclosure No s.o
Sscoad-ave a fOur-story stone-iron tenement
h-.ee with stores, 205xl0o, to L. {. Smith, ior
Xaran H. Muller & Son sold by order OF eH-
ccufor No : East Fourteenth-st a iire-story 6iicK
building CVan Buren, leascAold). TO George T. ot'''
for s. 800