New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-26

REAL ESTATE.
TWO BLOCK FRONTAGEs IN FIgTH-AvH
SOLD FOR IMPROVEMENT.

SOID tOR lMPHONE MENV.
Edward d. Cowman. lawyer. acting for .
client, whose name Is carefully concealed for the
present, purchased yesterday through the firms
Of Peasc & Gilman and Richard V. Harnett &
Co. all the land In Fifth-ave fronting Central
Park. between Ninetieth and Ninety second SITS,
two blocks In extent
The property was purchased in two parcels For
the lower one the eight LOIS comprising the block
front between Ninety-frst and Ninety-seccnd sts..
with FIVE lots adjoining the north side Of Ninety
nrst-st.. Mr.. Cowman is said to have paid to the
owners. Isaac and Samuel Untermeyer. $4,000. Tho
price epaid for the tract above this the block front
between Nnetieth and Ninety-frst SITS. fronting
30 feet in Fifthave. and with a depth Of 200 feet
on the north side Of Ninetieth-st. and 227 feet
the south side Of Ninety -frst-st.. Is withheld
Among the owners OF the lots comprising this par
Gel was H. o. Havemeyer.
The unknown purchasers purpose with tho prop,
erty Is somewhat OF a mystery. Mr.. Harnett denied
specifically yesterday rumors that the real buyer
p " Clarence H. Mackay; that he was Potter ts
bought for an institution Mr.. Harnett said that
The would be G in 6 1eT days ya,
and l12 West Houston-st and No. % to 80 Han
brick dwelling houses, plot ii4xloo The properly
VIII he improved by the erection or sN-story nat
staber & Smith sold for Gum & Grant the new
slx-story apartment-house 5sxs5 on plot bsxlOo at
iirst-st This house stands on one OF the plots sold
last year by Francis NJ Jencks. at the time the
began. The price paid for the lots was considered
high at the time but values have gone higher snce-
William Rosenzweig has sold 10 Adler Herman
the plot OF four lots running through from Amster
dam,ave. to Hamilton Place. 3 feet north OF ono
hundred and forty secOnd-st, Mr.. Rosenzweg taxi
Ing in payment for the above No. 200 Second-ave.
al old fourstory building lot l7x1O.
Barnett & Co. have sold for Percy Barrett TO
George b. Brown the Ave story brownstone single
hathousc lot 16.sx65x70. No. 1855 Lexington
ave, on private terms.
J. + Briggs sold in conjunction with Borgstede
& Klenke, for Edward Rafter, tho fve-story brick
apartment house and store building. lot 25.5x
925a4, Mt the southwest corner Of Nnety-eighth-st
ana AInsterda m-ave.. to Charles Guenther Tor
about $4,000 Mr. Guenther gives in part payment
at a valuation Of about 4.o00 the five-story brick
tenement house, lot 2oXlGO6. No $40 East Fifty
fOurth-st
Miles &; Heller have sold for Louis j. and Mar
garet A Pooler the old buildings at Nos =, y, 81
and Sc Shorlff-st.. on plot S7l2xl0D for $4,000
At the Broadway Salesroom yesterday ~ Phcenix
Ingraham sold IN foreclosure the pot 459SxcDxi6s x
1Oj, Highland Place, running through from IN
dependence to Arlington ave, Riverdale, Iwenty-
fourth Ward and q plot 6O.1i2x2o on the west side
OF Airing 80 feet north Of the above. 10 tho
plaintiff fer 50. 40. -. <
Bryan l.. Kennedy sold in foreclosure the , foIr-
story stone-frOnt dwe,ling-hOuse on lot lSxlV 10
u West Eghtynn hist. 70 the piantin TOT 500 so
Philip a Smith sold IN foreclosure the Two nV seo
story brick fats. plot NxloD Nos: ~" ana go
East hundred md forty eishth-st-, 10 max
Danzinger for $Sl,SA