New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-16
REAL ESTATE.
BUSINESS AMONG THE BROKERS AND AT
THE EXCHANGES.

There were rumors OF several large transactions
in city realty yesterday. but when they were IN
Neatgated IT found that no transactions oi
universal importance had been completed
Among other items the interesting announcement
was made that rhe Methodist Book Concern. which
mas for some time been considering the advisapi-
lty of moving its printing plant out Of its building
IN Fifth-ave. to Increase its income by renting
out the space thus saved. viii, not do Its printing
out Of the city henceforth az had at first been
planned. but viii erect new four-story printing
house the lot it owns behind the building.
This lot is % 6xs0 feet in size. About sixty-three
feet Of the old building is to he connected with the
new building, and a floor space of SxS0 feet. ample
ior the purpose Till thus be obtained The altera
ions VII. cost only about 5000 and Work Is 10 ne
Douglas Robinson & Co sold No CT East Fifty
enlrd-sI dwelling house at the corner OF PARK
ave., lbhN3yX extension x9. at price between
10000 and $500
"a an indication that below the surface the
ket ig more active than it has been for morths. It
may lie mentioned that this hrm asserts that since
February l 1t has sold $4,000 worth OF i'm
tho dwellings No. 50 West Fifty-third-st. Nos II
and Il Last sixty second-st. and Nos. and East
rentals 10 the amount OF over Sl9'V -,
northwcs: colner Of the Bowery and Bond-st;. by
6oush t'i the p4 H1Saf in hp G s So for
Leo sc9less.nser is reported 10 haze sod the
or Jcness Alley, Tor $4,000. This property was
sold 10y General Thomas \. Davies in January 10
Thomas G. Smith and by him 10 the present seller
WoH he lot At No. 10 East Sever eenth-st. 2Sxls,
and that at No. . East Seventeenth-st 2x2 A.
No; IS he will erect six.story steel frame store
and loft bu!liing, and nj No. 20 similar building
eight stories high. AZ total cost OF 10000.
j. W. Midget d co. Yesterday sold for j. V. Don
No 13s West One-hundred-and- thirty seventh
st. hve-story apartment-house Soxs7xloo, 70 a
Mrs. Corcoran for about $500
Michael Feeney SOLD 70 an Investor the hye-story
brownstone hathouse No. IL West One-hundred-
and-thiry- fourth-st. on lot 25xssn, taking In
house 10 li3 West One-hundred nd hrty second
ST. on a lot lS9x991l
Terence Farley's Sons sold the four-story and
basement limestone and brick dwelling house, 9x
G0Si,o. No $50 West EiGhy-seventh-s'.. FOR $1,000
LOwenfeld & Prayer purchased from MChaei I.
Buck the northwest corner Of Oliver and Cherry
from Louis knopping the old building. skies 10.
Nos. 3iS and $50 East Thrd-st.. private terms.
At the Broadway Sale room yes erday the four
teen lots in one fifth and One
Wells were all sold. but the prices were less than
the owners expected. The two lots. each 25NlN In
East Ore-hundred and hrty ffth-st., 3Oi.6l feet
from the Southern boulevard. sold 10 Ludwlc;
4 GO. for $3.50 each; two lots. each 2jxl00 IN East
ehunir thirty adjoining to John
Enwist-e, for Si5 each; two lots. each 20XlGD. in
East One-hundred- and thirty htty-s adjoining. to
T. J: Rooncy, for $500 EACH TWO lots each Box
100 IN East One-hUnlred- thirty hfth-st., adj
joining, 10 Martin Tuiey for $i,,0 each; two lots,
each 25Nl01: in East Northumberland hlrty sixth
Malcolm. for s. so each. and FOUR lots, each 2jx0O
IN ono hundred 2nd- thrty-siNth-st adjoining. 70
l. Il Day FOR N,GO each.
William Kennedy sold in foreclosure the four
story stone-front dwelling house. lSx022. No. 100
West Scventysxth-st.. 20 the Plaintiff Tor s26 300
THOMPSON e Pryor sold in foreclosure the five
story brick fahouse. S0x9e11. No. IL East One-hun-
az d-and-thrty-second-st.. to d. p. DENIM, FOR