New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-19
NORE BIG REALTY DEALINGS.
STOCK EXCHANGE AGAIN A BUYER, AND
IMPORTANT SALES CLOSED UPTOWN.
PLOT IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SOLD FOR sl5oOOo-FARMs BOUGHT FOR
DEVELOPMENT ~ BRooKLYN-co-
LUMBIA PROPERTY DEAL
CLOSED

DEVELOPMENT IN BROOhbfN-tO-
LUMBIA PROPERTY DEAL
CLOSED.
The most important real estate deal closed yes
terday was that in which the Stock Exchange ac-
qulres No Brosd-st.. on its northwesterly corner
from the Swan estate, with a View 10 future ex-
tension as told In another column. This was a
$4,000 cash sale but the Exchange bought directly
from the owners and no broker will get commits
sion out OF the deal
In other quarters. however, the activity OF the
market was well maintained Brooklyn suburban
property figuring largely and an important sale
in The Bronx FOR development bein6 closed by L.
j. Phillips &c Co.
The conveyance OF the old Columbia College prop
erty 10 Berkeley School. expected. went on rec
ord yesterday. The revenue stamps show that the
deal involves 100000. Mortgages aggregatng $685.
O00 made by Frank J. Parsons who takes title
10 the property for the school, in favor OF the Bond
and Mortgage Guarantee Company, the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company and 10 the college trus-
tees. Mr.. Parsons also transfers for expressed
consideration OF $4,000 the northeast corner OF
Madson-ave. and Forty-ninth-st 79.sx75x Irregular
to DR.. John s. White, who mortgages It 10 the
Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company in the
sum Of $4,000. All the mortgages are for period
OF two years except the to the college trus-
tees. which has only year 10 run. Or. White has
organized the University Real Estate Company.
with c. W. wetmore. julien T. Davies. George w
Young, Frank ]. Gould and Edmund L. BayIies
among the stockholders, TO manage the property
In the deal Columbia gets ;GO0.ooo in cash. mort
gage for 100000 and an equity appraised $4,000
in the present Berkeley School property in West
Forty-ffth-st for is white elephant" Negotia
lions for the lease OF the northery part OF Hami-
ton Hall 20 the National Arts Club, and for the
sale OF the old library building In Forty-ninth-st
Greene & TAYLOR have already sold three OF the ten
lots in Flfteth-st. 10 two investors. who will build
Plans were filed yesterday for the new building
for the Franklin Savings Bank They call FOR
coping. be erected at the southeast corner
OF E.ghth-aye and Forty-second-st The Plans are
George Z. Johnson. yesterday bought from Archi.
6ald q y R1sse ano George "y shn
drcd-and- iXteenth-st and Seventh and 81. Nicholas
20 Tbe f pTepe %y Is about Ia feet in onehuH
and has about 100 feet front
age in each Of the avenues. 1t Is bought Tor I'M
Hoidridse & Ward sold Nos. 70 and Il Duans-st,;
about $50 feet east OF Broadway fve-story and
basement, iron-front building. about as front, for
the George T. Belts estate to c. r. Hoffman. tr.
Lolor & Bernger sold for Leopold Newborg to
1. Wise the southwest corner OF Park-aye. and
Seventy-fourth-st. a plot with a frontage OF 20
story hreproot apartmentho arranged for four
teen apartments. is TO be built on the site. The
Brooklyn haa an 29rtant share In the cd, days rs
Peter J. Neefus to Jefferson NJ. Levy the Neefus
farm, comprising eighty acres OF land IN me
.2ioO6 The pr,perty runs from the Old cove Road
along East Broadway 1900 feet 20 Utca-aYe ana
IS Mr.. Levy's first large operation in BROOKLYN He
VIII improve the property at once and place It on
The Gernania Real Estate Company. which de-
velOped Nandeveer Park and recently purchased
bought yesterday the w. I. Kouwenhoven farm Of
seyenty-slx acres for SITS 90 FOR future improve
TINS PT2gPeT Ryeb s se9 tDGsa sed
with a frontage lr Flatbush-ave. Of 1900 feet.
lot. in Central t Park f vest g feet south Of sixty
ninrh-st.. to Hrsh Bros. on private terms for i'm
Ro@0e R 81 Co. q, s2d tba the fogr ss5
property NO. 10y riIthS' LOT , S1 1d a. 0au-
an investor the slx-s,ory apartment-hOuse No. 2:S
West Elghty-thrd-st. near Riverside Drive, Ak
s2xo32 The price iI w IN bdo,, w,,tsr. ~.
plot 5Oxi00 the south side OF One-hund red-and-
ffty-ninth-st.. 80 feet west Of Amsterdam-aye,.
with two-story and basement frame dwelling and
Fieischmann & Sons sold Nos. 14is and 1,45l
Fifth-ave.. two nye-story fathouses. Sxlo. for
EdwaTd Hertzog sold to N. A. C. u Levy no iS5
% sxs2 for $500 Mr.. Hertzog recently bought NO
d NahdeI5aum & Levine have bought the south
west corner OF Avenue b and FouTteenth-stg NE NE.
Tese has bought No. ~ Mad.son-st. an old build
ing Ior r Csllen has sold for Kountze Bros TO
James O'Tooe. for improvement the northeast
corner Of Third-ave and one-hundred-and-seVenty
'0 he broadway Saesroom yesterday William
Kennedy sold iE foreclosure the iwo-story ana
baSc-nent brick tenemeut-hOuse. with tWo-stOry
S~,St bullding Ia rear lot 25xsil, No. II Barrow
81 10 the plaintiff FOR 5000.
y I phiilps sold IN foreclosure the three-story
b-f,k iron works on lot 25x1008. No 40 East Nine
tv-drst-st 10 the plaintiff for $lls75.
Strong Ireland sold IL foreeosgre the nye-story
briek fathouse, or lot 25xl0l0. No. 70 East one
hundred-and eighteenth-st, 70 the plaintiff Tor vi
red-and-eghteenth-st. 70 The planun for s22 20
49, .ene.ren,-hoIse with stores. on lot 25.5XJO,
10. US Tenth-ave TO the defendant for g. me
100 srd 70, Fast One hund- ty-seyenth-
sf-No isI TO Daniel POWELL FOR 1900 over mort
o. % OF s2l 90 and interest and No u 70 John J.
fordon for 50 900 over mortgage OF Niepl and IN
terest. by order OF executor the dwelling house on
~. soxr0f No eStA Grand-ave. Brooklyn. 70 II. J.
Rrady for si575 the dwelling house on lot GXl5.
~ + NasSau-st.. Brooklyn, 70 A. F. Farra, ior
- co a - The vacant lot 25xlOo the north side
- srteenth-st i22 1917 feet east Of seventh-aye.