New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
THE WEEK IN REALTY.
HIGHLY SATISFACTORY TO BUYERS AND
SELLERS,
MANY SALES OF UN1MPRovED PRoPERrY-Ac'
rrv1rY IN THE AUCTION ROOMS

The showing made in the real estate trace last
week was a notably good one. and from Monday
,.r.,v an extremely dull day. until yesterday each
dav.s business had items of interest. The trading
was general in character, and business buildings
Ax,elng-ho houses apartment houses and vacant lo's
changed hands every day. with profit 10 the sellers
and with evident satisfaction to the buyers
The distinguishing feature OF the week was the
continued activity in unimproved property. The
.neculative purchase Of the block front OF eight
lots on Riverside Drive between One-hundred-and-
nth and One hundred andsixth sts together with
four and eight lots adjoining In the streets ana
the sale 'for investment OF the block on the east
side Of Broadway between Eghty-ffth and Eighty
s,xth SITS were the most noteworthy deals in this
kind of property In addition. however. an S2-foot
Mot in Riverside Drive SO feet north OF One-huh-
dred-and- seventh-st. sold; the southeast COT
ner OF Elghty-second-st. and the northwest corner
Of Eighty-seyenth-st. and Broadway chanseo
hands: the south corner OF Central Park west aho
One-hundred- and seventies with three iots az
Joining in the street. figured in a trade ana io'
IN FYfth-aye 76s feet south OF Eightleth-s''' was
bought for residential improvement In connection
with the last item 1t stated that the price palo
for the 25-foot avenue frontage was SoVe'V' VIM
the lot on the north was sold Tor less tnah ''V'''
not a month ago. +,
sale involving Nos S13 and $40 Broao"ay -
worth noting as 1t indicates that the reviVai OF
interest I'm real estate In this oistric'' peeui '
ago has been well sustained
The two principal foreclosure offerings OF 'he
week were the Gerlach Hotel. No. 40 to 80 West
rwenty-seventh-st.. and the Morse Building nor'h-
east corner OF Nassau and Beekman sts both were
purchased by the plaintiffs
In the last week transactions involving eisnS
seven parcels OF city realty closed considera
.,ors hs,nc riven in seventeen and amount
ing TO 81 3s2 COO In the preceding week eghty-'"o
parcels were sold eighteen for total considerations
Of N.5l,5 500. .,oa
The auction sales for the week amounted to ~ d.
60 as compared with si73279 for the corresponding
week last year.
NEW PRIVATE SALES
William H. Bliss has bought from Mr.. Brown
ing the four-story and basement brownstone-iroht
dveIlne-house No 10 East Sixty-ffth-st for about
$4,000 Mr. Bliss recently bought Nos 8 and IN
the same street and the present purchase COM
pletes a $3.50 30 transaction.
A report printed yesterday in real-estate paper
that deal had been closed for the purchase OF the
old Delmonico property at Fifth-ave ana I"eh'y-
seventh-st and Broadway. was denied.
IIoldridee e. Ward have sold for e. A. norman
the fve-story business buildings Nos. SS anu 90
Broadway. The property has frontage OF 'V lee.
on the west side OF Broadway, so feet south %
White-st and runs back $50 feet to Franklin flace,
unon which II fronts 80 feet In the neighDorhood
of 1925 900 is reported 10 have been the price paul
George r. Read has sold for the Livingston es-
tate TO a Mr.. Goldng the seven-story once ouiio
ing Nos. ~ and a Newest
som Bros have sold to Joseph Buttenwieser LOT
Improvement four dwellinghouses, 76xlOSS NOS '17
sS s2s and $50 East Fifteenth-st
Fitzs,mons G. Smith have sold for MIS- Ellen
C. Fallon to a firm OF builders. Nos lS2 ana l04
West Forty-seventh-st The purchasers Will eree'
q ten-story apartment house
NJ 7. 4. c. Ernst have sold to Louis Gilbert the
northeast corner Of -nrst-
ST. and Brooke-ave.. 100x10o. The purchaser VIII
Immediately erect four four-story fathouses
V. Ioew has sold to builder plot. loonx
o. at the northwest corner Of Madison-ave' ana
Ninety-seyenth-st The purchaser will erect a
seven-story apartment-houss
E. j. yelling jr, has sold for Lioba Miller 10
Patrick J. Ryan, tho plot at the northwest corner
of One-hundred- twenty -hrst-st and Lexington
H. & H. Som are reported to have sold to an
investor, at about $4,000 the business building at
the southeast corner OF Greenwich and Harrison
SITS. on lot aO2xss 4x22 2xs02.
Charles NJ. Rosenthal has sold to Joseph oden-
hemer the lot on the south side OF One.nundreo
Miles Heller have sold for the estate Of Owen
SGnns The s aFe and 0 T East
forty-second-st.. Wflisave.. to Frederick
Joseph L. Buttenwieser has bought No Ills Ei-
dridge-st, old building, lot 25x1oo ..
ssvenhs sxsiOrg lot 2ssS
II is reported that about forty lots have been
cold in the block bounded by Avenue a. v seventy
Folsom a brothers sold for John w. Smith No %
Perry-st.. a three-story house. on lot S01S'' 10
, sSS hs FROM So East g
IL to Moses shednsky Nj Fsshe takes Il
chrystie SITS. four hve-story buildings. plot 7Oxlc
He Immediately resod them to John 9uast ., Msr.
rii &ui Rogers O' for $3.50 the plot xlO the
west side OF Webster-ave.. about 200 feet north OF
sehd has sold for the S aTsnS e.
6uburban-st and Decatur-ave
BANKING AND OFFICE BUILDING.
Hallgarten & Co, bankers and brokers at Nos, rs
and Is Broad-st., at the northwest corner OF EA-
change Place. have purchased the property Oh
which they have been for many years the prihcipa
tenants from the heirs of Frederick Prime. IL ~
an old fve-story and basement plain brick DuAdlng
modern banking and office building may De puiil
Adler & Herman and Som Brothers sold 10 r
Bookstaver the plot 10oxl00 northwest corner OF
PaTk-ave and Nnetyeghthst for improvement, s ne ut
payment three athou:es on the east Ss
side Of Thrdave M feet north Of we ot en ~.
east side Of Jackson-aye.,. Us feet north OF one
''I Henrietta BIN sold Nos 43s and 40 Boulevard
two fve-story double fathouses;
lot so1iis. at the northwest corner Of Southern
Boulevard and Perry;ave =, sv
100 on the south side Of Nlnety.ninth-st. rs feet
west OF Central Park West. for improvement with
F. J. weling. jr., sold the northwest corner Of
NJ ESaS for sba i Me
John F. James & Son sold tor Franklin E. Moore
10 John j. Sponers for 1900 the three-story and
basement brownstone dweing-house No. 14S West
The northwest corner Of F1rst-ave and Seventy
eeventh-st.. with four-story building. has been
purchased by Mr. Lippe for $1,000
The Leonard Moody Real Estate Company. OF
Rrooklyn has sold for Cornelius ID. McKiege TO
Andrew Meurer;. the four,and, story red
atone front dwelling house, 26x7010, No 3l3 Car
aed Place for 10000: also. for James F. Fradley.
TO Elizabeth p. Walsh, the four-story and base
rnent dining-room extension brownstone dwelling
house 2Ox6oxl00 No 10 Eighthave., for $4,000 also
for p f. Delaney TO T. D. Hurst, the vacant plot.
on the south side OF Garfield Place. between Eighth
and Ninth ayes, and for Anna Walker, 10 NJ
Krim, the three-story and basement frame build
ing 25xlOO No. 43 Tilary-st., for $500
a old hav n a Manhattan