New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05
THE WEEK IN REALTY.
Many Large Iransactions-4dams
1actiOn Sale Feature.

Many big transa ctions marked the last week in
realty one OF the principal deals the sale
OF the Chester A. Arthur property by Parish Fish
er, Mooney & Co. and +. De r. Wissmann to Low
enfield & Prayer. The property comprises plot Of
fourteen lots. 20x175 feet being the block front
the west side of Broadway. between 1asth and
i3sth SITS, opposite the Montehore Home and
block north Of the 157th-st subway station.
This property was bought by Chester A. Arthur
in 1857 Jointly. with Judge William Fullerton In
1872 in the spring following the year in which
Vice President Arthur succeeded to the Presidency
he purchased the interest of his partner Judge
Fullerton, and thereafter sole The
property was sold by his daughter and son, his
heirs, represented by Maten & Nichols, their
counsel.
Another important deal the purchase by
ErsEine and Edward II. Hewitt. through James l.
Libby from the Nestboro Realty Company. of the
eight story fireproof apartment house. on a plot
eoE125 feet at the southeast corner OF west End
and s9th-st. The buyers control with the
exception OF fortyone feet the block front on the
east side Of West End-ave from 79th-st TO soth-st
A. II Boardman. Frank II. Platt and J. A. Flynn
comprise the selling company.
For the Floyd estate owner Of No. 46 West 34th-
st. William Cruikshank Sons purchased No 49,
plot 5oxs feet which it viii lease for term Of
years The seller was Robert II. Smith. who &C
Smith associated with the firm as broker in
In the week the City Investing Company an
n2Ineed that it would build six story flee and
I'D 10 43d St The structure will ready oCcu-
p9ncy on May /, 1905. The store at the northeast
corner IF 72d-st and Broadway has been leased for
ten years 10 Acker. MeTTall & Condit.
The principal feature of the New-York Real Fs-
tate Salesroons was the voluntary sale at public
auction Of some thirty choice parcels on Manhattan
island owned by Albert J. Adams. the former
policy king, who was recently released from Sing
sing Bryan /. Kennedy was the auctioneer.
Every parcel advertised TO be sold found ready
purchaser. The total obtained was 81 2s2 700
IN actual cash MI Adams obtained from the ss e
ahout S6o)oe as the larger part of the property is
mortgaged To various persons. The salesrooms were
crowded. and late Corners who wanted one or more
of the parcels had considerable difficulty In getting
the aUctoneer's stand.
The preliminary plans have been filed for the bic
store that Mr. Altman is build in the 5th-aye
block from 34th to 35th ST. diagonally opposite The
Waldorf-Astoria The building is to be frenroof
eight stories high. with a stone facade and viii
have frontage OF 1872 feet and frontageS
OF 70 and 5 feet in gath and 18th SITS respectively
Tho cost IS estimated at 10000 The builders win
be Marc Eidlitz 6; Son. ~
Henry Corn found quick market last week for
TnaI IS known as The vanderbilt tract. He resoid
week thT9qgh Charles Griffith Moses & Bro. and
solomon Marcus from Whitehouse &, Porter Tho
tract consists Of three blocks. containing ninetv-
seven lots. including the entire north and sonfb
sides OF 1850 and l5th SITS and the south side
Of ls5th-str extending from Broadway TO Fort
NaShingtOn-aEe