New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

comparative tables for the periods show
plans for hfty-one buildings. TO cost seoa.5so as
against thirty-three buildings. costing s1,1s53oo.
The comparative tables for Manhattan and The
Bronx for this and last year also show:
TOTAL NUMBER OF NEW BUILDINGS.
ssf;ss Hfs ssssa Jan Jan to to July July g. g. s IS
MSDhattas Jah To End snS IT The Bronx. ,7a ,s..
TOTAL AMOUNT OF NEW BUILDINGS
Boaa Jan to to July July e.
M1ahatiaS 5ah to gRi1 gnS The Bronx os,
fair volume of business was transacted last
week in the real estate market One of the prin-
cipal deals of the week the sale by Thomas
Aeay the well known restaurant proprietor. OF the
Hotel Lincoln property at the northwest corner of
b2d-st. and Broadway through John P. Kirwan and
Bell q Co. He bought the property about three
months ago from Thomas p. Bresn, of Waterford.
y. Y. who owned It for many years He paid Mr.
Breslin about sS75,OOo for the parcel The present
purchase price was about $4,000 The property is
six story structure, plot fronting 100 feet In
52d-st and in Broadway Mr.. Healy intended to
replace the present building with fourteen story
hreproof hotel
Mr.. Healy has been identified with the real estate
market for some years. 1t learned last week
that he was also the buyer Of the Colonial six
story apartment house, in 115th-st west OF Morn
ingside-ave. West, recently completed by the West
Side Construction Company. OF which Jacob Axelrod
is president Mr.. Heay is also building fourteen
story bachelor hotel at the southeast corner OF
s7th-st. and Broadway. He also owns nine story
freproof apartment house the east side of
Broadway, between 9Sth and 99th SITS.
Another important transaction was the purchase
hv Tirrothv = T>a6der from ire estates Of Mary c.
Warren and Edward H. James Of the Garrick Hstel.
Ms - AHA -os :, 4-d-st., sjXo95 feet He also
owns No. 5s2 to 5s6 7th-av 49.5x1oo feet, which
forms an IL" shaped plot with the Garrick Hotel
parcel. He is also the lessee Of small parcel at
the southwest corner Of 42d-st and 7th-ave.
twelve story freproof hotel, TO be called the Her
mitage, Will be erected by him on the combined
parcels 1t is to cost 100000 Plans for the struct-
ure have been filed by Robert D. Kohn. the archi-
tect.
Title was taken in the week to the Tower suHo-
ing property. No 90 Broadway, and to NOS. a. 40
and 4S Broadway, by the New Street Realty CON-
pany, from John W. Stearns and the Ne"-horH
Improved Real Estate Company. Milton r Deuel.
Of Pittsburg is the president Of the New Street
Company; James A. Simmons. OF this city secre-
tary and treasurer and the other members OF the
concern are A w. Lewis Francis F. whitney ana
Andrew P Morgan. The purchase price was about
81 500 900.
The combined parcels have a frontage Of S1e
feet in Broadway and of 1915 feet In Newest The
length Of the north line is 1910 feet and OF the
south line 1745 feet The Tower Building was the
first skyscraper of steel construction erected IN
this city A twenty-five story ONCE structure may
be built on the site in the near future
Plans were filed last week with the Bureau OF
Buildings Manhattan. for the remodelhng OF 'he
Ansonia at Broadway and 73d-st., owned by W.
E D. Stokes. New ornamental dormer bay win
dows Of terra Gotta and copper are TO be puNI at
the fifteenth. sixteenth and seventeenth STORES
and some os the dining halls are to be ehlarseu'
The improvements are TO cost S1Oo,ooo Inc archl-
tect is A. Wallace McCrea.
Plans were also filed for the new studio building
TO be erected by the Arts Realty Company at Nos
11s and 12l East 1sth-st. for the Arts Club IL IS
to be freproof structure Of seven stories win d
mezzanine floor having frontage OF 1913 leet ana
a depth of s2.1O feet. Tho facade VIII De Oh Scup
rred BelleviIle gray rock at the first story ana
ornamental brick with terra Gotta trimmings
above 1t is 10 have Gothic entrance Ihe
building is TO cost 100000. The architects are
George B. Post & Sons
7, was also learned last week by the ming OF
mans that a church and parochial buildings are to
he erected for St AichaeFs Roman Catholic Church
by the Pennsylvania and New-York and Long ISL
and Railroad companies. The old church and par
sb buildings at the northeast corner of 3lst-s and
sth-ave were bought by the Pennsylvania hailrcad
Company carry out the plans for the Pennsyi-
vania tunnel station.
The new buildings will occupy the plot No. IA to
42A West 34th-st., extending through the block TO
No 400 to 429 West s3d-st. They will comprise a
three story church. 1--WE story rectory, five story
convent q six story school and three story vestry
The buildings are to be OF ornamental brick.
trimmed with limestone The scnoo Is 70 nave & T%o
group of buildings is to cost $4,000 N lie Brun &
Sors the architects.
tention was the sale by Ernestus Gulick to Estate
Agents. real estate operating corporation, OF
the Caroline Sharp property between Fort Hamil-
ton and Bath Beach II comprises more than two
hundred and fifty lots with frontage OF LOCO feet
on Dyker Beach Park
The property has been owned by the Sharp fam
ly. of California, for many years, and was never
offered by the estate until recently. It had
been thought for long time that the city would
take this property for addition to Dyker Park.
The corporation will Immediately cut streets through
nd deVe he understood
price paid more than 100000
THE Real Estate Record and Guide" says In its
last issue regarding the real estate situation In
part follows: The real estate market has at
The number Of transactions reported Is extremely
small. and their Importance is smaller still. Nine
out of every consist Of 1athouSes and tenement
houses. in which certain amount of trading is
always taking place; but the market is exhibiting
tendencies. The demand for vacant lots
remains meagre: and indication is being afford
the fall In the meantime brokers are beginning 20
be very busy with the fall renting, and upon the
results of this business the building operations of
the coming season will largely depend It Is
very satisfactory all the city, and in all kinds
OF property II is possible for landlords Increase
rents still further in many instances; and there
no indications Of oVerbuilding IN any i'm
portant kind OF Improvement This fact assures
another year OF wholesome activity in New-York
real estate. The pace will probably be a little
season. because there will not be the same excuse
for speculation in vacant land: but dminution
in the amount OF speculation I'm unrnproVed prop-
erty compared TO the amount Of building and in
vestment operations will be a benefit rather than
drawback to the market"
BUYS APARTMENT HOUSE FROM PLANS.