New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-25

xeek affected parcels in near the Broadway
..r,iep from 23d to 50th ST There were also
..veral important sales in the 5th-ave district
north of 22d-st-, and it was also learned In thu
course of the week that the purchasing move
ynsnt in Marble Hill. begun some months ago.
had resulted in marked increases of values
,tsre and in the perfection OF a well laid plan
"a transform Hill into a choice apartment
house section. About seventeen years ago Mar
hle Hill could have been bought for about
$4,000, it is said. Recently lot in the Broad
way section Of the Hill was sold for about
$4,000.
Slowly but surely the old structures In Broad
wsy from 23d-st. to 50th-st are giving way to
high class modern buildings suita BILE TO the
section. Last week Charles E. Anderson and
Andrew J. Connick bought from the Anderson
estate through F. & G, Pfonlnl, No. 1.1S0 ID
ilS4 Broadway, on the east side, Just north Of
asth-st- The plot has q Broadway frontage of
1s3 feet and depth Or the northerly line of
lis feet This property was held by the An
dsrson family for than one hundred years.
il adioins the Hotel Breslin. and ten or twelve
story office and loft building will be erected on
the site
This IS the fourth large Improvement planned
CT finished within the last few years in this
part of Broadway. The Breslin, on the site of
the old Sturtevant House, was the first.
finished at the southeast corner of 2Sth-st. The
Metropolitan Hotel. at the northwest corner Of
2Ith-st.. will soon give place TO a large Office
and left building TO be erected by Henry Corn.
another important Broadway deal made in
the week was the sale by John P. Kirwan and
William a White & Sons for the Fox estate, to
Thomas J. and Michael J. Stanley, No 1853
Broadway. old building, on a plot with
frontage Of 23.10 feet in Broadway. rear
Messrs. Stanley also purchased through the
same brokers, from Mrs. Ella A. Gray Nos. 224
and DOG West 41th-st, two three story brick
dwelling houses, on a plot 81. 10 by half the
block
These two parcels adjein Nos 1,555 and 1557
Broadway and No. DOB to 217 West 46th-st in
elusive, previously bought by the Messrs. Shan
ley.
The combined plots have frontage of II feet
in Broadway Of 139 feet in 46th-st. and 81 10
feet in 47th-st,. ana comprise about "a 900
square feet.
The Fox parcel was bought by member OF
the Fox family in 1850 for $1,000
Thomas Diamond, a dealer in ironwork,
bought last week, through Thomas Eekerman
Nos 116 rs and 12G West 33d-st-. near Broad
way. The property has q frontage Of % feet
and is 20 feet deep irregular, and Is feet wide
There are two two story stables on the plot
MI, Diamond owns NO. LIS west Sta-st. NLeie
tending from No. 1877 to 14e West 32d-st, No
l47 and 149 West 32d-st- adjoins parcel re
Gently bought By the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
Parish. Fisher. Mooney & co. sold for Eli
abeth schnaieder Fenrieh and oo Margaret Fen en-
the heirs OF George Kreiter the adjoining prop
erty 40 145 West 30th-st-. together 5ox9e9
feet. with old buildings, TO Client for invest
Abraham weigert has sold for H. and Martin
King the FIVE story erownstene dwelling house
11Oth-st,, on a plot 44x1po feet, for ABOUT
100000.
William Henry Folsom sold for John H. Duff
to Joseph J. Little. of the firm Of ]. ]. Little &
Co. a parcel 150x99.S feet, the north side OF
24th-st-. $50 feet east of 1st-ave. The firm will
erect on the site printing house for its own
Bernard sInyth & Sons SOLD for ]. E. Lemon
10 an investor Nos. 453 and 455 West 102d-st-,
between St Nicholas and Amsterdam ayes.
new five story brick and stone apartment house.
J0X14-11 feet
The Bovine farm, on the ireland Mil Road. at
Flushing. sold to a syndicate for S125.0O0,
The farm comprises 125 acres, of which 100
acres are tiiiable land The property belonged
10 Samuel and Isaac Bovine, direct descendants
OF the old Bovine family who were among the
first Quaker settlers at Flushing than 225
years ago. The land skirts the Flushing mead
ows for over half mile and is L. shaped 1t
is considered the highest land in Queens County.
From the hills can be obtained clear view OF
prominent buildings in Manhattan
lyn. Standing on the meadowland in front Of
the property IS the old Ireland mill which has
been grinding grain for farmers about Flushing
Tor two centuries. The mill is owned by MEM
bers Of the Bovine family. II is not included In
the present sale. II is said that the purchasers
OF the BOVINE farm are anxious TO get possession
OF ali the farmland between the villages of
Rushing and Jamaica, for the purpose of cut
ing II up into building sites.
E ee Forest Simmons sold for McCafferty &
Buckley No. "a East S2d-st- to John L. Craw-
ford retired steel magnate. of PittsbuFg, for
about 100000. The property is a five story
American basement dwelling house on plot q
by 100 feet. The house is of steel construction,
and has a white stone front II is one of a
row Of five houses built by the sellers.
Tucker, Speyers & Co and Webster B. Mabie
of No. 236 5th-ave.. a five story business build
ing a plot 2S2 by 100 feet, adjoining the
northwest corner Of 2Tth-st. Mr. Rapallo owns
title 10 No 236 this week from Adolph yaurein.
who bought ID last Nov ernoer from the Southaek
estate.
beth A. whitemore and Agnes NJ. Scoville No.
lSI Spring-sI., q six story front tenement house
and two five story rear tenement houses, on a
~ feet and a depth OF 100 feet. The buyer is
Justice Pairnieri. of the City Court, This is the
FIRST sale Of the property in forty years.
THE Real Estate Record and Guioe' says III
It's last issue in regard 10 the real estate situa-
lion IN part follows:
s'The reel estate market has failed to present
any new points Of interest CURING tiis mee n
be large. and il continues 10 be cohhneo cIleIs .
TO improved properties. Nevertheless, teheIhenS
house building continues al ;apia rac ;,, anu
the indications are that more money WIZ pc
spent curing the year on this class OF iIlpIpt ~.
ment Than during any year IN the previous f' .:
tory OF the city Private reslasil f@ 80 lots
which comes upon the market Is reaoly az
Eorbed at good prices This Bronx property has
the benefit Of lively Interest dt on ofte ene exist in
Manhattan II is improbable that the opefatioti