New-York tribune., 1906-03-25
MANY HOUSES SOLD.
Omcb Market also for Factory Sites
IN East End .4Uenue.

ing streets which cross the Park avenue tunnel
section continues feature of the realty market
This movement has already resulted in hundreds
Of old houses being made over into American base
ment dwellings Many more old houses are either
to be torn down in the future to make way
for modern structures to be altered so as to
have many modern improvements
For months this movement has heen most
marked in the 7os, between Park and Lexington
avenues In view Of It's vigor some houses. for in
stance, which could have been bought for $lS"o
last year have found a ready market at $4,000.
large number Of the houses which have changed
hands occupy much less than city lot In I'D
street the movement reached two weeks ago as
far east as I'd avenue, and in the week Just closed
Il has swept with amazing speed through 5oth
street, between Lexington and Third aNe"ueS
Douglas Robinson. Charles s Brown & CO. sold In
the week in the section Of 56th street the follow
ing houses: Nos 1t7, l49 80 l4i, $50 ioz 49t ana
l5S The sellers were ". B. Anderson Wolf Bor-
roscheck Esther Kemp, Annie Mcguire, y u.
wilkins and Mary Scholhof All the houses are TO
be remolelled into American basement dwelling
houses and this part of 5sth street Is 10 be MADE
into nigh class residential section
one of the leading features of the market IN the
week ended March Il was the big purchasing move
raent in and near East End ave, direct result of
the splendid improvements which have been made
in that section by the city. A person who mas not
visited this section in years would be surprised at
the marked change for the better in the appearance
OF the district. Controller Metz said at a recent
meeting of the Rapid Transit Commissioners that
many manufacturing concerns, which would have
built large factories in this city if there had been
suitable sites, had been forced TO build in New Jer-
sey. where the facilities for handling freight were
then much better than here. From the 5sth 81.
approach to the BIackwel's Island Bridge 70 Slst
ST. East End ave. extends along the East River
The avenue is 100 feet wide It's entire length, and
along it Il big sea wall. recently built. and
As fine public piers were ever constructed by the
CITY With such good piers there will be a large
saving i'm the cost OF shipping freight from the
district
Within short Journey by water from the sec
tion is Long Island City, where the Pennsylvania
Railroad is building tunnel terminal station for
use Of passenger ard freight trains. When the ter
rainal station and Yards completed II will be
possible to ship freight direct. by all rail route
from Long Island City 10 nearly AL parts Of this
country. At Port Morris the New York Central
and New Haven roads improving their freight
facilities All these freight projects will add 10 the
attractiveness Of the East End section of Man
haitian Island a factory district
Two Of the largest purchasers in the East End
ave. movement are Gutwillig Brothers and Joseph
Hammerschlag They bought last week through
John F. Doyle & Sons and Edward L. King Co
the block front Of twenty-five lots in Exterior s.
from I'D 10 7ith st. This property fronts in the
new Exterior ST. or East End ave. The Jones
estate. the seller. owned the property for more
than a hundred years.
EdEard /. King & Go. have also sold for Win
lam R. Rose 10 Edward c. Sheehy, eX-TaX Com
missioner, No. 16S 174 East 94th St. four
S62y 6 s T a92Hs F2sT % 90 p z9q e e and
northwest corner Of Avenue A, four story private
George Ranger sold last week for Samuel schater.
The banker t6e north corner OF S5ta st and River.
been held az 100000. The seller owned the prop
I; Phillips & Co s2ld 70 client for Mrs. F. B.
Peale No 6S4 West Eud ave q six story American
basement dwelling house. 22X i2X5A feet.
Plans We're filed in the week for making over the
st.. owned by the estate Of DAVID " Bishop into
a six story structure, with elevator service. A
65d 96e Interior 70 Tenodeed The mprovemeg eT9rfi
are 10 cost 100000, according 70 the estimate Of
Herman RiddeT proprietor n the "Staats Zet-
on the west side Of Elm 81. between Duane aud
ti Tilnc n tba % lie ne rsei b
Of the newspaper at Centre ST and Tryun Row for
Stats zeitung" VIII he built IN the Elm St block
Henry Nioholsberg sold the victoria a seven
story apartment house on 2 plot ssllxloo feet at
In part payment he took lots in St Nicholas Place
extending 10 Edgecombe ave.
Mrs. Mary Hester leased to John I. shanley for
twenty-one years the Strauord, an eleven story
apartment house. Nos. II and Il East 32d st. ~
a net annual rental Of $500 The house is ON the
north side Of the street 2oo feet east Of 5th ave.
J. y. Kslley & Son sold for the Fort Amsterdam
EsaltE COMPANY 10 o Client, Of oorhees & FLOYD
Du Bois & Taylor sold tor sjmons & Harris 10 an
estate, as an investment the two i've story triple
ave. southwest corner of liSth ST This makes the
third sale of this property in the last month The
houses are a plot 50xq9 II feet
Frederick Zittei sold No 222 West End ave a
three story dwelling house. l6x7o feet. for James
William A White & sons sold for the estate of
Thomas sqneTn TO client No 81 John ST, four
story loft building on lot 2i1No5 feet This Is the
first time tins property has been transferred in
Bernard srnyth & Sons sold for Charles T Bar-ev
to Simon Sichel No S2Sl 70 32Ss- Broadway. north
west corner Of l32d St, Eve double hathouses win
Broadway by 100 feet IN 132d S.
Arthur 2. silyerman bouR4t from Mark Ash.
through Max Max. the block front the east
q plot. 95loNllo feet Plans are being prepared for
the erection Of I've six story houses on the site
p X. Van Wrinkle bought for client. through
j. clarence Davies III" Rauch tract of twelve and
Road ana Bear swami Road tbroIr %I " I nJG Plains
the new White Plains Road extends Mr. Van
Of The tract which is 10 bo GiGe5 inr IA , Ie resale
Greene & Taylor sold for the COMMONWEALTH Real
i9th St four story ana basement - t-35i
dwelling mouse. .X6i feet adjoining tho southwest
Tho Lands Purchase Company filed plans for tho
eTectlSn OF -'-S''TE once building on the prem
Irregular plot. fronting 81 feet in Wau srra, an an
about 3o feet deep the westerly line and 1l7 fear
square feet The building wEicf vim 'pouI b ,1',l
arChitact of the Trinity and EToir III k'ha
have a facade I'm the style Of Italian Renaisrar,o q
composed OF granite and indian limestone Tho
will connect on each floor directly with the tu-oni
three story Wall Street Exchange Building Uh:,
the proposed structure The reutabc area Of eac
basement and ground floor win be occypieJ l t
trust company OF America which controls tb-
viii be il is said one of the finest ever Sotstrc.s
II VIII nave ceiling height OF thirtv-one feet ana
mezzanine gallery on the a-steri, sida 1li t'N
general contract for the constr1icttor' ~ ~ t
ing has been let 10 the George a. Fuller Corlpan-
INVESTOR BUYS DUANE ST. BUILDING
B Goodae Son have sold for W : Patte,
n an f1V-ea 2