New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
MANY NEW BUILDING RECORDS
ESTIM4TED COST OF STRUCTURES PROJECTE
JANUARY I, NEARLY $44,O00O00
Marked improvement in the Private Sales M0kepoume of Trading
Almost Large IN Early Part of Season

This year is going to be the record year in build
ing on Manhattan Island, unless there should be
startling decrease in building activity IN the re-
naming eight months. More money was spent Tor
new buildings erected in Manhattan and The
Bronx last year than in any previous year Accord
ing to the comparative building tables compiled by
THE Real Estate Record and Guide, the total
number of Manhattan and Bronx buildings Tor
which plans filed from January to April 8.
inclusive, 1,09s. against plans for- 1O4'
structures submitted to the Buildings Department
in the corresponding period Of last year The
estimated of the buildings projected so far this
year was given 443724.435, and for those planned
in the corresponding period OF last year as SSSSS
207 Thus the building plans perfected from January
to April 6. inclusive, call for an expenditure OF
nearly $4,000 600 more than the cost of 1O47
structures projected from January 1, 1905. to April
T. 1905.
A larger volume of business done in the pri-
vate sales market last week than in the previous
week In fact the market almost as active
in the early part of the season
Leopold Well resold last week for Joseph Hamer-
schlag and the F1eischmann Realty Company plot
of forty-fve lots fronting in Riverside Drive from
1920 to 174th SITS, to Seymour Hyman. This is
part of the property formerly known as the Nc
Cormick tract.
He also sold last week for Adolf Iewisohn to
Felix Isman, of Philadelphia. the Lichtenstein
Building, the side of 5th ave-, 90 feet south
Of 45th ST.. lot 5Ox1OO feet This building was
projected by Flake & Downing in 1901. who
sold the land with the plans, 20 B0ehm & Coon.
The latter completed the building. and in 1904 sold
the property TO the present seller. The asking
price was $4,000 and it was purchased for about
that
A client of NJ. & L. Hess bought No . West S4th
st. twelve story modern loft building. 25xsSs feet
The building was recently erected. 1t has been
leased to RanoId H. Macdonald for long term.
Wilcox & Shelton leased for the Cromwell estate
Nos. 800 and 81 West 125th ST. plot with front
age of 30 feet and depth of $50 feet together
with the abuttng property, No. 314 West 126th St,
with a frontage OF IS feet. to Samuel Walach,
cIothier. and Z. Simon jeweer, for ninety-nine
years. with the privilege of a hfty-year renewal
F. de r. Wissman sold to B. Aymar Sands No. IL
East S4th ST., a five story English basement lime
stone dwelling house. 26x10o feet, 25 feet east OF
9th ave.
Donate Piciulo in conjunction with A. Gutenberg
& Son. sold for client John Wynne the row
of twelve tenement houses No. 2S to 25 East 1OSth
St. each on a lot 25x1OO11 feet. making total
frontage OF 800 feet.
Daniel 3. Freedman and Potter & Bro. sold No.
Ill East 57th St. four story and basement house.
2Ox1OO feet.
Post & Reese sold for H. G. Sanford No. 10
East Gath St. a four story and basement brown
stone dwelling house. I7.6x1O05 feet.
Charles Faulkner sold through Collins & Collins
No. 16S East list st. a three story and basement
broWnstone dwelling house, 16Sx1O0.5 feet.
Pease & Gilman sold for c. Grayson Martin No.
81 East 49th st. four story. high stoop brownstone
dwelling house, lot 25x100 feet. The house was
recently remodelled.
The firm of L. J. Carpenter sold for the estate Of
Henry Z. Nesmith to Amos f. Emo No 2S South St.
southwest corner OF Cuylers Lane. five story loft
building. on lot 21x994 feet
Bernard Smyth & Sons sold to G NJ Siverrnan
& Son for a. Suverson the block front on the west
side of Amsterdam from 133d to hath St. hav-
ing frontage Of 200 feet in Amsterdam ave- nv
100 feet in each street. The purchasers will i'm
mediately improve this plot with five six story fiat
houses with stores.
The City Investing Company bought from the
estate OF Anne Stewart Miller No. 81 Cortlandt st
a four story building 24x7 feet, abuttng the prop
erty fronting in Washington and Greenwich SITS
recently bought by the company.
Mann Samuel sold for the Broadway Reliance
Realty Company the block front facing the tracks
of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
from West Seth to 9th St, 20SxSSx irregular to
Richard Deeves. He will erect a stable on one end
Of the plot and tenement houses at the other end
of the parcel.
The Hudson Realty Company purchased the
northwest corner of 149th st. and Mott ave 3lxS0
feet. This corner parcel is at the first subway sta
tiOn in The Bronx. Charles A Weber was the
broker in the transaction.
l. s. & NJ. $. Korn sold the three five story apart.
ment houses, on plot 02.2x1l5 feet at the north
west corner of SD St and Park ave- TO DR. B.
Farquhar Curtis. He gave in exchange the FIVE
story office building Nos. I East 42d St and
the two four story and basement private dwelling
houses Nos and East 41st 81. The two parceIs
comprise plot A feet in each street by about 200
feet in depth. Post & Reese ere the brokers
Angel & Co. sold to clients of Frederick T. Fox
Co the Morris estate tract OF 1870 acres at scars
dale Westchester County. n. v This properfv Is
surrounded all sides with high class countrv
homes. and is said TO be one of the finest unde.
veloped acreage parcels in the town. The property
was owned by the Morris family for many wears
The buyers will probably subdivde the pr6pertv
and sell in high class acreage plots
Mandelbaum & Levine sold two plots. each lC0 AK
60 feet, at the southeast and the other at the
northeast corner OF 9th ST and Lexington ave
This is part Of the old Mount Sinai Hospital DroD
erty. The buyers are builders. They win erect a
ten story apartment house each plot.
Louis Minsky bought through Matthias Radin his
attorney. from Henry j. McGuckin tho Baimorai
Hotel property. comprising the block front on the
east side of Lenox ave. between 18th and li4th
SITS II a 1ve story structure fronting 20l 10 fecf
In the avenue and l25 feet in each street
L. J. Philips Co. sold Tor Harry b. Aiingle No
AZ West s6th ST., a five story American basement
dwelling house. lsxloos feet, TO a client who viii
SIawson & Hobbs sold for Henry a James to
rlIsnt for occupancy IN" four stOTg brownstons