New-York tribune., 1906-04-29

market last week. In the Claiin block one pdlcel
Sold it is said. at about SlS7 square 1901
which is reported be record price square Ioot
for the block
revival of interest in the Clafin BLOCK was Iot
unexpected. large number of retail business con-
have found that if they do not get sites N
the future for their use in central 0th
ave. or IN adjacent streets their business compe;-
tors. with such sites improved with modern ouiid-
ings will command much better class OF custom
ers and a more paying trade than they Ihe ma
jority of these are now looking for sites
in these sections. Had they bought land in the dis
tricts two or three years ago they would have paid
considerably less than present prices. In view OF
this renewed activity many conservative real
estate would be surprised if the selling
price of property in the districts next year was 20
10 % per cent higher than now.
The area Of the central 5th section is not
large is that of the adjacent streets pro-
digous Scores of other big retail houses In this
city VIII PROBABLY at early day seek home in
the central 9Th ave. section in nearby cross
streets. Some will not be able To get a home in the
avenue because of the small length of this choice
retail shopping district. They will have to be con-
tent with home in the side streets. and maybe
in the most undesirable streets, of the dis
trcts Robert E Simon. business associate of
Henry Morgenthau in the real estate business, in
speaking about conditions in shopping district
OF 9Th ave. said II know seventeen big out-of
town drygoods houses which desiroUs Of getting
spacious home in 9Th ave- but there only
few sites large enough for them for sale" 1t may
not be long before similar conditions prevail in the
central 5th ave. district
Robert s Smith sold last week to Bonwit Teller
& Co Nos. l3 and Is West 34th st. a plot 5Oxl2s6
feet, with easement over a twelve foot alley
way TO S5th street. The buyers will erect a build
ing on the site for their own use. The lot at No Is
is leasehold. having abou. twenty years 10 run.
with privilege of renewals. No l3 was held in
fee Mr.. Smith bought from Jacob Neadle No. "a
West S7th street. three story dwelling house. on
a LOT aN15.3 feet. adjoining the Revillon Freres
Buhding Also bought through r. V. Harnett &
Co, from Mrs. Richard V. Harnett No 81 West
Sith St. four story building, on a lot 24x9S9
feet It is the easterIy house Of the occupied
by the National Arts Club. which will soon move
TO its new home, fronting GrSmercy Park The
westerly house. No. 49, pur chased in the week
by the Bankers Investing Company The price
paid for No. 81 is said have been S25 OOO or al
the rate of about sl37 SQUARE foot which Is the
record price square for parcels in the block
Tie Bankers Investing Company sold Nos. 33 and
50 West Sith ST. TO jOppenheim. Collins & co.
Charles F. Johnson sold the five story business |
building Nos . and p West 34th ST. on plot |
5ox9Ss feet. for about $4,000
Julian Benedict sold for Z. Kumke No. @ West
S5th St. five story altered dwelling house on n !
lot &X'l feet Also sold for fIochsetter Kratzen-
stein to Daniel W. Richmac Nos sc and 53 West |
S5th st. two improved dwelling houses 41x9ss feet
The Albert Booth Cohn Company and Albert B |
Ashforth sold for l. H. Kramer to the Bankers
Investing Company No. a West S5th St an al |
tered building. lot 20x9S9 feet
The McN'ckar. Gaiard Realty Companv Leased |
for Mrs. Juliana Armour Ferguson tn a client No |
20 West 2sth St. four story and basement brown
stone dwelling house lot 25x9S9 feet The lease |
is for term Of twenty-one years. with renewals /
at an aggregate rental of about $4,000 The prop
erty will be extensively altered for business pur
POSES
Parish Fisher & Co sold for Henry S. Wilson ~. |
four story dwelling house lot 15x9S9 feet. No es |
West S6th ST. $50 feet west of 5th ave. to George
Ni1hp
has plot 45xSS9 feet. He purchased Nos % and 81
adjoining on the east, through the same brokers |
early this month All three houses win be con- |
verted to business uses. Parish. Fisher & Co have
also sold No. q West 25th ST. e1x71 feet to John
Clahin. who was represented in the deal by Albert |
B. Ashforth
Davis & Robinson sold for a client No y Fast |
ISd St. 226Xlo2.2 feet The buyer viii erect mod
ern dwelling house on the site for his own occu- |
pancy.
The United States Realty and rnproven,ar, Con,
pany sold to E. H. Landon for occupancy No 20 |
East 5lst St. a four story American basement !
dwelling house. 20xlGO feet
Samuel Goidsticker sold for David and Harry |
IApPmann and d. p. Kaplan No. 4O1 Broadway |
northwest corner Of Walker st. six story busi- |
ness building, a lot 2s Sx1O34 feet 10 Salomor
salomon Lewis Cantor and Max sondheim. as an
he ,i1l auction sale held BY Lewis Phillips Of /. J.
70 tank, on April 49, at the Exchange Salesroom. Nos
IA - ana 10 Nesey st They got the property for
substsntia profit The sum Of the present @'N es az
on the property equals more than $4,000 year
Halls Sons two lots each 25xiIO feet in Fifth ave-.
dwelling houses on the plot John n. Golding was
George Nicholas sold No. 557 Fifth ave. six
investor. Wctmore & MagI and winston Wins, 10 II. II,
chased in Hoyember 1892. from William c. Park
business use. Mr.. Nicholas took title on Febru-
/
P;any to the Five Boronghs Realty Company David
r.. TAYLOR president the Sturtevant, a six story
way and 7th ave. on plot 6&6xicO feet In part
sively in The Bronx and Brooklyn. but win mere
after buy only in the mid town section gives 10
and bounded by East 172d St Fcatierbed Lane
anT aTore FnRIoh M ana nelson Syes The value of the
Mooney & Lawrence sold for Fred +. Himrod No
stoop dwelling house with hrSe 5 sto2S Se9fe G@S
on a lot 2)xl0o feet TO client of Leroy Coventry
client for occupancy. No 266 West sad 81 III fva
story American basement dwelling house l6x55xS45
The International Amusement and Realty Com
at auction Procto1s Ffth Avenue TheatTs ] pB89f5 Bg6
M ing: 10 lSS to llsS Broadway, northwest corner
s3.o!oOO for The property. PAM
SQUARE North four stoTv ' dveIj,o ho hMasangton
plot 27sxl6s5x27.sxl5s7 feet sailors snug Harborr
The Hudson Realty Company purchased from
{ PovD ~ m I, E, ,s anu trustee "f Robert
Flushing. Long Island.
This property owned by the EoRna frmliv
for hundred ve4rs the original owner hay.
ing teen Walter Bovine who was Mayor o. Now
York CITY for four five terms.
The old Bovine Homestead stood in Bowae ave
in front OF il the famous Fox Oak. under
which the Quakers held meetings John sowne a
member OF the family. was one of the leaders Of
the Quaker sect. owing to "A dispute with him
Peter StuyVesant ordered him deported from IN.
colonies because he Quaker. The Fast Tndi,
Company however, reversed the order and directed
the II Bovine IL censured Stuyvas,
The BOVINE farm is In that section of Flushina IN
which there has been considerable realty acti2ft,
recently. NJ Iindheim z Co, John N IIalI1rayy