New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21


was $685. 900 were filed. Thus the realty
tables show at this early date a large increase
In the cost OF projected Manhattan structures
and also in the number OF Manhattan ou0
ings planned. Last year more money was spe"'
in erecting buildings in Manhattan ana ms
Bronx than in any other year. and II tne pres
ent increase is maintained a much larger sum
will be expended for new buildings this year
than last year
Manhattan building operations are wholly re-
sponsible for the pleasing figures revealed by
comparing the statistics for the nrst twenty
days of this and last year So far TINS year 1Ae
Bronx as regards building is far peio" JUS ieN
ord for the first three weeks OF last yeai' Ia
the first three weeks of 1905 there were hied
plans for ninety-four Bronx buildings 10 cosI
81 331 100 Since the first day OF this year 10
date only forty-four plans for Bronx buildings
have been filed and the estimated cost OF those
str,,ctures is $3.50 $50 It is likely that a large
part of the Manhattan building activity OF the
wear will be near the site at Church ana Corr
Isndt SITS on which the terminal station Oh INC
Cortlandt-st. tunnel is being erected Inc Plii-
cipaI purchasing movement this year mas oeeii
in the terminal station district The TWO laFs-
est deals made last week were in that secoo"
On. of the transactions the purchase oF
the Century Realty Company and the United
States Realty and Improvement Company
through Douglas Robinson. Charles = Brown
& Co. of Nos 1T and 179 Broadway ana NO ~
CortIandt-st plot forming an L. surrouliu-
ing the northwest corner Of Cortlandt-st' anu
Broadway for about 100000. The parcel COM
prises three five story buildings The TWO DIoa0-
way buildings have frontage of BOO feet ana d
dentb of 100 feet No. 10 Cortlandt-st has
frontage of % feet and depth of 10 Feet
Frederick Southack & Alwyn Ball. 1r leased
for Mary B. Pell to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
COMPANY which is owned by the CITY invest
ing Company the Benedict Building at Inc
southwest corner of Broadway and Cortlahdt-s1
The lease is a straight thrty-eight year lease
at $4,000 year. with the privilege Vi N"0 10
newals of twenty-one years each
The Reninger estate sold Nos. 10 ana IL
Maiden Lane old buildings, on a plot 4oo1ooh
Irregular feet 40 feet east of Broadway LOT
S265. 600.
- A Rerwin & Co. sold TO Elizabeth Farrei
the four story building No. 1Z3 Fulton-st'' eN-
tending to No. 46 Ann-st- The structure occu-
pies lot 25x120 feet
Daniel B. Freedman bought the four story
building No 40 Nassau-st.. extending to Liberty
place II has 4 frontage Of % feet in Nassau
st It's other dimensions are 701x14lOx60o rect
The parcel adjoins the Bryant Building Inc
Ieavitt estate the seller and Douglas hop-
fnson. Charles s. Brown & Co. the brokers'
Ex-Congressman Jefferson NJ. Levy bought
tract of sixty acres bounded by Schlehehhs
Lane, NelSOn-aVe- $4,000
the EdenwaId Land Company. The parcel was
formerly a part of the famous Seton homestead
nronerty It adjoins the Scheffelln tract re-
Gently reported sold at 5000 an acre Extend
ing through the property is 233d-st
W. W. Cole bought the sixteen story
building Of the Bank of the Metropolis at the
northwest corner of 16th-st. and Union Square.
He has leased the ground floor and basement 10
the bank for fifty years.
at the northeast corner of 1S5th-st and Anster-
dam-ave. It occupies plot, 45x12I feet. Alfred
Beadleston was the seller
Shaw &, Co leased for A E. Thompson Nos.
G. and 60 West 125th-st. two three story and
basement dwelling houses with stores. 2oxlO0
feet. for term of twenty-one years. This prop
erty will probably be altered for business pur-
poses,
Samuel GoldstIcker sold triangular plot,
bounded by Convent and st. Nicholas ayes. and
i51st-st. for Towns & Wandell. executors
for the estate of NJ w Hooker. The plot has
frontage Of 1863 feet in Convent-ave., 1864
feet in St Nicholas-ave and 81 feet in 151st-st-
Renwick c. Hurry & Co. sold four story
business building at the southeast corner of
45th-st. and Lexington ave. plot fronting
1879 feet in the street by 20 feet in the avenue.
The building has six ground floor stores fronting
the avenue.
Willard F. Kuh leased for Alexander Hess TO
Frank Brothers for term of twenty-one years
Nos S, 10 Il and "A West 125th-st.. four story
buildings. which will be altered into depart
ment store
o. D. Dixie & Bro and Lincoln Price sold for
Irving / Kempner a four story dwelling house,
20xS5 feet at the northwest corner of 126th-st.
and Madison-ave.
Slawson & Hobbs sold for Right & Dongan to
an investor the six story elevator triple apart
ment house. with stores, at the northwest corner
of Broadway and 142d-st, 50x1O0 feet, now in
the course of construction, and to be completed
about June l.
Mandelbaum & Levine sold the block front
on the east side OF Amsterdam-ave., between
121st and 122d SITS. I92x100 feet to Levine &
Davis. The buyers will erect five six story fiat
houses the premises.
s B. Goodale & Son sold for A. NJ Lanke-
nau a parcel 4O3x75 feet. at the northeast cor
Der OF 25th-st and 7th-ave. Three brick build
faSs occupy the plot. This is the first sale of
sne property since 1864.
week from the Wall Street Exchange Building
Association and the Trust Company of America
to Nos. Il and 43 Wall-st; 3o.!x irregular and
Nos. 81 and 80 Wall-st, 30.6X irregular.
The William Rosenweig Realty Operating
Company resold to Kurzrok Brothers No. 15
East 16th-st:, Ave story building on lot
buyers will erect a business building on the
site.
northwest corner Of West Broadway and Hous-
ton-st, with a frontage Of 50 feet in West
Broadway. 1t comprises three five story tene-
ment houses. with stores This property has
been owned by family for about forty years.
II is thought that the New-York and New-Jer-
sey tunnel. which will extend through West
Broadway. will have a station on the property.
Albert B. Ashforth sold to the Plaza Operat-
ing Company for Estelle Scholle No 10 West
5Sth-st., a four story dwelling house on a lot
2ox9S.9 feet. The parcel is Just west of the site
which the Plaza Hotel will be built by
the Plaza Operating Company.
VI. Edgar FHtz-Gibbon sold for Pekelner
Bothers. builders to Ravitch Brothers, for S165,-