New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-27
REALTY'S HIGH MARK.
II. DOHERTY ESTATE SOLD.
Spirited Bidding Brought 81 1913 500
for City Property.

For the vast holdings of the estate Of Patrick
Doherty. which We're sold at auction yesterday
by Joseph p. Day, at the Vesey street real
estate salesrooms. sl.9f3.GOO was paid The
Manhattan parcels brought $l,SO6,4OO and the
Bronx property SlO7. 200. Not only was the bid
ding spirited. but most of the sales Of Eighth
avenue plots established new record prices for
property in that section. The number OF per-
sons present was much larger than at any one
Of the big auction sales held in the Vesey street
room since october %. 1905. when S49ll'SOO
was realized from the sale OF the holdings OF
the estate Of Elizabeth ". Aldrich.
About fifteen hundred persons were in the
rooms yesterday when Mr.. Day called for bld
on the first offering. No 463 Tenth avenue
which was quickly bought by John Rosenberg
fer S15 700. The buyers OF some Of the other
offerings were Peter White, Mandelbaum q
levine. Thomas F. Fox. Thomas J. and Micnaei
7 Stanley. Isaac Cohen, Stephen McFartlanu'
~ The arveoods house of MCFARLAND & oFlah-
erty; Magnus Weiman, Jackson d stern L
TBlvn & Son. Marie Roche, an heir OF the esIA'e'
,.eorae Nicholas. Samuel Matstak p Duffy
the Gem Realty Company, Benjamin D. 'OiiH-
sion and J. F. Kaiser
An idea Of the confidence shown IN the
-e,l estate market may be had from the
rr,ce Maid for the entire holdings A mum
her Of appraisers estimated that the value OF
she total Offering was S1575,OoO. Just $685.
500 more than that sum was paid for the proI-
artz, For the small triangular parcel Nos 1903
and 1863 broadway. which has a frontage OF ZS.2
feet in Broadway and a north line of 1l.11s leet'
comprising about $50 square feet. Thomas d
and Michael J. Stanley paid Ss6'2oV' or "Oou'
e777 . souare foot. In 1910 Patrick Doherty
bought 30. 1863 Broadway, which was 'hen
plot fronting about So feet in Broadway with
po-
later he sold 40 feet frontage of this parcel for
ss.5oO the amount he had paid for the, whole
Mot. Few persons in the auction rooms thought
that the little lot would bring over $45'OOO' the
Kidding for which was started at $4,000. Rod
CRIT E. bowling and Justice P. Henry Dusro
were among the bidders for the property JUS
lice Dugros highest bid was $4,000
The prices paid for the other Manhattan Of
ferings and the names of the buyers follow:
Kos COZ and 900 Ninth avenue and No 4Ol
West 43d street, five story brick hathouses' 10
Nandelbaum & Levine, for SlOOOO0; No. Ola
West 37th street a one story structure, 10 refer
White. for $4,000: No. 34l West both street.
eve story aathouse TO Thomas F. F. Fox, for
$50 100: Nos. $50 and 6SS Third avenue a one
story structure. with four stores 10 isaac
Cohen. for S55600: Nos. 611. 6I3. go and O4t
Eighth avenue and No 300 West 43d street.
four story brick tenement houses, with
stores TO Stephen Mcfarland, for S3s2,odo;
No IA Ninth avenue, I'VE story brlck tele-
snent house with one double store, TO Magnus
a Weiman. for S47. 30O Nos. 613. 615 and Ga
Eighth avenue. four story brick tenement
houses. with stores, TO Jackson Stern, for
S1s4.2OO; Nos. 600 and Gil Eighth avenue, four
story brick tenement houses, with stores, to I.
Blyn e. Son. for S1OI 800: No. 40 West 42d
street. five story brick tenement house, with
two stores TO Marie Roche. for S45.GlO; Nos.
6l9 and 621 Eighth avenue and No. S0l West
4Oth street. four story brick tenement houses
with stores. to Samuel Matstak. for Sl11,dOO:
Nos. 623. GO and 627 Eighth avenue and Nos.
300 and 800 West 10th street, three story brick
tenement houses, the avenue parcel and one
story frame structure on the street plot. to
George Nicholas. for $4,000: No. 40 West
50th street, a i've story brick tenement house,
TO p Duffy for $50. 600: Nos. 694 and 596 Eighth
avenue and No 25S West 44th street, five story
apartment houses, 10 Marie Roche. for S110.-
500. Nos. 6i2. Ga and 616 Eighth avenue, three
story brick buildings with stores, TO the Gem
Realty Company for S75,500; No. 40 Eighth
avenue, five story brick tenement house with
store. to Benjamin b. Johnston. for S64. 800.
George Nicholas, who bought an Eighth avenue
parcel. has been for some years active in the
central Fifth avenue section and in the Penn.
sylVania tunnel terminal district.
Charles ". Doherty, James j. Doherty, Mrs.
Walter Roche and Mrs Ellen 7. Gavin, children
OF Patrick Doherty, who a well known con-
tractor, were his heirs and beneficiaries under
his Will Mrs Gavin. who lives i'm Boston, IL
the only survivor, Charles ". Doherty having
died last fall There are, however, six grand
children who will receive their share OF the sale
of their parents property.