New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-03
DOWNTOWN DEALS A FEATURE.
SPECULATORS md INVESTORS PROMINENTLY AC-
TIVE IN BUSINESS ZONES.
nly One Sale in Fifth AUenue District Reported Last ek
Good Market for Vest Side Parcels

Realty trading last week in the downtown ousi-
ness section attracted considerable attention. Inc
1rol,,,,A f business transacted in the section was
not large but most of the parcels which chahseo
hands are parts of blocks which continue 10 NC
sllur.ng 10 spectators and investors inc pm
c;pal transaction in the district in the week was
The sale OF The Watson estate property, comprising
i've story buildings on a plot 77xS0 feet at the
northwest corner Of Park Place and Church St, 10
Seth Sprague Terry and Charles c. NadaL 4hls
was the first sale Of the property in n1ly yeAis'
William A White 6, Sons and Warren q sklIllh
were the brokers 81 the deal The Watson estate
bought the parcel from Columbia CoAege'
formed a part Of the first site Of the college, Two
interesting sales in the downtown district We
made in the week by the rutland "hlhhg So4it
pany The company sold for Wilson barker q
WAGER TO Edward Greenbaum No. 56 Beeknlah ST.
n 1--WE story and basement and sub-basement oulIo-
ing on a lot 25xS7 feet, and for the trustees u t
estate Of John A McGaw 10 Thomas . eIldoulle
No lS Front St, a five story and basement oulIo-
ing on q plot 3sx75 feet. an
voorhees, &. Floyd sold for Gertrude D. 5. Slils
No. 291 Pearl St. four story building on LOT
25x1OO feet
Only one parcel in the central 9Th ave. sec
ton was reported sold last week II was Tue
Hinton estate property Nos. ~ and Al west 0-u
st two buildings on a plot 43X9S9 feet II
,6sotns .17e Pterrepont a.artment house. 1t was
sold for little more than 100000 through Doug
las Robinson. Charles S Brown q Co TO lLe
Century Realty Company. Horace ; Ely * 20.
sold for the Robert B. Roosevelt estate NO %
9Th ave- a three story dwelling house, 29Xlo feet'
near 18th St 10 William Mas and Edward Blum.
Thomas T. Ryan owns the old Presbyterian Build
tng. No 81 TO 50 9TH ave, adjoining the Roosevelt
property. ~
Klein & Jackson and Lee shubert sold to Will
saru H FIllrf No 46 eth ave. four story building
on lot l8x75 feet The parcel is 50 feet south OF
S5th
In the West Side section, north Of 18th st,
larger number Of big sales was reported last week
than fl a long time. The leading transaction In
tbs+ section in the week the sale by f-hhey
g. Mathews for the Houpt & Finney COMPANY %
cha two new six story elevator apartment houses
occupying the block front on the east sac u
Columbus ave. from S5th to Seth SITS 10 MIS-. DOT
othy NJ Mccartney, for about S'0OVyo' me Pot ol
which the house stands has frontage OF -o44 iee'
and a dan+b of 100 feet It was for some years
owned by the Clark estate.
Albert B. Ashforth sold for !. S. BeTnheimer
Nos so and So West S5th St, two vacant lots 100
feet west Of West End ave. The lots were held
l. j. Phillips Co. sold for Maurice A Herts 30 no
1927 feet a client, for occupancy, - -, ,,-,..
nenf dwelling house, lot 25xlO05 feet. John
Lo% Sca 8 Prayer resod to the Crystal Realty
and Construction Company the block II9n 1o On me
2O0xlOO feet recently bought from the Watt estate
Schneider & Rachrach bought St Charlss
Court six story elevator apartment mousse NO
n 70 ~ West 18th St., 75xlOOI1 feet
lanes /. Libby sold through =. H. Weisker' Jr-,
for p J yelling the Venice, six story aIaL tIreh
house on a plot 45S10O feet, Nos. Zo9 and Z62 West
197th 81 Also sold through Mr.. Weisker Tor FRANK
lin L. Sheppard 10 Bernard Lynch No Is West lS4th
c s Potter seven three story brick buildings,
with stores No. 2S45 10 1851 Jerome ave. northwest
corner OF North St ,,
Berry sold for Arthur n. Silver the plct, IoXlo0
feet on the east side Of UndeTcllT ave, ~ ieeI
south of Nth st. The parcel is just north OF
Washington Bridge >,
William Cruikshanks Sons sold for Sampson r.
schwarz Nos. % and a HoratiO St, two old build
ings. plot 50xS7.5 feet The plot WILL Do I'M
Frederick T. Barry sold for Emma C. Hamilton
10. 1l9 East SD st. four story front ana rear
tenement house on a lot 25xlO0 feet.
Pease & Gilman sold for Joseph z: brennan NO.
JOS East SD st. q four story nathouse, on q 10Y
IL. 2xl005 feet. TO a client large number OF
houses in this section have been sold recently. 80
Sol Freidus sold for Jacob Klein Nos 224I, Z"o5
and 2555 sth ave- three five story double hathouSes,
Julius Weinstein Nos. a15 and 207 East 103d St,
six story law house. plot g. SKULL ieel-
Folsom Brothers sold No 90 East Ith ST. a -FOUR
story English basement private house, on lo lsHso
feet for Harold Stuart Acheson to Mrs. Louise r.
Kautz Of Washington. This property had been IN
the Acheson family for the last twenty-five years
For the Townsend Underhin estate plot at the
northeast corner Of 9th and 9Th ave, 4S1cXl0x
e 5x1Go1 feet. Bryan l. Kennedy obtained at auc-
don last week the Real Estate Exchange Sales
rooms. Nos Il and l6 Nesey St. $4,000. The Cor
lears Realty Company was the buyer EfIaIluel u
Bach is the president OF that company. Inc nrst
BID for the property was $4,000.