New-York tribune., 1908-07-06

Laue YVES the seller and George Backer the broker
In the deal
The purchase by Nathan Grabenhein.sr Of the
Riviera seven story apartment house, at the
southeast corner OF seth It is on a plot 65xi25
feet. Solomon Iinderborn was the seller
The sale Of about six plots surrounding the north
east corner Of 1o3d st. and Broadway by the City
Real Estate Company. The plot has a frontage
OF q feet on Broadway OF l142 feet on iasd st. a
northerly line Of 165 feet and easterly line OF
loo-u feet F. V. Calder & Co. were the brokers
The purchase by Ex-Governor Levi P Morton
through Frederick Zittel of the block front on the
westerly side OF Broadway, from 10th 10 1lst
St. which two six story elevator apart
ment houses The purchase price about s65o.o0a
The size Of the plot is eooxso feet
The sale by c. N. Slverman & Son Of the
Saquenay. new six story apartment house at
the southeast corner Of 143d ST for about $50
900 10 the Bookman estate. which also purchased
about the same time the Castleton apartment
house. adjoining. for about $4,000 The Saquenay
occupies PLOT 1co1l0o feet. John H. Berry
the broker IN both deals
The sale Of the Audubon apartment house, at
the southeast corner Of 15sth ST. plot esil
100 feet, for about ss2Soe to Frank Carlson. John
N. Thompson & CO. were the brokers.
The sale by the Ostend Realty Company Of the
block front on the easterly side Of Broadway from
1eoth to 1s1st st. to the Crystal Realty Company,
which VIII improve the premises with five 40-foot
six story apartment houses L. J. Phillips & Co.
were the brokers IN that deal. The purchase by
the Brode Realty Company Of the block front on
the westerly side of Broadway. between Nth and
17Sth SITS. Arnold Byrne & Baumann the
brokers and the Fort Washington Syndicate was
the seller. The size Of the plot is 255x110 feet
Plans for many large buildings to be erected on
Manhattan Island in the near future have been
flied are being drawn OF course the most I'M
portant project is the proposed sixty-two story
home for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, for
which plans fled last week. and which will
represent expenditure of at least Slo.eoo,0oo 1t
Will tower 9oe feet above the curb From the curb
to the top of the flag staff viii be 1O59 feet. Some
of the big projects under way which will soon
be carried out the proposed greater Grand
Central Station TO cost 100000; the proposed
Bellevue Hospital building, to cost sS,5o0,0o0 new
home for Henry c. Frick in Fifth avenue. between
10th and list sts-, the estimated cost of which Is
placed at 100000 81 100000 addition 10 the Hotel
Astor a $500 900 terminal station at 32d st and
Sixth ave for the Hudson Companies, s7,O0,-
900 Office building, which will occupy the site Of
the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, at I'D st. and Fifth
ave, and home for the Union Dime Savings
Institution. TO be built at the northwest corner
of zGth st. and Sixth ave, cost OF SS5G.eo0;
twenty-five story Office building at the northeast
corner of Exchange Place and Broadway at cost
of 81 100000; hotel for the Ritz-Carlton Company
at the northwest corner OF 18Th ST. and Madison
ave, which will cost s1,5oo,0oo. and new home
for the Second Avenue Bank, to be erected at
2Sth ST. and Fifth ave. at cost OF acooc".