New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-02
ESTATE PARCELS SOLD
INVESTORS PAY s4S9SOO FOR THE STEPHEN
WHITNEY PROPERTIES
Adolph Leohn Bugs Broadsoay Block FrOnt-Many Flat
houses Planned for Bronr Sites.

~. steDhen whitney estate properties
~~re sold yesterday at the Real Estate
exchange salesrOoms, Nos. Il and l6 Nesey
street. bv Joseph y. Day, for sass. SEQ. Most
of the buyers own parcels adjoining the
sites they purchased.
Excellent prices were obtained for the
offerings. the bidding for. several sites
being unusually spirited.
For the five story building No. &c White
hall street SC2.5oe was paid by the Saranae
Realty Company. 81 which George q. Ere
linghuysen is president. The purchasing
company Owns the abutting northwest cor
ner OF Pearl and Whitehall streets.
Ex-Alderman Andrew J. Doyle. who
owns several parcels on Washington and
West streets. secured No. IS Washington
street for $50 500 and Dr. John T. Maggie,
formerly head OF the Health Department,
purchased No. ] Water street for $4,000.
His brother Garret Magic. owns the ad-
joining property. No. 3.
The building at No. - South street was
secured for a bid OF $3.50 by Stevenson
Taylor. vice-president OF the Quintard Iron
Works Company. and No. IS Front street
was secured for s22.7O0 by Horace S. Ely
q Co. acting FOR Elizabeth ID. G. lane.
who owns No. &c, adjoining.
The Whitney estate parcels were sold
in the action being the Princess Rospig-
liosi OF Italy. members of the KernOchan.
whitney. Goelet. Phoenlx. Livingston. War
ren and Bergman families. Mayor Nc
Clellan and his wife. EdgertOn J.. Win
throp. president Of the Board OF Education.
and Mrs. kenochsn. mother OF Judge Ker-
nochan.
number OF large brokerage deals was
reported yesterday. The principal transac-
ton was the purchase by Adolph LeWisohn
through J.. J. Phillips 6, co. from the
Barney Estate Company Of the block front
on the west side Of Broadway. between
S6th and S7th streets IL consists OF two
story taxpayer" on plot OF about eight
lots. fronting about 2O2 feet on Broadway.
s. feet in s6th street and s5.5 feet in S7th
street.
The property was held at s70oo coo. II is
Directly opposite the new Belnord apart
nent house. covering ths block bounded by
Broadway and Amsterdam avenue. seth and
S7th streets. The buildings on the plot have
lost been completed.
Another big uptown transaction was the
sale by Max Marx through William A
Darling 20 Robertson & Gammie OF the
plot, slsKsSxSS9.5 feet. on the west side Of
Wadsworth avenue. 40 feet north OF Is0th
street. The buyers viii erect on the site
stories high, without elevators. The plot
Is near the Fort George subway station,
new building AT lsOth street
Robertson & Gammie gave in part pay
ment the four fve-story iathouses with
stores, at the southwest corner OF Inter
vale avenue and Jennings street, on a plot
ls5.sNll7xl4s. feet.
MANY BUILDING PROJECTS.
The Manhattan ana The Bronx building
projects for which plans We're fled yester-
day almost overshadowed the trading an
the brokerage market Two Manhattan
apartment house plans cali for an eNpendi-
ture OF soS0000 The Bronx building opera
tons provide for TIE erection OF many four
and hve story tenement houses al "A cost Of
s7tleoO.
Plans have been filed for twelve story
loft building TO be erected for Julius Stern
field a. no. 81 10 S28 Eas; saith street from
designs by George and Edward Blum. II
Is 10 be OF brick and granite. trimmed with
terra Gotta, and win have a frontage OF
So feet and a depth OF $50 feet. with an
extension. il viii cost $4,000.
Plans have also besn filed for an eight
story apartment house, with suites for
thirty-thnee families. 10 he erected in llSth
street. east OF Broadway. from designs by
the same architects for the Paterno Broth
ers Construction Company. al a cost Of
$1,000 ana for two slX-story apartment
houses. eaCn with thiriV-One suites, 10 be
built in 157th street. east OF Broadway,
from designs ny ". J.. Rouse ana Ia A
Goldstone, for the IIighwood Realty Com
pany. Of which julius Meinstein is presi-
dent, r. a cost Of $3.50 600.
Plans tFve been filed for remodelling the
Two old fur story tenement houses al Nos.
% and 4 James street in compliance with
TcSse neut Department requirements Tor
beitering the lignt and sanitation til i'm
provemeHts being made from designs by
Siucoft a Glucost FOR Frances McCary
as owner.
4 Francis II. KENDALL architect has filed
II pians :er ercct..ls a new portico entrance
- BENJAMIN Altman's house. al the north
west cognsr-os Fifth avenue and 10Th street
opposite s.. Patrick's Cathedral. II Is to
be adorned with Doric columns and
hstastrade around the second story win
Cow, which viii be made over with an
ornamental easement with a decorated
arch
The new uurtlco viii be on the 51th
street Front OF the building and ice built Of
Portland broUnstOne al a cost Of s. 5s0
The art gallery. adjoining The house on the
west is being enlarged with an addition
OF classic design. with which the portico