New-York tribune., 1909-09-16
TO BUILD In STH AVE.
cUSHMAN ESTATE Plans.
Paine Whitney Adds to His Fifth
AUenue Home Site.

There little trading in the real Estate market
.sterday. plans for improving well located sites
!, Manhattan Island being among the nrincipsl
s,suos of news. Buyers were found for a marcel IN
ne Lincoln Square section. for a Manhattan ave
1ue house for two apartment houses in West 10Th
srreet and for a number of other properties
II was learned yesterday that the d. A. Cushmap
pealty Corporation. representing the estates Of
Tz-iuiam F. Cushman. Emily A. NfIlcoxson and An
selca B. Faber, is going 10 erect eight story
elevator apartment house. with store, on a plot at
,be southwest corner Of ssth street and Eighth
avenue II Will be built from plans by Schwartz
Gross.
.etal drygoods firm
psvne Whitney took title yesterday TO n lot
,rrlOo feet, on the easterly side Of Fifth avenue
. 2 feet north of 18th street, from James B. Duke
The expressed consideration was nominal The lot
is q part of the plot, l02xlo9 feet. at the north
corner Of 18th street and Fifth avenue. recently
bousht by James B. Duke from the II. H Cook
estate. The Cook house is being replaced by
u,dern dwelling house for Mr.. Duke.
The home Of Nh. Whitney adjoins the Duke
property.
southeast corner Of 5Sd street and Fifth avenue for
ssOe0 at 81 per cent the Metropolitan Life In
suranoe Company.
The Fourth National Bank took title 10 a plot.
7alx7l 7x65 7N7SS feet at the southeast corner Of
cedar and Nassau streets
Pavson Mel. Merrill and J. Roberts Walton sold
for Alexander Smith Cochran No. IS West 65th
street q three story stable lot - 7Nl005 feet.
william A. White & Sons leased for Mrs. g S
Harper No. West 46th street. adjoining The north
xest corner Of Fifth avenue. Charles Thorley for
8 term Of years. The same brokers leased 10 Mr
TborleY few months ago. the corner building
which is now being altered for his business
Postoflce Station ], which present occupies the
ground floor Of the apartment house at the south
west corner Of COLUMBUS and lO5th street is
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months.
The plot. lelxlc0u feet. al No. Us to ls4 West
losd street adjoining Public School l7s. near Am
sIsrdam avenue, has been leased by Horace 5. Ely
A Co for Eugene Higgins TO the Branch Realty
company for a term Of years al an aggregate rem
tsl Of about Sl09.el0 The coTppan purposes erect
ing on the site two story building the easterly
sixty feet Of which is TO be occupied by the post
Office The remaining forty feet viii be given over
70 stores and lofts. Plans for the new building
being drawn by Macmillan Zipkes. and it is
pected that the structure VIII be finished by next
December.
Plans have been filed for a five story dwelling
house 70 be built for John 3. Trevor. owner.
rrom designs by Trowbridse & Livingston. archi-
iscts II will be Of brick and limestone II is 70 he
Of the chaste Colonial type finished with maasard
roof ard large easement windows, with ornamental
rangs al the second story It is be 25 feet front
and 50 feet deep. with extension and IS 10 cost
g58a
Plans have been filed for four story loft ana
store building 70 be erected on land owned by Rob
srt Smith. at No. 81 West 14th street, for James
Dsyanney II is TO be OF Flemish bond faced brick.
s feet front and lo5 feet deep The architect is
James " Cole.
Plans have also been filed for two six story fat
houses with stores, 10 be built from designs BY
Toung & Gronenberg IN l23d street east Of Lenox
zTenue for the Newport Realty Company. Of which
YAK J. Klein is president They 10 cost $4,000.
Pins have been fled for adding an extension 10
re roof Of the substation OF the Interborough Rap
Transit Company in S6th street, west OF Broad
say 70 AFFORD additional ofhce space. the improve
nents being made from designs By George II
Pegram.
A twelve story business building viii be built b.
James CaTlew on the premises 30. 10 West 9Th
street 75xl9o feet, which ne recently bought from
Samuel K Jacobs II viii be the first project Of its
kind undertaken by him. For years he has been
Identified with the West Side, having erected many
fne dwelling houses there.