New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-11-25
PARK AVENUE SALE
DEAL AFFECTS FIVE FOUR STORY BUILD
INGS NE4R esd STREET.
Pine Street Building Changes Hands-Syndicate Buys
Large Plot IN Fifteenth 4fuenue Brooklyn.

Investors and speculative builders were
consiacuous as buyers In the real estate
market yesterday. The downtown, the
Fourth avenue the Park avenue the upper
Lexington avenue and the upper West
side districts furnished the most important
Transactions.
The trading resulted A. a change OF own
eEshp 10 the premises No. - 10 5aS Park
avenue, Ave four story buildings, on plot
lglNs5 feet The property IL between Esd
aud S3th streets. Apartment houses N this
section are a most profitable investment
owing 20 that fact a Was thought IN Ger
tain realty circles that an apartment
stracure would probably be put Up on the
site. Huston & Asinsif and the firm 81
Leonard j Carpenter sold the parcel for
james &. Mcclure 20 clients o. the Car
renter firm.
A. the northeast corner OF 6lst street
snd Park avenue a fifteen story apartment
house IS being erected by the Thompson
Storrett Company from plans by Herbert
Lucas. Pease & Gilman have been sp-
pointed managing agents % the property.
That house will be known a. No. as
Park avenue. II Is owned comparatively
by a number OF wei know men and
women. who viii occupy large part ot
the building.
OWNERS WELL KNOWN.
Among the owners Of the property are
Howard Mansfield. % lord. Day & LORD.
Henry r. Plat. 81 The Fidelity Trust and
DEPOSIT Conpsuv. 4. LorinE Brace. Of ihe
s-hndren's Aid Society. Raw Morris. James
~. Townsend. Dr. Rache Mel. Emmett. I'd
ward p Emmei. Miss LYDIA 4. Enmet.
AIRS. francis Hartman Markoe. Mrs. Bsche
Gcii. N-hrtlock. Or. George Montgomery
Tuttle. L Morgan Grinnell and Or. Pred
srick Peterson.
They we're attracted 10 this scheme be-
cause ~ seemed 10 solve for them the prob
lem Of 4 permanent and commodious hon.e
in this CITY, much better than the purchase
Of a large dwelling house. The building
III be managed as nearly like a club as
possible and directly under the super
vision Of the owners. through their agents.
Several exchanges OF properties were re-
ported he selding Brothers sold for f. NJ.
Fulton 10 Y. NJ. Turner the seven story
building Nos 81 Pine street and l2S Water
street. In part payment Mr.. Turner gave
she new four story double fisthouse No. COS
i2th street. between Fifth and Sixth ave
Eues. Brooklyn. The DuIOss Realty Com
pany sold for Theodore r. Brennan The FIVE
story apartment house Nos. 80 and pa
West 1888 street. the buyer giving IN PART
payment a house al Bloomfield. y J.
An investment deal in the central Fourth
avenue zone was the purchase by Mrs. Eliot
Dsnforth Of the TWO four story brick dwell
ling houses Nos. 40 and u East S3th street
She Gowns an adjoining site and now con-
frols plot. 74.sNss.S feet, al the northwest
corner OF Soth street and Fourth avenue.
The largest sale OF property in tn Fourth
avenue subway zone in Brooklyn since work
IN that project was begun made yes
terdav BY Horace :. Ely & co. u sold for
an estate 10 = syndicate headed by Harry
u. johnson = trace Of over four hundred
lots. including tho entire frontag" on the
est side OF Fifteenth avenue. from a point
between 7sth ana 18th streets 90 q point be
.oud SD street. and extending westward
ga 18th. 18th. 18th. s'th. slst. SD and $50
streets 20 within = few feet of Fourteenth
avenue. Tho tract Is adjacent 20 the Coney
Island extension of the Fourth avenue
route. which VIII run along New Utrecht
avenue.
MADISON AVENUE PROJECT
Plans have been filed for making over
fhs four story and basement private
dwelling az the northeast corner Of Madi-
son avenue and 6lst street into a TWO fam
i'v Aathoass. with stores on the lower
floors, tho building being enlarged for
fhe changed occupancy a. a cost Of s25,-
oO0 for George Shaffer from designs by
-. x. Benedict as architect.
Plans have also been fled for one
story garage 50 feet front and 100 feet
deep. with an extension. 10 DE built for
Dcrman l. Ormsby, as lessee. al a cost 81
81 coco. from designs by John r. KERRY.
ON land owned 10y the city. in l5lst street.
cast OF Amsterdam avenue.
Plans have also been filed Tor remodel
lirg. reftting and modernizing the i've
story tenement house. No. 20 Madison
street. owned Icy Samuel J.. and Louis ".
prayer, which Was cut down IN width 20
conform with the new grade OF tie Man
haitian Birds. approaches. the improve
Llents being made at cost ~ $4,000
from designs by John =. KERRY as archi-
Ecct
Plans have also been filed for remodel
Eng and partly refitting tie moving pict-
are han al NO. 2o35 Second avenue. a
tenement house % fec stories which was
abandoned fOr such occupancy 20 permit
fhe moving Dctgre exhibitions. The pro-
sectcd Improvements are Co be- made Tor
routi Brothers from designs by Mathew
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