New-York tribune., 1909-07-25
RTIIIDERS ACTIVE ON WEST SIDE
NANT APARTMENT HOUSE PLANS-COSTLY BUILD
JNcs FOR RTTERSIDE DRIVE And WEST END AVE
Harmonious improvement Assured for Nghborhood of Grand Cen@
Standardization Bankers Bug Large Brooklyn Tract

MED for similar purposes by dealers all SEQ
tons
The New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company leased TO Koenig & Co No. 523 70 6Zs wa
ter for twenty-nine years The plot is 121Sxa
feet The lessees will al once put up loft oullo-
ing. Koenig CO own the block front IN hut
gers Slip from Water street to South street. ad-
Joining the property Just leased The Charles F.
Noyes Company were the brokers who put through
the deal for the leased ground.
This deal calls TO mind the fact that plans were
fled last week for the tallest loft building yet put
up on Manhattan Island The building will be In
the residence district, ar the northwest corner OF
Madison avenue and 3Sth street It will be twenty
stories high will $780, 900 The $50 Madison
Company. Of which Frederick Johnson is president
will the building.
Other loft buldiT gs planned teT-story build
ing at Nos 161 and 165 Franklin street and No.
10 Leonard street. This building will be owned
by = c. Bechstein and will cost $4,000. A seven
story brick loft building will be put up at No.
to 43d street, for the Pittsburg Construction
Company. 4 sx-story brick lofts building will be
put up AZ No 50 Ridge street for L Levy, and an
other six story brick lofts building will be built at
No. 452 Pearl street Tor E N and NJ I, Woodruff
An important sale which calls attention to the
increased convenience in reaching the outlying sec
tons OF Brooklyn vas involving eighty-two
acres in the Flatands district. Edward H. Nc
Ccrnack, representing q syndicate OF Western
and Oakleigh Thorne the tract thar was originally
the Campbell and Van vyck farms There are in
the tract about twelve hundred lots fronting
Kings Highway. between Nostrand and Flatbush
avenues, and in FIatlands avenue and Avenues NJ
N and and in East SD TO 3sth street and in
Lots Lane, which is the old highvav TO KimbalI
Landing. The asking price for the land vas $780,
ooo It wss bought By the sellers about three
ago
OTHER SALES REPORTED
This is the dull season in the realty market and
as rule business moved with tagging steps. With
the exception Of the deals already told Of. there
was little business Of considerable Importance
Among the sales reported was that Of the eleven
story business building at the northwest corner Of
Broadway and 11th street This building stands
on leasehold plot "a 2xs7 feet, and was begun
in 1905 from plans by S. Sass The estimated cost
was 100000. The new owners are Bernard Rat
kowsky and Kasssl Simon. who in the fur
business in East Broadway The brokers we're
Strunsky & Refs. VI. Feldmsn and : Jaffe.
Pease & Gilman sold for Marcus Marks 70
lo11 10 1o17 Lexington avenue. four three story
brownstone dwelling houses at the southeast cor
ner Of 73d street and Lexington avenue The
property was bought for investment
Arnold, Byrne Ss Baumsnn sold for Sarah Usland
No. 10 116 West 115th street The property
comprises four fve story apartment buildings on
plot 10oxlo0 feet. Millard veit was the associate
broker.
D n Gallo sold for Lowenfeld 6 Prayer. 10 an
investor. the six story loft building at the south
west corner Of West Houston and Sullivan streets.
George Schwegler sold two properties which have
been in the hands OF the sellers for thirty years
They were Nos. 451 and 453 West 4+th street The
present buildings viii be replaced by six story
apartment house.
George Alexander Macdonald sold 70 an in
vestor the four old buildings at Washington and
Horatio streets. plot 42x92 feet
J. A Stein has sold the four story dwelling
house at No. SO East 18th street, adjoining the
corner Of Madison avenue.
The Melster & Bache Realty Company and Levy
& Starr have bought the five story apartment
house No 81 West Hath street.
The Frank Z Fisher Company sold a client,
for Hart E. Berg. the four story and basement
dwelling house at No. 3l3 West sd street.
slawson & Hobbs and F R Wood & Co sold
10 a client who will occupy the house. No. 1O7
West S5th street three story high stoop dwelling
house, on plot 19x55x97-s feet
E Singermann & Co. and H NJ Well sold for
Charles E Osgood, 10 Mrs. Mary E O'NeiIl two
five story double apartment houses, on plot TAX
100 feet. at the southeast corner OF 115th street
and Morningside avenue. The property has been
held a $4,000