New-York tribune., 1909-12-14
GREENWICH ST. SALE
PARCEL H LOFT STRUCTURE BEING BUILT
BY J. III. CRUIKSHANK.
W. Clarence Martin Buys est s7 Street Bnldng-Nesr
O1cner for 18th Street Leasehold.

IN, sntirfty % investors. spectators and
sperstors resulted yesterday IN n change
~ ownership IN a number % large i'm
proved and unimproved properties
Buyers were found for q plot IN the
operative house district Of Park avenue.
for q plot in Riverside Drive near nth
street. for Van Buren leasehold in 14th
street. for a Eve story building IN West
18th street. for several West Side dwelling
houses and for . number 81 well located
parcels I'm The Bronx
Moreover. the new six story hreproof
mercantile building Nos. SIS and As Green
N1ch street. on q plot sS.6xso feet. was
rOld by Joshua J.. Evans ana H z
Connolly for James II. Cruikshsnk- ".
Clarence Martin added 20 ms realty hold
inEs by the purchase of the five story
building No IS West s7th street. on lot
2ox70 feet IN is just east OF Sixth avenue.
An important midtown transaction Was
the sale by BEumann & Osorio for the
Meteor Realty ana Construction Com
rany % the twelve story building being
erected al Nos 20 and e West Eth street,
on q plot 50xle0 fee.
Al unusual feature OF the transaction
is that the new owner. now a resident of
THIS ciry. intends 70 take up permanent
residence IN France and viii do SO irnme-
distely upon taking title TO this property
TIE buIding Is in q block that has Wit
messed considerable recent buying Just
20 the west the Astor estate sold last week
20 Charles Haas the three old buildings
81 No. 50 70 s West 18th street. together
with an abutrng parcel on 10th street, as
ere site for twelve story loft building
Al No. - West 18th street a frontage of
SSs feet also changed hands few days
arc.
The Meteor Realty ana Construction
Company bought the site Tor the new
structure al Nos ~ and q West 18th street
last March-
Ths zeal IN the new cooperative apart
ulsnr house zone was the sale by Pavson
ldcL. Merrill and Douglas Robinson. Charles
r Brown & Co. for the City Real rs
fate Company TO the Cooperative Building
Construction Company. Of No. 555 10 $50
PARK avenue two ive story apartment
houses known as the Lonsdsle. on plot
65.5z.z irregular.
The property is on the east side of Park
Evenue. between cd and $50 streets. II ad-
-oins the twelve story apartment building
row being erected by tie Cooperative
Building Construction Company st the
0ortheasr corner OF 62d street
The same company viii erect on this site
smother comparative apartment building
from fhe plans of Walter b. Chambers.
The fscsde and interior arrangement ~ the
building viii he % the same general char-
s-ter as the adjoining building, which was
also designed BY A1r. Chambers. The com
bined plot has a frontage OF 1858 feet on
park, avenue. with depth ~ 20 feet on
SD street.
TIE new building viii contain eighteen
duplex apartments. varying Ia size from
apartments of six rooms and one hath 20
Euartr1euts % ren rooms and three baths
This Is the fourth cooperative apart
rierr house 10 he erected on Park avenue
by the Cooperative Building CONSTRUCTION
Company in the las; eighteen months.
william Sittsnhzm. o. No. - West 9Th
street. who recently increased his holdings
IN that street by taking a iease of No -
West S7th street for long term % years,
- the owner of several parcels II this
block. besides controlling various leasenolds
fbene
NJ sittsnhsm IS one ~ me leading realty
experts. Tie vas one OF the hrsr persons n
can attention 10 the worthlessness Of re-
Ftrctions on property IN S7th street. and
also one of the hrst 10 predict that the
sixth avenue route OF the McAdoo tunnel
would be extended 70 s2d street
Plans have been fled for an eight story
ioft snd store building, 10 be built from
designs by Howells & Stokes II the south
west corner Of Lafayette and Walker sUreeSs
Tor Helen r. jenkins. IN viii have front
aEe OF s. feet in Lafayette street and 24.S
1eer IN u alker street II rs 10 cost $4,000.
Plans have also been fled FOR a SIX story
warehouse 70 be erected al Nos SIS and -
Greenwich street. from designs by John
Wooley, for the Neper Construction Com
psny-. OF which Harry n. Perclman is pres
ideut- IL rs 70 cost S5o.es
Plans have also been Gled for making
over TIE four story and basement dwelling
house No. Il East SIN street owned by tho
trustees Of the sailors Snug Harbor, into
an ofioe building, with = store on tho
ground fioor- The improvements are 10 Poe
made from designs by John p. Noelksr
The remodelled building is 70 be leased for
term Of wears 10 Thomas Hanley.