New-York tribune., 1910-10-23
INCREASE IN REAL ESTATE TRADING ;
Sers Active Districts in Which Large Numbers of Hiuh
Class Buildings Have Been Erected in Recent Years.
GOOD VOLUME OF BUSINESS IN THE MIDTOWN SECTIONS

teen story store. loft and Office building is
being built.
As regards new buildings this is one of
the most active parts of this great thor
oughfare There is hardly a landmark
which has withstood this march of bust
ness northward. A new home for the
wholesale house of Mills & Glib. at the
northwest corner OF I'd street and Fourth
avenue, is being erected. On the site of
the old Clarendon Hotel. at the southeast
corner Of 18th street and Fourth avenue q
twenty story store. loft and office building
is being put Up by Henry Corn On the
easterly side OF the avenue Just north of
18th street, an eleven story mercantile
structure is nearly ready for occupancy
Jrst southeast OF the central Fourth avenue
district the purchasing operations last week
resulted in a change OF ownership Of a
well known church landmark which for
some years has been used for business pur
poses. The Landmark is at the northwest
corner Of sd street and Lexington avenue.
II was sold by the American Ice Company
TO William II. Seaich. The ice company
took the property as a plaintiff at a fore
closure sale. The auction price was $4,000
and the present sale wes reported at about
S25. 600 The premises front e7.6 feet on the
avenue and 30 feet in the street.
The Brady estate, Edward w. Browning.
the FisheI Realty Company, the syndicate
represented by Michael Coleman. the Hol-
land Holding Company. OF which Judson 5
Todd is president, and Paul Starrett, presis
dent OF the George A. Fuller Company, f1g-
ured prominently last week in the midtown
trading The Michael Coleman syndicate,
which some months ago bought the Eden
Musee property, extending from so TO 18th
streets, between Fifth and Sixth avenues,
purchased from the estate of William G.
Schermerhorn, through the firm Of Leon
ard J. Carpenter. the i've story dwelling
house and stable No. "a West z4th street
That site has q frontage OF Is feet, and.
with the Eden Musee site. forms a plot
with a frontage OF rs feet both on sd and
24th streets. The Holland Holding Com
pany purchased from the Lucy Denny and
the Gale estate the two four story and
basement dwellings. Nos. Is and p West
18th street The Fishel Realty Company
increased its holdings by buying from the
Brady estate the entire block front on the
easterIy side OF Seventh avenue, between
12lst and IS2d streets. gfSing in exchange
for the property the twelve story lort
building No. 20 to 50 West 21st street.
Paul starrett bought from the Herald
Square Holding Company the old buildings
No. 90 TO IS West 45th street, adjoining the
Harvard Club.
Edward w Browning bought. through
Frederick Fox & Co, the premises No. IA
10 145 West S6th street, 60x9s-e feet
In Uptown Districts.
Among the large uptown transactions last
week was the purchase by the Comfort
Realty Company, Of which Barnet House
is president Of a plot al the northwest
corner OF Broadway and 1s2d street. The
site has a frontage Of 42.5 feet in Broadway
and rs feet in 162d street On that site is
to be erected a high class six story elevator
apartment house.
Another large uptown transaction was
the sale by the Charles F. Noyes Company
for client TO Ennis & Sinnott Of the two
five story triple apartment houses Nos. 565
and 567 West lid street. The houses are
about I25 feet east of st. Nicholas avenue.
Klein & Jackson bought from the Clark
estate the block front comprising eight lots
on the west side of Broadway between Hath
and u5th streets. The property was held
al s520eo0 Earl & Calhoun were the brokers
in the transaction. This is the first sale OF
any OF the Clark properties since the death
OF Mrs. Il. c. Potter last year.
Horace S. Ely & Co. sold for Jane Sand
ers and Katharine S. Rose the southeast
corner OF Third avenue and 64th street, one
story buildings on a plot fronting 1co.5 feet
on the avenue and 80 feet in the street, 10
Lowenfeld & Prayer.
Adjoining this plot on the east and run
ming from SD TO 64th street is the Man
haitian Eye and Ear Hospital and Just east
% 30 hv-s1l o~T do
Hirsch Trade School
The principal deal in the Dyckman sec
ton was the sale by Henry Corn Of twenty
lots IN the block bounded by Sherman and
Post avenue and Academy and Dyckraan
streets TO the Zipkes Construction Com
pany. The purchasing concern will erect
four six story elevator apartment houses
on the site.