New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
MANY LOFT PROJECTS
Plans Filed Last North for
Thirty-seven Such Structures.

The April report OF Rudolph Miller nuild-
ings superintendent. as compiled oy Stats
ticisn Spencer. shows gains In s>verai
classihcations partly orsetting the decrease
In projected tenement house construction
The store and loft construction shows
marked increase over the preceding Aprfi-
The grand total for new work for the
month is given as S4.731. 400. represerttag
If3 new buildings. a decrease ot sss10 N
capital investment as compared with the
same month last year and an Increase %
fourteen IN the number OF buildings pro-
vided for.
Last month twenty-six tenement houses
were projected. TO cost B,35s00o. In fseo
ffty-three buildings. 20 cost sS14Son. were
planned. decrease IN this years showing
OF s7ssOo0 and twenty-seven in nuu1ber cf
buildings.
The increase IN store and Io~t constrro-
ton shows thirty-seven buildings. costing
g. .O51. 200. last month. "a against eighteen
buildings, costing 5000 900, for the cor-s-
spending month last year. an Increase Of
S.oe1 coo in capital investment and nfnsse-n
in number OF buildings and an increase Of
s3.T7O.Oo0 over last months investment In
this classification and six IN number of
buildings
An increase OF s2122.0oo Is shown IN o1,os
building construction. but decrease IN tho
number OF buildings, there being plans tisd
for three buildings last month. az against
five IN March, the investment last month
being $4,000 and 81 .Oss OOo FOR March
The statistics show an investment IN new
buildings OF 13324 20 for the month OF
March and Sab. 400 for April. an Increase
OF 81. .4OG, ,150.
Plans FOR notable new construction work
filed IN April included those for a twelve
story apartment house at the nOrtheas.
corner Of Broadway and SSth street. for
T. J. McLaUghlin's Sors TO be erected az
a cost Of 81 100000. and for the thir1y-nins
story Office building OF the Bankers Trusc
Company. TO be built at the northwest cor
ner Of Wall and Nassau streets. where an
unusual building operation will take plaza.
in demolishing the GiIIender Building, a
modern skyscra2er. 10 make way for tia
newest skyscraper in the city, which Is to
cost 100000
A $500. .ooo Apartment House
Moreover plans were fled for a twelve
story apartment house AZ No se3 Fifth
avenue for the Century Holding Com
pany. 20 cost 800 900: a sixteen story
store and loft building. for the Regent
18th street. 10 cost 10000: two dwellings.
one for Samuel P Bertron on Fifth ave-
nue.. south OF 10Th street, 20 cost 500 .0oo; ths
other. at the northeast corner OF Park ave-
nue. and I'D street. for OakIeigh ThOrne, To
cost $4,000.
The alteration work N April included sew
eraI improvements OF interest among them
the enIarging OF the four story home OF the
Century Association. at No. Z West 45d
street: for remodeIIing the house OF ". I.
Watts Sherman, at the northeast corner OF
Fifth avenue and 18th street, which con-
sists in remOdelling the ballroom and ths
driveway and partly remodelling the in
terror; for making over the two four story
tenement houses at Nos. 13s and 10 West
61st street, into a convent for the Dorain-
lean Sisters OF the Sick Poor. and for con-
vertfng the two story stable on the south
side OF 44th street. west of Fifth avenus,
into an sst gallery.