New-York tribune., 1910-03-11

HANDS yesterday 1t was one OF the liveIiest
realty days Of the present season.
4 market was found for plot at River
side Drive and l6eth street: for fathouse
with stores. in upper Sixth avenue for a
Mercer street building. for a row of houses
ia West 18th street. for flaJhouse in West
;Sth street. for West 4sth street house, for
= number Of houses in West 50tE street for
. seven story tenement house in East i09th
street ana many other Manhattan parcels.
and in The Bronx for tract OF ten acres
fronting on Fordham Road and valued at
sSoa.aG. and for an entire block worth about
t.75.oo
\ transaction representing an invest
Tent Of about 100000 was the sale by Ed
ward J. Hogan. OF the firm OF John y.
Colding, 10 =. ". WooIworth & Co, of this
city and Liverpool, OF three FIVE story and
two seven story old fashioned office build
ings at the southwest corner of Park Place
and Broadway, covering a plot fronting
50 feet on Broadway and 1923 feet on Park
Place The premises are No. 23S TO go
Broadway and Nos. 6 and Park place
The corner property was sold by the Mer-
camille National Bank, the adjoin-
ing seven story building on the
Broadway side by the Trenor L. Park es-
tate. represented by T. B. jennings, of
stetson, Jennings & Russell, and The next
building to the south by George Ncakes.
who in order 10 be in position to deliver
that parcel paid one Of his tenants $500
for the uneNpired term OF his lease.
Park Place buildings No and S We're
acquired from John J. Mccullough.
= twenty story Office building Will be
erected on the site in the near future. II
that structure viii be the executive Offices
O" the purchasing company. now in the
Stewart Building. The irving National
Bank, at West Broadway and Cham
hers street, has arranged 10 rent large
space there.
Directly opposite the proposed improve
r1ert is the General Postoffice building and
City Hall Park.
The proposed building and the cost Of the
land viii Involve an oltlay Of about
100000.
". Knoedler Co. art dealers now at
the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and
s4th street. bought from syndicate com
posed Of the Alliance Realty Company.
Heilner & Wolf and Daniel &. Freedman
the old Lotos Club property. at Nos. 556
and SIS Fifth avenue. adjoining the south
s-est corner of 47th street. The broker was
NewboId 7. Lawrence.
The property was held al about $4,000
At the previous sale. in November, 1853
by the Lotos Club 10 the syndicate The
Price T1s reported as $4,000.
knoedler * Co. viii either alter the prop
ert| for their own use or erect a new
building. Their lease on the Altman block
expires soon. The Windsor Arcade on the
block north of the Knoedler purchase. is
Foon TO be demolished 70 make way FOR TWO
modern structures, the northerIy one OF
which IS 70 be leased by tie Gerry estate
70 ". & J. Sloane
Another important deal yesterday was
the sale by Bryan L. Kennedy for Miss
Esther McMurray % Clifton o. Marshall
of four story dwelling house and one
story brick store at the southeast corner
of ,69th street and Park avenue Miss Nc
Murray bought the property in 1892. She
sold ct for a sum several times greater
han what she paid.
FOURTH AVENUE Project
The old Putnam House site. an u"
F5ared plot surrounding the northeast cor
re- Of Fourth avenue and 95th street. Is 10
b improved with twelve story mercantile
building
The CID hotel vasS torn down recentiy and
the owner Of the property. Mrs Phebe s
Sinclair hes decided to begin the work Of
erecting the proposed building from plans
by Carrere & Hastings on Fourth avenue
the plot has a frontage of 4q4 feet with a
age is A-1o feet. beginning - feet east OF
Fourth avenue.
The Andrew !. Robinson COMPANY has
secured the general contract for the cree
ton % the building. which viii he Of thor
oughly fireproof construction and will en-
hody number of specially attractive feat
ures not usually found in building OF this
type. Owing TO the shape of the plot II
will be possible TO provide unusually com
plete shipping facilities at the 26th street
entrance OF the building.
Plans have been flied for a freproof
twelve story commercial building TO be
erected for Henry Corn from designs by
Aiaynicke & FRANKIE. architects. at No
80 TO - West 18th street. II is to be Of
brick, finished in limestone and terra
Gotta, having a frontage Of 1865 feet and
depth OF 50 feet. Il viii cost $4,000.
Plans have also been filed for twc six
story apartment houses, each S7Ia feet
trout, 70 contain twenty-five suites
each, and 10 be built for The King Con
stTuction Company, from designs by John
HaUser, architect, on ls7tn street. west OF
Amsterdam avenue, 10 cost 10000 and
soT two six story apartment houses, each
so feet front. 10 contain suites for fifty
eight and sixty families respectively 20 be
buiit for the John NJ Linck Construction
Company from designs by Charles Kroyen-
berg. architect, on 1Slst street east Of Fort
Washington avenue, at a cost of 500 900. /
Plans have also been filed for a one
Story theatre for moving picture shows. :
70 be built Of brick and staff composition. !
~ the southeast corner Of Ienox avenue ,
and 1890 street. at a cost OF sl5.o50. for the
Spencer-Blake Realty Company, from de- /
signs by Schneider & Dienenbach and TO
he called the LenoX Theatre, and for a FIVE
story factory for Mas * Blum at the
northeast corner of First avenue and l24;h
street, at a cost Of $4,000, from designs by (
kafka & Lindenmyer. architects.