New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
THE AUCTION LIST
TESEY STREET S.4LES.
Heaer Estate Parcels .4mong
Offerings THIS H'eek.

Bryan /. Kennedy win sell on Wednes-
eav. by order Of the executor Of the Henr,
fseuer estate, many downtown and upper
West Side properties. The late Ar. Heuer
was large wholesale grocer at Hudson
and Franklin streets and lived in an DIG
time mansion in the Spuyten Duyvil section
His environment had evidently much TO &c
with shaping his course in the selection o.
slis realty investments for he seems 10 nav
started IL at Tesey street. west OF Broao-
way ard purchased plots either close &c
his business headquarters o. Oh the line
oaily travelled by him to and from business
The parcels arc 10 be sold TO carry out
the requests 10 his family and 20 charities
One property is Nos. 45 and - Nesey street
near Church street. almost in the shadow
OF the Hudson Terminal Buildings and
close 10 the northeast corner of Ncsey and
Church streets. which was sold last Novem-
Der by M-. Kennedy for the Meeks estate
End resold at private sale last weel, by the
purchasers at that sale to John l. Under
roed. Of the Underwood Typewriter Com
pany. ct a handsome profit. 1t ccmorises a
plot 5oxS5-5 feet with a six story building
and q FIVE story and loft building
Another property is Nos as and IS
puame street close 70 Broadway. and run
ming through TO Manhattan Place coll
slsting of plot 49.2x7s feet with TWO five
story stone front store and loft buildings
The property Is bounded on the west by
"'Cobweb Hall" a famous porter house
known TO old New Ycrkers. and is only $50
feet east OF Broadway The offering at
suction OF .a-foct front plots in this section
IS not OF frequent occurrence. The larger
part Of the property lying west Of Broad
Nay from Cortlandt TO Chambers street Is
owned by the Trinity Church corporation
.1ew York Hospital. Columbia University.
various subsidiary church corporations OF
Trinity Church and by some old New York
families
The ssle Of the Heuer holdings ~ Nesey
end Duane streets will 10 doubt attract the
e,,ention Of shrewd speculators, who realize
that in this section there is great demand
for 50-foot fireproof loft buildings. with
modern equipment. allowing either one or
TWO tenants on a floor. Such a building.
6oxSA feet twelve stories high Of fireproof
construction, can be built for s15e,eoo.
Other parcels to he sold by Mr.. Kennedy
are no. ~ Chambers street. near West
Broadway. a five story brownstone store
end loft building o41lX75 feet: No cog
Washington street. four story and attic
brick store and loft building. o. lGx41.ex
irregular: No. IS Eighth avenue. near 2ith
street d four story brick store and loft
building 19xlon feet III the pew Pennsyl-
rania Terminal loft section. in which there
g. such al active realty movement at pres
ent: northwest corner Of St. Nicholas ave
nue. and lz5th street. five story brick and
stone apartment house and seven stores.
size "a IIx1ea feet: Nos. 22e2 and 2aaa4 Eighth
avenue, near I'D street, two four story
brick tenement houses with four stores.
nue.. near l26th street. four story brick
tenement house with TWO stores. size ak
* feet: Nos "a ana 80 West 12stL street.
near Eighth avenue. two four story brick
end stone single fethouses. on plot 3411x
1noll feet: south side West eth street.
running through 10 north side Ilappock
street near Spuyten Duyyil ParkNay, large
glot. q SzSE6x irregular. with dwelling house
snd harm. and vacant plot on northwest
corner OF Washington avenue and 18th
street, The Bronx, size 9lzleo feet. The terms
&C the sale are liberal, as 20 per cent of the
purchase money may remain on mortgage
CT all Of the parcels.
TWO HISTORIC SITES
Among the sixteen parcels to bc sold al
auction OF THURSDAY are tUo historic
parceis. Nos. 1a4 and los Fifth avenue,
p-t7icll once were part Of twenty three acres
cr,rarrisinf the farm Of Elias BreTocrt The
7renty-three acres we're sold in 1852 II
Rose7ine Dawson. who in 14.5 sold then
egsin TO John Ousterman. yeon1an, WHO
rid less than S3oa an acre for the ground
end buildings and the fence, about which
the deed Is so particular
This property as then described Eos- II
the Bower division OF the out ward Of tht
city Of New York. and vas that property
IN in fence which ran from the land be-
lcnging 70 John Woods and running alons
rhe BoHery Road TO the lands Of John Smith
s-l7 tc the land belonging TO the heirs OF
th4 late Sir Peter Warren. Brevoor
Transferred the property to Roseville Daw
eoa. q butcher in 17se. Other owners were
Josiah ogden Hoffman and Rufus King. WHO
held q mortgage on the property. prepared
f,v his attorner. Nicholas Low. StepheI
Van Rensselaer,. Who had some interest il
the u operty, released MS claims. The farm
nas finally divided into three parcels II
11nl o. Thomas and Samuel Burling. whose
farms ran at an angle between Sixth ave
1.uz 18th and 18th streets, over 20 Bloom
iagGaie Road. between 18th and 18th streets
20 rs Fifth avenue was part Of the
5,rcpe-.v held by Thomas Burlins. The
property passed from the heirs Of Thomas
F.1rIire 20 John Paine and Peter Hayden
and lzter 20 Israel CoTSe. Who convey 90
II 70 Joel Z Wolfe. V hose estate l. be
frg sold at absolute trustees sale on Thurs
DAY
20 Is East sd street which IS 10 he
soid at executors sale on the same sales
dsr. vas originally common lands Of the
ciry and was conveyed under a provision
Of Governor Dongan's charter Of 1856 TO the
cir as being va ste. vacant and unpatented
land. This grant was confirmed by GOV
4-rnor Hrontgofnerie's charter.
Irl 17po the Nayor. Aldermen anG Com
r1onalty of the City Of New York con
Neved a large tract rig = in what Is now
tire Waldorf Astoria section, including the
lands east Of the Middle Road and adjo'n-
ing the lands Of casper Salnler and Mr.
Van Crden together with q parcel of z
aeres q John Thompson for the sum OF
Iss2 les.
in 1874 the CIT. sold ~ lots in this section
"a De Forest Manice for an average of
goo lot Other owners were Charles q.
Fia-e.ls. C5ustazus 4 Conover, Thomas +.
Smith James r. Ward and finally the Had
s5eus The sale Is TO settle the affairs OF
the estate II Anna Hadden.
THE BUDGET
The budget Tor the week vii Re as fol-
lows
TOMORROW.
F. Joseph p. Ds.-
tSrIs s. BIS s lT3 Il OF An@ :. 24xlo2 ;.
ST. tnrnt, with store; exr's sale. estate ~
Eleanor = Roberts. dec c
80