New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-07

A number Of high class speculative pcop-
critics changed hands yesterday
One OF the principal transactions report
ed was the sale by Pease &c Gilman for
the Alliance Realty Company Of plot
l00.2x1S3 feet at the southwest corner OF
7s1h street and Park avenue. The buyer
viii erect on the site an apartment house
which he will hold as an investment
Bernard Hirsch. hat manufacturer,
bought from the Bankers Investing Com
pany the four story building at No. 80 West
3zth street and the abutting lot at No. 81
West 35th street, fronting, respectively, "a
and 20 feet, with q depth OF nearly 200 feet
through the block. The property was held
at $500 900. This price makes. II is said.
q new high record for the street The
property was sold through Clark T. Cham
bers. Mr.. Hirsch viii put up a twelve story
building on the site.
oppenheirn. Collins & Co. cloak and suit
manufacturers at Nos 80 and SIS West 34th
street, bought on Thursday the adjoining
building at No 81 from Mrs. Kate l. D.
Harnett. The firm VIII build an annex %
Its present store.
To Have Largest Tower.
r. w woolworth & Co. who a few
weeks ago purchased the group Of five Old
buildings comprising the southwest corner
OF Broadway and Park Place. have selected
the designs Of Cass Gilbert for the improve
ment Of the property. which fronts so feet
on Broadway and 1923 feet on Park Place,
with thirty story skyscraper.
The main section of the building Will
rise to height Of twenty stories, surmount-
ca by a tower section ten stories high. Sox
50 feet in area or larger than any similar
tower in the city. The next largest viii De
the Metropolitan tower. which measures ap-
proximately T4xS3 feet. The new tower
viii be topped with a roof garden, and the
top story viii be designed for occupancy
by club. The building will cost approx
mately s1.5oo.Oe0. II will have ten or more
passenger elevators.
The ground floor will be fitted for the
Irving Exchange National Bank and sew
eral Of the floors for the executive offices
of the purchasing company. This building
and the one TO be erected for the city near
the bridge terminal are diagonally opposite
the City Hall Park. The operations sug
gest the type OF Improvements which will
eventually surround the park.
Plans have been filed for a ten story
apartment house to be erected on the
triangular plot at Riverside Drive. 157th
street and Audubon Place with a frontage
of 22e.7 feet on the drive, 30S.9 feet on the
Street and 203.5 feet on the place. 1t Will
contain apartments for eighty-three fami-
lies. It Will be built by the Centre Realty
Company, Of which W o. Fredenberg is
president. Schwartz & Gross, architects,
estimate the cost al 100000
Plans have also been filed for erecting
two and three story restaurant at the
southeast corner of Broadway and 111th
street for Joseph Kennedy at a cost of
$25 900. The building will have a frontage
OF 500 feet on Broadway by % feet on the
street. The facade will be of brick, with
limestone trimmings.
Plans have also been filed for building a
five story store and loft building at No. IS
Union Square for the Hennessy estate at a
cost of $4,000.
Plans have also been filed for converting
the four story and basement dwelling
house at No 43 West 3Sth street into a
dwelling with stores and studios, for Bur-
ton s. Castles, at a cost Of $50. 900.