New-York tribune., 1910-03-25

Speculative buying IN the new midtown
OF district and investment purchases In
Ne northerly residential cones were feat-
ares yesterday Of the realty market While
there were no transactions involving a mill
ION dollars or more there was enough high
clnss quality IN the trading 20 attract 90
no days business considerable attention.
In the midtown loft centre the sun Con-
structiOn Company. az which Benjamin Me
berg Is president. bought from 4. g. A.
Pincus thu old building No. Isl 90 Isl
West 26th street. covering a plot lo0xsS.s
feet near Seventh avenue. on that site
the company viii erect a twelve story Tort
structure.
Another deal in the same district was the
purchase by william N. sink og the two
lhnee story buildings Nos. 233 ana ~ West
nth street, on a lot &x7slOx irregular. The
premises were sold by J. W. cushman g.
%. for Oeorgianna Z. Sammls. II was also
learned yesterday that the negotiations 20
purchase the twolve-stOry loft building
no. IS 10 a. West 2st street. on a plot
S.sxsSs feet owned by Louis Sachs. are
nearly comDlsted.
one ~ the p-tncipal uptown investment
Seals was the purchase by a cilent of Kirk
patrick q Urguhart from Rosenberg a
Young of the fve stoFy hathouse. with
stores. No. 22c Amsterdam avenue on a
plot S76NloO feet
Plans have been fled 6y king a Walker.
Rrchitects. for remodelling the roof garden
atop of the thirteen story Engineers club
house. Ecs. 50 and 81 West Goth street, en-
closing a section with g hrepro0f aTched
roof. finished with arched Colonial door
ways and paved with cement tiling. The
unsheltered part Win he used as a summer
garden. as formerly.
Plans have also been nled for a six story
apartment house. s4KsS feet. and 90 con-
tain suites for f0Tty-three families. II VIII
be built from designs Ivy Bernstein g.
Bernstein. architects. for Harbater a. SIX
speculative investors. on 18th street. just
west Of sixth avenue. a a cost of sS5.50oo
Plans were also hled for a six story ware
house for the Becker Realty Company,
Julius Becker president. at the northwest
corner ~ Greenwich and l2th streets, from
designs ny Schneider g. Dinenbach. as
architects. al a cost Of SS.O0.
Plans have also been filed for remodel
ling the store al the northwest corner Of
the new Fifth Avenue Building. az Broad
Way and Path street. and installing an ele-
vator and a new marble staircase 10 the
basement the Improvements being made
and for adding an attic story 20 the ave
and six story once building Al No. 25 West
f2d street now owned by Walter ]. Solo
mon. the Improvements being made from
designs by Eugene Schoen as architect.
Plans have also been filed for doubling
The size ~ the two story and basement con-
verter station ~ the New York Edison
Company al Nos. 2l9 and eI West Sth
street by adding a two story and basement
annex from designs by ". Neissenberger.
lr.. as architect al cost Of S700o0. and for
adding two additional stories 20 the two
story and basement mandatory al the
northeast corner Of Eleventh avenue and
SSth street. ana further enlarging the
building by q four story extension. the inn
provoments being made Tor Louis J. jan
aorf as owner al a cost OF $4,000 from de-
signs by David Stone, architect.
Plans have also been filed for enlarginE
and rernodelling the four story dwelling al
30. SO West 10Th street. the improvements
30 he made from designs by Charles A
Luckhurst as architect for Dr. Howard c
Taylor. owner.