New-York tribune., 1910-04-28

More projects for improving sites in the
rev midtown loft centres We're perfected
yesterday. There was ais a noticeable in
crease In purchasing operations in the
uptown residential districts.
The premises Nos IS and 30 West 18th
street, with a frontage OF 30 feet and a
oepth OF $50 feet were sold twice. Miss
Annie DE Voc and Mrs. Bertha Bartlett
sold the parcels through n & l. Hess 20
she Realty Holding Company. The same
brokers then resold the property for the
Realty Holding Company 10 the A. & ;.
Construction Company. with a building
loan for the erection OF q twelve story and
basement mercantile building.
The adjoining property recently sold by
the Realty Holding Company 10 the 25th
street Construction Company, of which
George /. Felt is president. is being i'm
proved with a similar structure. Both
buildings VIII have the same floor levels
end in view OF that the owners may Jointly
accommodate tenants desiring lo.oOo square
feet OF space on each floor.
The Brunswick Realty Company. OF
which +. c. Zobel is president. leased the
rremises Nos. Is and IS East 22d street just
OF Broadway from the Mum estate for
Ewenty-one years with privilege 20 renew
tor two similar periods. The site viii be
immediately improved with twelve story
store and loft building. plans for which are
now in preparation. The total rental for
she term viii be about sl.OOoOe0.
The house No. il has been occupied as
the Mum family residence for upward OF a
half century. The lease was negotiated by
George r. Randolph.
Directly opposite No. j is the stevens
family residence, which was purchased re-
Gently ny Judson s. Todd for q loft build
sng Improvement and at the Fourth avenue
corner Mills & Gibb are now erecting their
new building covering the former site Of
the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church.
Escslator Subway Station.
he new Inte-vaIe avenue station of the
subway. on WeStchester avenue. the first
escalator subway station in The Bronx
~fll be formally opened by Cyrus C.. Miller,
president Of the Borough OF The Bronx. st
rocn on SATURDAY
This station IS in the heart OF the Hunts
Point section. where the great real estate
development OF the combined interests OF
the Henry Morgauthau Company, George F.
johnson & Sons and the American Real
Estate Company has taken place
u cost nearly a hundred thousand dol
lars, and was paid for by private capital.
Norgenthau Company. George =. johnson
- Sons, Jacob Rupert and the Broadway
Cathedral Parkway COMPANY
Before the work of building tais station
was begun there were hardly any improve
snerrs IN Tho neighhorhcod. To-day there
ore five elevator apartment houses in
rou-se Of construction. and three have been
completed. The formal opening viii be
Followed 10y a luncheon 10 be served by Del
suonico 81 the Hunts Point the largest
End ole OF the finest six story elevator
apartment houses in this CITY. The apart-
snent house was recently built u Is within
few blocks Of the station. Many prouli-
reut citizens viii take part iu the exer-
tisee.
Plans have been fled for converting the
fvo story stable on the north side Of zsth
street, 150 feet west Of Fifth avenue, into
CT art gallery Tor Augustus V. Clarke.
lessee OF the building. new front Of
brick, ornamented with Ionic columns At
the firsi floor. 81 TO be built aid a rear ex-
tension. 1OXl9 feet interior alterations and
large glass skyiiEhts, built at = cost OF
$50. The Fifth Avenue Bank is the owner
Hno a. Y. Gibbins is the architect
Plans have also been filed for six story
apartment house 10 he erected at Nos. "a
and e16 West 2lst street for Samuel IApn1an-
The building viii have a frontage Of 46s
rect and 2 depth Of 500 feet and viii con
tain apartments for thirty-one families
Charles 3. Meyers. architect places the
cost al $1,000
Plans have also been fled for a new head
quarters for Postoffice Station ", TO be
built on the south side OF SD street, $50 feet
cast OF Amsterdam avenue with frontage
of IS feet and depth OF Il06 feet The
building is 20 be two stories high and is 20
cost S25.ee0. Walter A Wellcs Is the owner
snd George 7. Pelham architect
Plan Fifth Avenue Apartment
TIE Century Holding Company yesterday
fled plans for the twelve story apartment
house 10 be built at No. s9s Fifth avenue
north corner Of Slst street The house will
accommodate eighteen families and viii
cost 10000 The architects are McKim
ciead d White. the building will front
5"2.2 feet Oh the avenue and 10 feet on the
street. The site was bought last November
from August Belmont by the Century Hold
,ng Company, through Pease & Gilman.
About month ago the buyers secured a
loan OF Sl.350.OO0 FOR carrying out their
project Tor the new house. The loan expires
On 1870 interest being at & per cent 20 April,
1915. and per cent thereafter.
The proposed apartment house will be the
only one IN Fifth avenue between 6Gth street
emo the slope OF Carnegie IAN. ~ 92d
street. The new house. Of course. viii be
vi "a high type.
Plans have also been filed FOR . twelve
STORY store and loft building to be erected
o. No. IA 10 l52 West 9th street. with q
Erontage of C7-s feet and depth Of IS feet
The fscade VIII be OF brick, limestone and
terra Gotta. The Peoples Cooperative
Property Company, OF which Samuel May
e-s D. president, IL the owner. Buchman &
JoE. architects, estimate the cost at $40 eo0