New-York tribune., 1910-01-14
UPTOWN BLOCK SALE
Il QUICK MARKET FOR FURNISS ESTATE
PLOTS IN RITERSIDE DRIVE
apartment Houses in s450000 Deal-Nesc Office for
Missouri Pacific Railroad

fair volume Of business was trans
acted yesterday in the real estate mar
ket New owners were found for some
choice uptown properties, fer parcel in
the Pennsylvania Terminal zone and for
s number of Bronx hathouses-
AS a result OF change in ownership
Of two large Riverside Drive plots and
an adjoining site. with an area of six lots.
the negotiations for the resale OF the
Furniss block were perfected
The FUrniss block is bounded by eeth
and Tooth streets. West End avenue and
Riverside Drive. 1t was recently bought
BY A I. Mordecai & Son (Inc) and He'll
ner & Wolf They sold yesterday 10 the
West Side Construction Company tJacob
Axelrod. presidentD six lots at the south
east corner of Tooth street and Riverside
drive and the six lots on the north side
OF esth street. 200 feet west of West End
avenue. taking in part payment second
mortgage OF $4,000 covering the north
east corner OF sSd street and Park ave
nue.. an apartment house known as the
Hanover
They also sold the plot OF five lots at the
northeast corner of Riverside Drive and
esth street TO q builder, VINO will erect
twelve story elevator apartment house on
the site. This will be the second similar
operation on this block a few days ago the
A. c. H NJ Hall Realty Company filed
plans for the Improvement Of the north
west corner OF West End avenue and esth
street with 8 twelve story structure, cost
ing 100000. BY these sales A l. Nor
deoat Co. and HeiIner s Wolf disposed of
their entire holdings in the block
transaction involving about s45o, 900
was the sale by the Brande Papa Company,
for the Anaconda Realty and Construction
Company, OF Norman Court and Sunderland
Court. two new six story elevator apart
rnent houses, st No. 522 to $50 West 1Ssth
street. on plot 2o9xss-11 feet
II was learned yesterday that the Mis-
sourf Pacific Railroad and the allied Could
roads. whose Offices are in the Western
Union Building, at Broadway and Dey
street will remove their headquarters TO
the City Investing Building in the near fut-
ure.
The Gould interests have secured ten
year lease of the entire ninth floor OF the
City Investing Building for term Of ten
years.
The new Churchill restaurant property.
a. the southwest corner of Broadway and
18th street has been Inortgaged TO the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company for
10000 at per cent for nine years. A rep
resentative Of ex-Police Sergeant Churchill
said yesterday that the mortgage had been
given 70 the trust company TO secure an
issue of 100000 worth OF per cent bonds.
Schwartz & Gross, architects, have filed
PLANS for Henry T. Bulman for two twin
six story apartment houses, each to con-
tain shirty-nine suites, with elevator ser
vice to be built at cost OF $l25,ooo each
on the block front on St Nicholas avenue
from leist TO 1oad street
Plans have also been fled for six story
apartment house. 10 contain accommoda-
tons for forty-eight families. 10 be erected
for the John 2. Berry Company at the
northeast corner OF Wadsworth avenue and
l77th street from designs by Neville &;
Bagge, as architects. It viii have a 'front.'
age OF $40 feet and a depth of 90 feet
and will cost s20o,n00.
Samuel Sass, architect. fled plans for re
modelling rhe lower part OF the seven story
oft building at No. z7 Division street TO
conform 10 the change Of street grade
made by the completion of the terminal
approaches OF the new Manhattan Bridge,
the improvements being made for Samuel
Kaufman. as owner. Plans have also been
fled by Charles 3. Meyers. architect, for
enlarging and refittins the five story fat
house and stores at 10. III Essex street.
The improvements being made for Bernard
Mayer. as owner. at a cost of 5000