New-York tribune., 1910-01-23
SPECULATIVE DEALS
TRADING IN THE DYCKM4N DISTRICT Il
FEATURE OF THE MARKET.
Nesc OCner Found for Many Sites Washington Heights
important Sales IN Other Sections

In part payment for the Washington
Heights plots he gave to the Fleschmann
Realty and Construction Company the
southeast corner of Broadway and 124th
street. six story apartment house on a
plot 10e.l1x1oo feet and a similar house. OH
plot 75x1o0 II feet. at Nos 547 and $40 West
12Sd street, 100 feet east of Broadway.
Washington Heights deal involving
about s1so0o0 was the sale by Edouard
Dressler and Henry Beck, for the Broad
Construction Company, of the northwest
corner of Audubon avenue and 17Sth street,
six story elevator house, known as the
Lynwood on plot 75xl0o feet.
Still another large deal last week in the
district was the sale by George J. Becker
of Nos 600 and Sl1 West 17Sth street a five
story apartment 'nopse, on plot 5Ox10O feet
The property is on the north side of the
street. between st. Nicholas and Wads-
worth avenues
IN THE MIDTOWN DISTRICT.
One of the principal transactions last
week in the midtown loft zone was the
sale by j. L. Phillips & Co. for the Gentle
estate to the Hamilton Holding Company
Oowenfeld & Prager) of No 2S6 West
18th street, three story and basement
dwelling, on lot 20xSs feet The property
adjoins the southeast corner of Eighth
avenue. This was the first sale of the
property in sixty years
S. D. Cooper sold Nos. 50 and "a West
25th street, two four story buildings, on a
plot 5O.6xSSS feet The property is 100 feet
east Of Sixth avenue. 1t will be improved
with a twelve story loft building.
The Charles Buck Construction Com
pany sold No 153 to 157 West 2Sd street
three four story buildings on plot COX
$50 feet The buyer is a builder, who
will erect on the site a twelve story loft
building
Benjamin r. Lummis sold for about $780,,
600 for John j. Geraty TO an investor No.
10e to 115 West 26th street, eleven story
business building, on plot 50x9S.9 feet, 125
feet west of Sixth avenue
S. B. Goodale G. Son sold for Emile j.
Wittnauer, as attorney for Martin s. Witt
nauer, No. 81 West 25th street. a four
story and basement dwelling house, on lot
23x9s.9 feet.
The estate of William z. Devlin sold for
E c. Roach for occupancy No. 33S West
22d street, a three story and basement
dwelling house, on lot 25x9S9 feet
The George V. n Baldwin estate sold
Nos. 470 and Az Seventh avenue. two
three story buildings. on plot 45x100x
irregular, about 81 feet north of 35th
street. The property was said TO have
changed hands at little less than $l40, 600.
j. Arthur Fischer and John P. Kirwan
sold for Katherine and Clara Schefsky to
r. c. Hamilton the four story brownstone
dwelling house No. 243 West 39th street,
on a lot 16.sX9s.9 feet. Arnold Byrne &
Baumann sold to Louis Bernstein No. 241
to 246 West 37th street, a plot 75X98. 9
feet
THE FOURTH AVENUE DISTRICT.
In the central Fourth avenue district
one of the leading deals last week was the
sale by Mrs. 4 D. Danforth of No. 442 to
44s Fourth avenue and Nos. 49 and 81
East 3oth street, three five story tene-
ment houses and two four story dwelling
houses, on plot 749xS4s feet, at the
northwest corner. The property is di-
rectly opposite the building of Dodd, Mead
& Co
Among the large transactions on the
West Side north of 59th street reported
last week was the resale by the West Side
Construction Company, of which Jacob
Axelrod is president, of six lots on the
north side of Goth street, 200 feet west of
West End avenue, to a builder who will
erect two eight story apartment houses,
75xl00 feet each, on the site.
The W. AXelrod Realty Company sold
the Circle six story elevator apartment
house. No. 100 Morningside avenue to the
NJ. r. L. Building and Investment Com
pany, of which Samuel Levy is president
Perciyal Ferquahar bought last week the
four story and basement house No. 1880
Fifth avenue. at the northeast corner of
seth street. 1t occupies lot %. .2x1022 feet
1t was sold for the estate of Joseph j. Law
renee by Samuel Godsticker
". ". & T. NJ. Hall sold No % West SGT h
street, one Of a row of ten modern, fire
proof. elevator, American basement resi-
| dences they erected recently on the south
| side of West s6th street between Central
| Park West and Columbus avenue. This
! dwelling house was held at 10000.
The site in The Bronx bought last week
| by the Montefiore Home was purchased
! through Hall J. How & Co. from John A.
and Edwin Townsend and William Picken
| 1t comprises the entire frontage on the
southerly side OF Gun Hill Road from
Woodlawn Road to Rocha mbeau avenue
and extending to 210th street, and the two
block fronts on the southerly side of 2l0th
street. between Woodlawn Road and Steu-
ben avenue.
The plans for the proposed new home
provide for the erection of a three or four
story building, with modern hospital equip
ment for the accommodation of at least six
hundred patients, and a series of smaller
structures. including one for the general
| staff and nurses.