The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-08
THE REAL ESTATE MARKET
April BUILDING FIGURES Snow
q FALLING or.

Plans Flled IN Manhattan fer alS. 100. 90
worth - ConstrHctl0n Work. Against
GlE.TO0. OOO q Year NgS-l.Ous Csn-
nned q Tenemcnts- LEFT Iluildmgs.
The monthly building report for Man
haitian. given pDut by Building Superin-
tsndent Rudolph p. Miller and made up
by Statistician spencer. shows gains In
several classifcations Of buildings and a
falling on in Others The chief gain
was In store and loft buildinRs. and the
greatest loss in tenement house con-
struction.
The grand total Of new work for the
month Of April IL given a. Ga. 75i 400.
representing iIS new buildings. a decrease
Of ts7s, 100 in oapital investment az com
pared with the same month last year
and an increase Of fourteen IN the num-
ber Of buildings provided for The
decrease was principally in tensmont
construction. the figures in this classi-
hcation being twOnty-six tensments.
costing S.sS0OO0. last month. and fifty
three tsnsments. costing t0.lls.OO0. the
same month a year ago. loss Of tIeo.ooQ.
Store and loft construction Shove
thirty-ssven buildings. costing t0.osi 30.
last month. a. against eighteen buildings.
costing ta.OSO.OOO. in the same month
last year. an increase Of 7.O7I. COO In
capital investment.
once building construction shows an
increase % ts.l17.OOO but = decrease
in the number 81 buildings. PIans Wers
fled for three buildings last month. a.
against five during March.
The report shows a total investment
in new buildings Of tiS.S2A.77O for the
month Of March and nt.1si. go for April.
an increase % n.tO1.iSO
Tho notable new construction work 81
April included tho twelve story apart
msnt house al the southeast corner Of
Riverside Drive and tooth street. costing
tsoO. 900. for the West Side Construction
Company, twelve story apartment house
al the northeast corner Of Riverside Drive
and Ninety-ninth street. for the HiRhwOOd
Realty and Construction Company. cost
ing S77SOOO; a ten story apartment house
az the southeast corner Of Riverside Drive
and i50th street. costing 500. 200 for the
Willie Construction Company; a twelve
story apartment house costing 81 .OOO 600.
At tho northeast corner Of Broadway and
Ninsty-eighth street. for T. J McIaugh-
Inns sons; the thirty-nine story Office
building Of the Bankers Trust Company
at the northwest corner Of Wall street and
Nassau street. which IL to cost q. 600 .OOO;
a twelve story apartment house at Sas
Fifth avenue. for the Century Holding
Company. 10 cost tSOO 40; a sixteen story
store and loft building al a to 50 West
Twenty-eiGhth street. for the Regent
Construction Company. to cost $50. OOO;
two private dWelhngs. one on Fifth avenue
south Of Seventy-hfth street. To cost
tiOO 900. for Samuel Reading Bertron
the other for Oaklcigh ThOrne. at the
northeast corner ~ Park avenue and
Seventy third street. costing Si2s.OOO.
The alteration work in April included
several improvements Of note, among
them the enlarEinE u the four story
home % the Century Club az West Forty
third street, the remodclling % the resi-
dence u ". l.. Watts sherman at the
northeast corner 81 Fifth avenue and
Si1ty-tifth street. which consists Of re-
modelling the ballroom and the drive
way and partly remOdelhng the interor;
for making over thu two four story tene-
ments at iSs and leo West Sixty-hrut
street into . convent for the Dominican
Sisters Of the Sick Poor and for convert .
ing the two story stable on the south aide
Of Forty-fOurth street west Of Fifth
avenue, into an ART gallery.
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