New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-15
THE MP'S BAY Church SITE SOLD
Premises Have Large Frontage in 9th Street Just East of
Third Avenue


Trading in the central loft districts ana
in the West Side apartment house zone
were features yesterday OF the real estate
market. Attention was about equally ol-
vided between investment and speculative
operations.
The old home Of the Kip's Bay NJ E.
Church on plot COX irregular on the north
side Of 37th street, e55 feet east Of Third
avenue. was sold by the Rutland & Whit
ing Company for the New York city
Church Extension and Mission Society or
the Methodist Episcopal Church The site
contains about e.1S5 square feet. The
buyer will erect a commercial building
OF the plot
Henry {. Lytton, OF Chicago, added TO
his holdings by the purchase Of the in
terest Of the John Davis estate II the
twelve story loft building No. is 70
% West Goth street, and extending to No
. West 18th street The property has q
frontage OF 20 feet in nth street and Of
3 feet in 18th street. Mr.. LyttOn bought
p two-fifth interest in the premises last
July and now controls the entire property
In mart payment for the property Mr..
Lytton Eave the six story apartment house
property at the southeast corner Of sixth
avenue and 9Th street, which he acquired
i'm March from Annie J. Levi. This parcel
fronts 4S.s feet on Sixth avenue. and %
feet on 9Th street. directly opposite the
station of the McAdoo subway. the grouno
floor being the quarters OF the West Side
Savings Bank.
This is the second large purchase tv
out-of-toWn interests within year on tho
10Th street block, between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. Last October Gordon Cunard. Of
London, a grandson Of the founder Of the
Cunard Line, purchased for investment
the eleven story loft building a. Nos. 8
snd West 2oth street
More Big Midtown Deals.
Another big midtown deal yesterday was
the sale Of the two five story buildings
Nos 1G5 and IS7 West 9th street, on 4
plot 5ox96-9 feet to q builder. This is the
block which was the scene Of vigorous
speculative buying last fall. It was later
almost entirely rebuilt with tall loft build
tngs- Some OF the new structures there
are now owned by investors. Moreover, a
market was also found yesterday for the
three story building No. 134 West I'D
street. on 4 lot % l0xes.9 feet II was
bought by Mayer s. Auerbach, through
r. II. Ludlow & Co. from several per
sons. Mr.. Auerbach bought, last spring, the
premises No. I26 10 120 West 22d street, and
resold the site TO the Aurora Investing
Company for Improvement with 4 twelve
story building
The principal West Side transaction was
the purchase by Charles Newmark and
Aaron W Davis Of the plot Of six lots on
Hath and I15th streets, just west of Broad
WY. They purpose erecting on the site
either one or two eight story apartment
houses.
The Hath street end Of the property has
q frontage Of 1o0 feet. beginning ID TeeL
west Of Broadway, and the Il5th street
PLOT fronts 50 feet beginning 1T5 feet west
Of Broadway Joseph NJ Lichtenauer was
tho seller Of five Of the lots. The other
Parcel. three story dwelling. Of sos West
Nth street. was disposed OF by Edith L.
ROtbsChilC-
Messrs Newnark and Davis have just
completed a row Of houses on 111th street,
east OF Broadway, on 4 plot acquired from
the Kip estate.