New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

49, owners were found last week for
80 attractive investment properties on
,fsnna..su Island and in The Bronx
,Toreover. there was a fairly good demand
sor speculative parcels in the two bor-
oughs.
In a large number Of fiourishng districts
in The Bronx builders showed greater &C
rvity than they have since the first week
OF the fall season. and several plans filed
by big builders for improving sites south
Of the Harlem River were of more than or
dinary interest.
Among the Manhattan projects perfected
were a $4,000 twelve story apartment
house, which viii face Gramercy Park; a
s25a.eo0 nine story apartment house to he
put I'D at the northwest corner Of Seventh
avenue and Cathedral Parkway, and a
10000 six story loft building. with store.
10 be erected on the easterly side Of Fifth
avenue, Just south Of 56th street, for Wood
bury G. Langdon. The Fifth avenue build
ing will be from plans b. Trowbridge &
Livingston.
AT present there are no elevator apart
rnent houses in The Bronx over six stories
IN height It was learned last week that
James F. Meehan. the well known builder
and speculator, is preparing plans for an
eight story elevator apartment house for
q plot at the northwest corner of 1soth
street and Southern Boulevard
It will occupy one OF the largest corner
parcels in this section Of The Bronx and
will represent an investment OF about 500
600 The plans are being drawn by Charles
O. Kreyenborg. All Of the big apartment
houses equipped with elevators and erected
On Bronx plots in recent years are in
ties in this Wideawake borough. It is gen.
orally thought in realty circles that the
eight story house Will also prove TO be an
excellent investment and that Mr.. Nee
hans project will be followed by many
similar ones
Growth OF Many Sections Rapid.
These are only a few Of the investment
and building operations last week that re-
fected the rapid growth OF many alIuring
districts of the greater city, and also the
larger drawing power OF the Manhattan
and Bronx realty fields TO spectators and
investors.
Truly The Bronx gave q good account of
itself last week. and this II is expected to
DO from now until the end OF the next
spring season, with each week witnessing
q slight increase in realty investments and
building activity over the previous one.
II looked early in the week If old
Manhattan was 10 be vastly overshadowed
by the volume of business done IN the
northerIy borough But toward the latter
part OF the week its earlier realty tardt-
ness was forgotten by the big transactions
in some OF It's most rapidly growing bust
ness and residential zones. The old Chel-
sea district furnished a deal involving about
$500 900. the downtown district an exchange
Of Broad street and University Place prop
critics valued al about So oo0, 600, the east
erly midtown districts several important
purchases and the great West Side north
Of 59th street a number Of operations which
resulted in e change Of ownership Of some
big apartment houses. One sale on Wash
ington Heights recalled 10 mind once again
The very rapid growth Of this great dis
Irict ever since the opening of the subway,
IN 1904 This was a sparsely settled region
six years ago. at which time the number
Of apartment houses there could be quickly
counted. The Holyrood Episcopal Church
bought not many years ago a plot at the
southwest corner Of Is1st street and Broad
way, fronting 1898 feet on Broadway and
Z85 feet in the street, and on that site
- built an edifice for its own use. Vacant