New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
BIG BRONX PROJECTS
ROW OF TEN 4P4RTMENT HOUSES TO BE
BUILT N UESTCHESTER 1fFENUE.
Large Deal in Kelly Street.-The L. Schepp Com ony to
Haze BROOKLYN Factoru

There was a good demand yesterday for
Bronx properties and for sites in the
.outherly districts of Manhattan Island.
The effect OF subway improvements on
surrounding property was again demon
strated in the section near the Intervale
avenue station of the Bronx branch OF the
subway. This section was Inactive up 70
The time that the Henry Morgenthau Com
panv and George Z. johnson contributed
$500 toward the construction Of the rev
station 81 lntervale and Westchester ave
'ues. Since the work OF building the sta
ton was begun the foundations for five ee-
Nator apartment houses in the district have
been laid.
The American Real Estate Company yes
;erday sold through Jacob Leitner 10 the
Winnie Realty and Construction Company,
Maurice Muller president, the southeast
corner OF Westchester avenue and Kelly
street, having d frcntages Of 2S7 feet In
Kelly street. 1t Will be improved with ten
high class apartment houses. The buyers
have Just completed. on two block fronts
On Intervale avenue, from Kelly to Fox
street, thirteen houses, OF which three
have already been sold.
The same broker also sold for the John
son Kahn Company the southeast corner of
1ntervaIs and Westminster avenues. 12lx
1S4X irregular, for immediate Improvement
This plot IS located AZ the foot of the sta
mon stairs.
IN addition 10 these sales Mr.. Leitner sold
plot Of seventeen lots on the west side
of Kelly street. 4l0x10O feet. seventy-three
feet south OF Intervale avenue, for the
Longvale Construction Company, and for
81 L. & c. Ernst, on the east side Of Beck
street. between Longwood and Intervala
Il fp- XXI feet faaf
nortll OF Longwood avenue. Both the Kelly
= Il Beck street piots viii be improved i'm
E.sdiatAiy
The l. Schepp Company. manufacturers
cf desiccated cocoanut, leased Yesterday
frcm the Bush Terminal Company floor
space il one OF its model loft buildings III
eouJll Brooklyn. All the leases signed
hitherto with the Bush company were by
firms who rented their former quarters,
while the cocoanut concern owns It's own
fuidIng. II Hudson and Duane streets,
Manhattan.
The present lease is for l16S5 square feet
O. the sixth floor Of Building No 4. now
e. course Of construction IN 18th street
Il the shipping facilities Of this location
prove as advantas eous as expected the en-
tire Schepp plant VIII be moved TO South
Brooklyn.
Plans have been fled for making over the
four story and basement dwelling house
70. AZ Madison avenue into a studio and
store building. with a fiat apartment in
cluded, the building being enlarged Tor the
new occupancy and the improvement made
from drawings by I. O. Maurer. "A archi-
tect. at cost Of sloep, for Isabella VI.
Fettus owner, and for remodelling the
house Of George O. Dewitt. al No. 81 West
5lst street. the improvements being made
from drawings by Richard \. Walker, as
architect
Stephenson & Wheeler. architects for the
Ganatin estate filed revised plans for the
proposed alteration OF the old brownstone
high stoop Gallatin dwelling house at the
southwest corner of Fifth avenue and sd
street into offices and warerooms for the
firm of Brewster & Co.