New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-22
GOOD DEMAND FOR DOWNTOWN SITES
sales the Old Financial and Mercantile Districts LEADING Feat
ureS of the Realty Market Last Week.
Trade INCENTRAL BUSINESS AND UPPER HOME SECTIONS

J iott building. No. 127 10 I3l West 25th
/ street on plot 75xes feet, 10 an in
Nestor' who is a client of Morris H Hay
| man. IN part payment the construction
/ company took two six story fathouses on
a plot lo'Xl5S feet on the west side Of
/ Washington avenue. $50 feet north Of
/ l7Sth street
/ The 25th street site was bought by the
Olson company last May. and soon after
/ ward the work of improving IL with the
| loft structure was begun.
! The Twenty-ffth Street Construction
Company purchased from the Acme Mort
gage Company the 1athouses Nos. l43 and
I l45 West 29th street on & plot 4Sx4S.9
| feet, between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
The company intends to erect a twelve
story loft building on the site
Another sale OF property in this street
/ last week was that made through William
| J. Roome q co. The latter concern sold
No. 40 West 29th street for Harry G.
| Coss 10 Alexander Kahn The adjoining
house. No. 1OS. was sold in November by
the same brokers for Frank 3 Scofeld 10
Edwin q. Tweed It is understood that
Messrs. Kahn and Tweed represent Rain
thai & Newman. of the House Of Art"
and together with their 80 l06 control a
plot 64x9S feet
The premises Nos los and 40 West
Goth street were sold by the late John La
Fargo through the same firm in April,
1854 to Richard and William B0gardus.
The property was owned by the BOCariHs
family for nearly sixty years The lots
were purchased a. that time for about
$1,000 cash
one of the eading transactions in the
Upper West Side vas the sale by r. u.
Ludlow & Co. 10 JudsOn :. Todd Of the
entire block front on the west side Of Con-
vent avenue, from 1921 20 Ii2d street 10
feet in each street-about fifteen lots This
plot.wss the site Of the thirteen trees al
legged 20 have been planted by Alexander
Hamilton 10 commemorate the union Of the
thirteen original states during the Revolu-
ton At various times during the last ten
wears several historical societies have De-
tjtioned the city authorities TO purchase the
property and erect thereon some suitable
memorial.
The Hamilton homestead. known as The
Grange. extended from l2S,h n 18TH street
The house which still stands the corner
Of llst street. originally was on the lower
portion Of the estate. Il was from this
house. built in 1902. that Alexander Harnil-
ton went 70 meet Aaron Burr for the fatal
duel al Weehawken. on July Il. 1904
The property along Convent avenue was
restricted twenty-five years ago 70 private
dwelling houses exclusively. This restric-
ton expires in November. when the prop
erty will be improved by Mr. Todd with
ten story apartment houses The present
seller. David c. Leech, acquired this prop
erty through f. Fl. Ludlow & 90. I'm 1898.
Pease & Gilman sold for Gertrude b.
Miller. Of No $50 West I'D street. five
story American basement dwelling house
with an elevator. on lot 2fE1o2.2 feet. TO
a buyer, who will occupy The purchaser
is understood 70 he George w. Cook The
house Is one Of the finest on the West Side
T. faces Riverside Drive and commands an
extensive view along that tNor0Ughfare
Mrs Miller acquired the property about six
years ago and completely remodelled the
structure
A large Upper West side trade was made
by Willard Welt lie sold for fha estate Of
August Blumerthal. NO - 70 ~ WsT
slst street. four I'VE story double apartment
houses. each occupying a plot 3S.6xlo2.2, To-
Gated fOrty-six feet east Of Amsterdam ave-
nue.. 10 Mrs. L. A. Steers. She gave in part
payment No 22l3 to 2l7 Seventh avenue,
southeast corner Of 131st street, a five story
apartment house. with three stores, on plot
45xlO0 feet
The slst street houses were acquired by
Mr. Blumenthal in 1870 Adjoining them on
the east is a row OF private dwelling
houses. and the West End Synagogue, a
low structure, sbuts the property al the
raar