New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-22

Several interesting sales were announced
In the real estate market yesterday Chiet
in interest of these was transaction IN
the Washington Heights section OF two
large elevator apartment houses, involV"
ing $4,000.
The sale was made by the Ambrose
Realty Company, of which William n
Harte is president. 10 the Brown Realty
COMPANY The two structures that figured
I'm the transaction are at No. 10 to 16
West 1ast street. 40 feet east Of Fort
Washington avenue each occupying plot
1oOx14Ox irregular, and arranged for the
accommodation of sixty families. In OK
change the Brown Realty Company gives
TO the Ambrose Realty Company parcel
Of thirty-dve lots IN East 55th street. be-
tween First and Second avenues, Brooklyn
The transaction is understood to have been
negotiated by H. d. Baker.
The houses are two of row Of three
built by the John VI. Lnck Construction
Company last year. The company traded
two of them last May with Bling & Bing
for the block bounded by Edgecombe and
ST. Nicholas avenues, l37th and 10th
streets. The property was resold by the
Bings a few days later 10 the Ambrose
Realty Company.
Another interesting sale in the same sec
ton wss that Of the Dacorn dwellings, a
six story elevator structure al the north
east corner of Fort Washington avenue
and 1soth street, on a plot 1c0Xl4tbX irreg-
ular The property was sold by the Hol-
land Holding Company, of which Judson ;
Todd is president, to T. d. Leonard. In
part Mr. Leonard gave the dwelling house
No 1sH Lexington avenue and 5o-foot
plot on the east side Of Valentine avenue
q feet south OF l96th street, both parcels
being reported sold Wednesday. The deal
was negotiated by II. c. Selinor & co.
The Dacorn dwellings were erected by
the Dacorn Realty Company, John l. De-
Wis, president. in 1909 The property was
sold in foreclosure last August and was
taken over by the Holland Holding Com
pany.
Among the plans filed yesterday were
those for another apartment house on Riv-
erside Drive This one will occupy the
large plot at the north corner Of Hath street
and will cost 81 10000 according 10 the
architect, c. Ajello
The site is IS feet IN the Drive and 1874
feet in the street. Until recently the
Rudd homestead, about one hundred years
old. occupied this plot The present owner
is the A. c. q II. NJ. Hall Realty Com
pany. which will carry out the new puiid-
ing project under the corporate name OF the
Riverside Drive Realty Company. The new
house will accommodate eighty-seyen fanl-
lies
Another important removal from the old
Broadway mercantile district TO the new
Fourth avenue colony is foreshadoWed oy
4 lease which has just been closed cover
ing the four upper floors in the hrldel
Building at No. $40 TO 396 Fourth avenue
The lessees are Simon Ascher d Co.. man
ufacturers of knit goods. now at no. go
Broadway. between Prince and Houston
streets The Lease is for = long term ana
an annual rental said TO be in the neigh-
horhood of $1,000 The Kridel Building oc-
cvpies a frontage Of S. feet on the west
eide of Fourth avenue between 9th and
18th streets.
Albert p. Ashforth he's leased for George
Raker the FIVE story American basement
dwelling at No. 10 East Ssth street for
term Of years to Mrs. John c. Hackett.
This is one Of the two houses that MI
Baker purchased from an operator in
March, 1910, subsequent 10 the eOtuio'''O'
of the Allston apartment house property
10 prevent the erection Of large busl-
ness building already under construction
Plans have been fled for building one
and two story garage, stable and animal
shelter on the southwest corner Of Avenue
A and Ath street for the American So
cjety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to AMI
mails. II will have a frontage OF 1873 rect
and depth of SD feet, ireproof with
facade of brick, granite and limestone
Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker the archl-
tects estimate the cost at $4,000.