New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-08

Most ~ the business transacted In the
real estate market yesterday was confined
10 dwelling and tenement house property
William II. whiting & Co. sold for ihe
Jacobus estate the entire block front on
the south side of Morton street. between
Greenwich and Washington streets. The
nroperty includes No 62S to ga Greenwich
street. No. go TO s6 Morton street and NO
GIL TO 6l5 Washington street. and contains
In all over 70, 200 square feet. The buyer Is
Charles Laue. No definite arrangements
have been made for the Improvement OF
the plot as yet but In oil probability q
twelve story ireproof structure VIII DC
erected on the site, II is said.
Three Of the remaining four private
dwelling houses on the north side or bsth
street will probably be torn down in the
near future TO make way for an apartment
house The properties are the three four
story houses, on a plot 5OXloo5 feet. at Nos
1913. 195 and 137 West 18th street. which have
Just been sold by the Clinton Realty Com
pany. through the brokerage firm OF Moore
&, Wyckoff.
The new structure, it is understood VIII
be nine stories high 1t will enjoy excel
lent facilities in the matter of light and
air, being separated by n l-foot court
or passageway from the Tolosa apart
ments The latter building is the
most easterly OF the group of Navarro
apartment houses, which cover the entire
westerly half Of the block bounded by 18th
and 59th streets, Sixth and Seventh ave-
nues The Clinton Realty Company bought
the 5sth street houses I'm 1905.
n 81 a.
Fleischman) has sold the St. Francis Court,
a six story elevator apartment house al
the northeast corner Of Riverside Drive
and l35th street The property fronts 1919
feet on Riverside Drive and l25 feet on
Both street. and adjoins on the north the
Beaconsheld a similar structure
7. Randolph Jacobs. who recently accumu-
lated the four three story dwelling houses
at No S1i to 800 West S7th street, occupy
ing a plot S0x100S feet between West End
avenue and Riverside Drive, has resold the
property through a. & c. Lewis. The pur-
chaser is Edwin s. Briclner. who will
erect on the. site n nine story apartment
house. from plans by Rouse e Goldstone.
II will be laid out with two apartments on
a floor Of eight and ten rooms
Herner & Wolf have sold to Lee Kohns,
OF the firm Of /. Straus & Co, No. 20 East
s1st street a four story dwelling house, 2O5
xlO22 feet. about IL feet west Of Madison
avenue. Mr. Kohns will tear down the
house now on the lot and erect five story
American basement dwelling house for his
own occupancy. Henry d. Winans d May
were the brokers in the transaction
Plans have been filed for home for
Charles Rowland Russell by Hunt & Hunt.
architects. on the north side Of 73d street,
l9S feet east Of Park avenue, a. cost OF
5000 IT will have a frontage Of 2 feet
and depth Of SIS feet. with a FACADE ~
hrjcl, and limestone in the Gothic style OF
architecture.
Plans have been filed for fireproof IRE
escare bridge over the court in thes rear
of No. 81 West 4Sd street. connecting it
With the main building Of the Association
Of the Par Of the City Of New York on 4ith
street. This bridge will he built at level
or the third story and will cost $500 y.
J. Smith is the architect.
Plans have also been fled for removing
the entrance porch Of the Buckingham, at
the southeast corner OF Fifth avenue and
10th street and part Of the wall at the
corner 10 allow for installing show windows
on the avenue side and for the widening
y, the avenue at cost OF $1,000. The
George Kemp Real Estate Company is the
owner Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker are
the architects.