New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-11

of the real estate market yesterday.
1t was the purchase by Judson $. Todd
Of the premises No. 1923 to l4l West 29th
street. and Nos. /. 3, 8. 4. 6 and Pacific
Place The combined holdings comprise a
plot 1341x9S.9 feet. NJ & l.. Hess nego-
tisted the sale.
William F. Dixon was the seller Of No.
13l West Goth street; also Nos. /, and
5 and {. 6 and Pacific Place, including
the fee of Pacific Place, and No. 1877 to 14i
West Goth street.
Mr.. Dixon began assembling that plot in
1886 by the purchase of a strip of land
peculiarly situated. running diagonally
from Sixth avenue through to Pacific
Place. which was formerly used as a rope
walk He has owned the greater part of
the plot for from twenty 10 twenty-five
years.
Mary r. Heather. represented by George
w Mercer & Son, was the seller Of No. 1919
West 29th street That property was
owned by the Heather family for about
fifty years.
Mr. Todd will erect modern store and
loft building on the site. This structure
will have unusual advantages in the mat
ter Of light and air, owing 10 the way in
which the easterly part Of this block is
divided
The properties involved in the present
deal are directly opposite No. 1874 TO 40
West goth street. 1O0x9S.9 feet. sold by NJ.
& L. Hess, for Harry Samstag TO Aaron
Coleman, and again sold by the same
brokers for Mr.. Coleman to the Twenty
ninth Street Realty Company. which has
improved the site with twelve story
building. now leased TO one tenant for
twenty-one years at a net rental.
Place of Rope Makers.
Pacific Place came to he called the rope
walk" through the location there Of rope
makers, who, in olden DAYS. required long
strips Of land TO stretch hemp 10 he made
into rope
The block originally was part Of the
James 4 Stewart farm. who purchased
the land in 1893 from Abraham Brincker
hoff VINO in turn had acquired it from the
heirs Of Jacobus Van Orden. The lane
divided the Van Orden farm from the his
torical farm Of Isaac Varan on the south,
ard il was the way traversed by the old
residents TO reach Broadway. coming from
the lower part of the city along the Fitz-
avenue.
The present sale affects only a part of
the rope walk. which extends from about
the centre Of the block between 29th and
$0th streets eastward to Sixth avenue. but
the projected improvement Will effectively
close Il street long cherished for the pri-
vacy il afforded in q congested business
district
Pacific Place was laid out in small pr-
vate dwelling sites in the early SOS by
Pierce & Sturtevant. who. instead Of util-
izing the rear Of the lots for back yards.
provided a 90-foot alley and erected twelve
houses on a plot having a frontage of less
than 40 feet on 29th street, including the
alley. scheme which the subsequent
usage proved was very profitable.
Miss Mary Alexander is the buyer of
the St Regis. a six story elevator apart
ment house at the northwest corner of
Broadway and 1921 street. the sale of
which by the Sun Construction Company
was reported in January.
In part payment Miss Alexander gave
No. Go TO 60 Warburton avenue. Yonkers.
a five story elevator apartment house. on
plot 75Xl00 feet a. C. & L. A. Marks ne
gotiated the deal.
A 9th Street Project.
The Realty Holding Company. which has
recently bought the Bloomingdale prop
critics at Nc. SO and 3S West 9th street,
4sX9S9. Is planning to build there twelve
story structure similar 10 the one erected
by the company at No. 40 and ~ West 27th
street, adjoining. The two buildings win
have a combined frontage Of 90 feet.
The fact that the property to the east,
No 81 West 9th street. is under lease to
L. G A. Pincus for ten years, at $4,000 a
year. will give the proposed new structure
exceptional light and air facilities
Plans have been filed for the erection Of
a twelve-story loft and store building at
No. 1873 to III West 21st street, FOR the
Phoenix Holding Company, David Zipkin
president. This newest building for the
new loft section will have frontage of
1906 feet and a depth Of 81 feet, with
plain facade Of brick. with limestone and
terra Gotta trimmings and of fireproof con-
struction. George r. Pelham. architect, es-
Inmates the cost of this loft building at
$500 900.
Plans have been filed for making over
the four story tenement house and store
building on the west side Of Greenwich
street 1924 feet north Of Charlton street.
into a stable, at cost Of $4,000. for the
Hankinson Realty Company j. Charles
Hankinson is the architect,
Plans have been filed for making altera-
tons 10 the four story cafe and rooming
house on the east side Of West street. 5611
feet north Of Rector street, so as to de-
crease its height to a three story building,
and for building one story rear extension,
extending the building 306 feet. and put
ting in partitions TO provide for a dwelling
apartment at a total cost of $4,000 Bald
win & Nav, attorneys, are the owners.
John T. Langley is the architect
Plans have also been fled for the pro-
posed three story freproof theatre for the
ancient Order of Hibernians. at the north
east corner of Fifth avenue and 1l6th
street
This building viii have a facade Of brick,
with terra Gotta trimmings of the modern
Roman style Of architecture.
The theatre proper will have a total seat
ing capacity Of 1,75S, being divided as fol-
lows: 694 in the parquet; with boxes, us:
532 in balcony. including boxes. and 5lS IN
the gallery The building will occupy a
site long owned by the order and used by
an open air moving picture concern. The
architects, Hoppin & Koen, have placed the
cost OF this new theatre at 500, 900.
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