New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-01
NEW APARTMENT HOUSE FOR BROADWAY
Operators Get Large Corner Plot at seth Street and Are to Build
a Twelve Story Structure
BIG OPEN STAIR TENEMENT FOR WEST Attn STREET

A long lease has been obtained, with an
option TO buy the property. at the south
east corner Of Broadway and seth street, by
Klein & Jackson from Edward a. CruiK-
shank. The site has frontages OF 100 feet
ON Broadway and 50 feet in the street at
present improved with two story lax
payer" on Broadway and two three Story
dwelling houses in seth street
As soon as the present leases on the prop
ertv expire the plot win he improved with
an up-to-date twelve story apartment
house, with stores. on broadway Inc
C'ru,ksbank company and William A.
White & Sons were the brokers in the
transaction.
The property is opposite the so-called
Evans block, on which A group or moderh
apartment houses is nearing completion
The rental TO be paid for the CruiKshanh
corner is about $4,000 year.
Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins has bought
from various owners No. b25 TO OF west
47th street. old buildings, on plot l"Xl"o
feet. between Tenth and Eleventh avenues
seven story model tenement house OF
the on.n stair twp, will he erected on the
site from plans by Henry Atterbury Smith
70 the model tenement houses erected on
,be Fas. side IN the seventies II VIII he
known as the Hartley Open stair Tene-
ment
Anthony y Brady and other wall street
men are identified with the corporation
which has been formed by Frederick Jonn-
son for the erection Of twenty-five stoIy
Office building az the southwest corner o.
Madison avenue and 42d street Details OF
the purchase Of the site and the proposeu
structure were told IN yesterdays tribune.
The conopanv will take possession on
Nav J. 1912. and the new building VII oe
resdv for occupancy by NAY l, 1918 Be
sides Brady end Johnson and his fa'her'
czeor1A = Johnson. and his brother. George
1obrson ir the syndicate includes I.
Y = billings and George F. Knapp, presi-
dent OF the Peoples Gas Company OF Ch-
cago and president OF the Union CARBIDE
conrany. The Union Carbide Company
and the gas company, which controls all
thA gas franchises IN Chicago. will occupy
AZ least four Aoors Of the twenty noors'
II e likely that the Brooklyn haplo lrShsl'
COMPANY will be a tenant
Ruhtnger. Klinger e. Co have sold FOR
the Stuvvesant Construction Company
Louis Nieberg. president. the six story
house. Nos. go and 232 East 18th street
on plot 4sx10s.3 feet. between Second ana
Third avenues. for $500. The purchaser
,s Annie Roth. who acquired the adjoining
and similar house at Nos. 226 and %
about three years ago, through the same
brokers.
An interesting sale was announced oE
John ]. Cody. affecting the two four s'oIy
fathouses at Nos. 129 and l3l East ga
street, the erection Of which caused the
construction OF the famous Richardson
spite" house. a five story building &C.
cupying a strip fronting FIVE feet on ga
street and 100 feet on Lexington avenue
Tn. houses we're sold for Hyman Sarner'
who has owned the property for twenty
seven years When they wero built the
owner desired TO get the Richardson strip
hut he wanted n prohibitive price and
when II was decided not to use the strip
richardson. to vent his feeling, built the
freak building. which he occupied as MS
residence for several years, the interior
being so small that IT was necessary 10
have all the furniture of kind that folds
m when not in use. The spite house
was sold al auction in 1902 by Joseph z.
Day for S1S.5OO TO Nathan Meyers.