New-York tribune., 1911-12-22

A transaction of a series Of sales OF
big anartment house and dwelling struct-
ures that aggregate well into the miiiiohS
was announced by the Alliance Reai'S
Company Yesterday. This concern sold
the Nevada, a seven story apartment mouse
occupying the entire block bounded O'
Broadway, Amsterdam avenue, 6sth ana
10th streets, the plot containing about loui-
teen thousand square feet, with frontages
of 225 9ll feet in Broadway, 2C0.10 feet In
Amsterdam avenue, 1884, feet In eSth
street and S5S feet in 10Th street
This property has been sold through
Douglas Robinson. Charles 5. Brown q Co.
10 the estate OF d. Willis James, ana the
lanes estate has leased It back through
the same brokers to one tenant at net
rental for p period of sixty-three years.
The Alliance Realty Company reports
that IT has also purchased from Mrs. Ellen
f. James and Arthur Curtss James NO
x, IN 162 West S6th street and No. lA to
172 West S7th street, comprising twenty
two private houses I'm the block between
Columbus and Amsterdam avenues hl'eeh
of which houses are I'm Sth street ana seven
Of which are in S5th street and all ol
which are now occupied by tenants Ihe
land upon which these houses stand fronts
40 feet in seth street and 2I26 feet III
! S7th street. comprising sixteen and one-hail
city lots. 1t is unrestricted ana Is sultao'e
| for the construction Of tall apartment
buildings. 1t is directly convenient to the
seth street station of the Broadway SUD
way and to the new station of the elevated
road under construction at Columbus ave-
nue. and s6th street.
Rosmond Court, a six story elevator
apartment house, on the south side OF ll'th
street. adjoining the Croton Aqueduct gate
house. at the southeast corner OF Amster-
dam avenue, just east OF the grounds OF
Columbia University. has been acquired ~
an investor The building covers plot
lOOxl27x irregular, No. 424 to iSo, and was
sold for Bing & Bing by NJ. Cohn and De
Selding Brothers.
This property was recently acquired oy
Bing & Bing in an exchange for the block
front on the east side of Manhattan avenue
between 122d and 123d streets, nine lots
| from the Jumel Realty and Constructor
Company.
The Queen Nab Realty Company 1AleN-
ander Mcdowell PRESIDENT has bought
through l.. J. Phillips & Co, from William
,E White, the southeast corner of Audu-
bon avenue and 1Sith street, fronting "
feet ON the avenue and 20 feet in the street
The new owners viii erect nigh class
apartment house on the site.
Plans have been filed for a new theatre
to be erected for the Johnson Amusement
Company on the south side of 13Sth street
$50 feet east Of LenoX avenue. 1t will have
a frontage Of 50 feet and a depth OF S3.ll
feet, with a facade Of brick, limestone and
terra Gotta, and Of freproOf construction.
There viii be studios i'm the building as
well. Thomas w Lamb, the architect, es-
Inmates the cost at $4,000. 1t VIII have a
seating caracity Of about nine hundred.
\ twelve story apartment house will be
erected on the northeast corner Of Park
avenue and lth street. IL will have a
frontage of 1904 feet on the avenue and SEQ
feet I'm the street. and have accommoda-
tions for twelve families. The Park Ave
nue. and Fifty-fOUrth Street Company, Of
which Frederic w. Allen IS president IS
the owner Cross & Cross, architects. have
placed the cost at 100000 Plans for the
same were filed yesterday.