New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

| Sales of upper Broadway properties fur
nished the chief transactions in the real
estate market yesterday. The Yorkshire
Realty and Building Company sold the Rox-
borough, twelve story apartment house.
at the northwest corner OF broadway anu
q2d street. for about $1,000 The struc'-
ure was completed by the sellers a rev
months ago. and occupies a plot lOT4 feet
ir Broadway and 125 feet In 92d street
The buyer is client and prominent In
vestor OF Lewis y. Preston, VINO was the
broker in the transaction.
| The other Broadway transaction was the
sale OF four story BUILDING, with stores
on a lot at the northeast corner OF ieth
street, fronting ?6s feet In broadway ana
So feet ia the street It was sold by Joseph
w. Jones to A. r. f. Pinchot VINO also
ihuys for investment The parcel hdJoins
the Manhattan Congregational Church, In
Brc adway
Tucker. Speyers e. Co. have sold for the
Advocate Realty Company. representing
Douglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown Com
pany. Nos Q and II West 3Sth street TO
the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Streets
Realty Company, recently organized cor
poration, which will erect twelve story
commercial building. This project VIII also
irclude the property No. II West Sgth street
hich was sold last week by the same
brokers for Maurice Mandelbaum and Dan
ieI B. Freedman. The latter parcel com
prses a lot 22x9ss feet abutting Nos. and
II West 2sth street which consists of plot
50xeS9 feet.
Plans for the building, which ia to he
n.,t.. .l,ar a hr
prepared by Elliott w. Hazard, who de-
signed the twelve story Castles building. at
No. SS to 43 West 3Sth street and the SINH
lar structure erected by Captain william
H. Wheeler at Nos. % and 30 West 5StE
street
Dikran Kelekian dealer I'm art goods and
curios has leased the house No. 3 Fifth
avenue. between 55th and 56th streeta from
Woodbury. G. Langdon. William l'ruik-
skanks Sons were the brokers IN the Vfans-
action.
George s. Corsa, the broker IL the
transaction, reports that the lease by the
Astor estate of Nos. Is to Is West 3Sd
street to the No. % West S3d Street Com
pany Daniel w. Richman, president, has
not az yet been cOnsummated, but upon
completion Of the plans the final papers
will be signed.
The plot is l50x9S9 feet, and the plans VIII
call for a twelve story and basement IRE
| proof store, office and loft building to cover
the westerly l2j feet. and the easterly
/ twenty-five foot lot will be improved with
! either a four or five story building, thus
I insuring permanent light to the easterly
| side Of the building.
] Ia H.
I waldorf Astoria Hotel and Astor Court.
I The building will be completed about No
vernber 1. 1912 The broker declares that
several Of the stores In the proposed build
/ ing and considerable office space are now
/ under negotiation for lease.
Edward b. Corey Is the purchaser OF the
property No. l3S 70 li6 West 4sth street
/ the sale of which by John II. Hindley was
reported in The Tribune ON October 10
James a. Dowd was the broker. The site
measures 9jxlOo.5 feet
/ The George T. Leaird estate. consisting
/ for the most part of East Side tenement
properties, was disposed OF at anction yes
terday for a total OF 230.lO0. which Is w.
/ 100 above the assessed valuation placed
upon the property by the city. The prop
critics sold are Nos. &C, 6S, 20, 70 and "A Ave-
nue. p. which were sold separately; NO llo
West l22d street Nos. 536. 53S and 5i8 East
9Th street. which were sold separately. and
! No $40 East 9TH street, which was an un-
usual offering, consisting OF the westerly
/ half Of building.
In a foreclosure suit brought by the Ma
tional Savings Bank Of the city OF Albany
the property, No. e3 Nassau street, adjoin-
ing the Prescott Building, at the southwest
corner Of John and Nassau streets, was
sold yesterday for $4,000 to Pierre G. Car
roll and others, who were the defendants in
! the suit.