New-York tribune., 1912-04-05

The property at No. 1O2 to loS Pearl street
| No. S 10 Is Old Slip. and No. 6S to Y Water
| street, was sold to G. Maxwell Kaeppel
OF the realty firm Of ogden g. Clarkson.
| for various owners 70 Grace & CO. On the
site an eight story Office structure will be
erected for the exclusive occupancy Of the
firm from plans by DOench & Yost.
The plot has frontage OF SIS feet in
Pearl street, 573 feet In Water street ana
lac feet in Old Slip-the entire block front.
Eight old four story buildings are now on
the site. The former owners were Edgar
]. I,evey. the Ranken Realty Company, the
Samuel Barber estate and the Ertheiler es-
tate.
Douglas Robinson, Charles S, Brown &
Co. sold 10 Harris and Maurice Mandel-
baum No. SO Union Square. occupied by the
eleven story Decker Building, one of the
first tall structures erected fronting on the
Square.
The property measures SO,6xl5o feet, with
an alleyway TO 10th street. and was dis
posed Of for approximately 100000 TO the
operators who bought on the strength OF
the movement Of lace concerns to this sec
ton from lower Broadway. The land was
improved by the Decker Piano Company
which leased It in 1892 for twenty-ope years
and renewals the first period expifing May
!. 1913 At that time II was owned by Will
lam H. Townsend, who. with other mem
hers Of his family occupied about half the
block between 18th and 18th street for many
years, having moved there from Bowling
Green, where the family homestead was To-
Gated The corner now occupied by the
Bank Of tho Metropolis was owned by
Austen @. Fox, and the next lot to the
north. until last year occupied by Schirmer'
the music publisher, was owned by another
brother, Isaac Townsend. and is now owned
by Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop, Isaac Town
end, Mrs. Henry Sackett and Mrs. George
Bend, his children.
The present sellers are the daughters CT
William H. Townsend, Mrs. Judge John
Clinton Gray, Mrs. Mary A. Kemeys, OF
Paris, and Mrs. George G. Wheelock. The
family have owned the property since about
! 1S4O
| II was reported yesterday that negou-
ations are under way for the sale OF the
saxony apartment house. at the southwest
corner of SD street. together with the dc
Witt apartments, adjoining on the street
| 10th parcels composing plot 9Oixl57 feef.
| These properties are owned by the estate Of
| Morris X Jcsup which formerly owned tile
| Carlisle Dwellings. at the southeast corner
! Of SOD street and West End avenue, IN the
| same block The estate sold this structure
! a year ago to Franklin Petit who subse-
ouentlv resold il to Emmanuel Van Raalto.
The Jesup estates realty holdings are In
charga Of tho Douglas Robinson. Charles $.
Brown Company, but at its offices yester-
day nothing could be learned concerning
| the reported transaction for the SaXony ana
| the Dc Witt.
| Henry Y. Coe, It was learned yesterday,
| is the buyer of the southeast corner OF
| Broadway and 18th street 51.7X45,2 feet,
the sale of which by Frederick w. salt
zieder was reported IN Tuesdays Tribune.
The transaction was made through the
/ Douglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown Com
pany, which has represented Mr.. Coo In his
other purchases N the neighborhood. Last
year he bought through the same brokers
No. 2182 to 21S6 Broadway, with an l.
TO nth street, in the same block, two
story structure built originally as market,
but now used as a garage. In 1910 the
Robinson Brown Company sold TO Mr.. Coe
for Gustavus l. Lawrence the southeast
corner Of Broadway and S0th street a two
stor building, on plot 102.2X1044 feet