New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-04


Tor some years. and AL indications arc
for a strong market throughout the com
mo autumn And for the closing month
of the wear much higher brokerage ices
and more OF them, are expected 70 pe
earned.
The building achievements, 100. are
,wsv above the mark set last year ana
they will not lessen but increase III III
yortance as the year grows older
Some sales OF quality marked the trad
-,r IN Manhattan and The Bronx last
week.
In the upper West Side there was
600 trade, in which La Toura'ne' an
Apartment house, figured. BeSides' LOUIS
Reiter bought a plot OF elght lo's on inc
aoutherly side Of Maggie avenue, 100 1eet
west of Elwood street; Ennis d Slhuo'
,esold a tive story fiathouse NO 4-o Nes'
18th street; Hirshfleld & Leohon bought
from Henry Siegel the hve story nathouse
No 3l2 West nth street, and Adolph "
Henry Blocn disposed of the 1--WE story
lathouse No. IS West 9sth street.
The l46th street house was bought by
Ennis & Sinnot two months ago, ana inc
Naeele avenue plot by the Dun ktany
Company, the sellers, last June. Snch
,uick resaIes are usually made at SUD
stant,aI advance over the previous pur-
chase price.
An investor got the 9Sth street house
Ia Touraine is a modern six story ele-
vator apartment house, on plot loo.lA
rs feet, at the northwest corner OF 10th
street and Morningside Park West. It's
new owner is Albert Mollineaux. he
bought the property through S. y. Good
ale & Perry and Henry Duncan from the
Kaw Realty Company, Of which Theo-
dore Starrett is president. In part pay
nent Mr.. Molnneaux gave the residential
property at Harrison and Central ave-
uues East Orange,
Buyers were scattered IN the oasterly
sections.
II was learned IN tho week that the
new owner Of the premises Nos. loo and
los East I'D street. recently sold by
Henry D. Winans & May for Minturn
Post Collins and the Van Dyck estate, Is
the Women's University Club, OF No. 20
Madison avenue. The property has
frontage Of 33.i feet and depth Of 100
feet. On Il will be erected a home much
hsrger than the present pe Of the or
= IMITATION.
n was also learned last week tina, Alex
ander Herzog, who owns the TWO story
five family nathouscs, on plot 53XleO .eeL
at Nos 629 and 69l Park avenue, between
sth and Slst streets. will soon improve
the sta With a thirteen story structure
Accordih to the report. the new house
will be MANNED with one apartment TO
.uOr.
Moore &, Wyckon We're the brokers 81
o.c of the hlost important transactions oi
,hc week IN tic citsterlV territory north
If iad street Thay sold To- the Number
one Hundred auG Eighteen East FIFTY
.g.ntp street Company which recently
oo,opleicd - large Apartment house at
mat point. tho $ A.. Reed pIopory No.
20 to 1@s East ,Su street
The cno3cr,y involved comprses plot
,.zlGy ipst. ju-t west If Lexington ave-
nue.. auC is TO be improved in connection
with No. T., East I'd stree, originally
.couired by tAa saalty company 10 pro
tcct It's J.lh street Improvement. with a
zine story NIcpvoo' building. containing
cur apartments 81, i've. six ana seven
rooms. with. TWO baths. Oh each floor.
-. Sharul,, sold % various clients the
clowns DItTArtles. Nos Is aud is East
10Th street, TWO iom story tenement
houses, 2Cx1Co tcct each, and No IL East
. Slst street. a five story tencmtnt house,
e5xlCJ feet. No. 81 SeCond avenue, six
story tenement house. on a p4ot $1.GxlOp
Get; ALTO sold and Fesuld No. PCS East
122d street, a three story bricB dwelling
house, on u plot ANIL feet.
one Of the principal transactions IN the
midtown luft area wa the purchase by
BENJAMIN Barnett OF the four Story build
ng No. Il West 18th street, on q lot On
80 feet. The parcel is between tho Towns
end Building. az The northwest corner OF
Broadway and 18th u rcet. and the Trinity
chapel property. Il viii be improved
With a loft building. probably twelve
stories high.
Mr Barnett has been identified with
many loft and apartment house opera
tons in this city.
There were several interesting specu-
ative and investment operations in The
downtown wholesale region.
David and Harry Lippmann and Jacob
Kottek purchased from the Charles l.
Weinstein Realty Company Nos I0l and
&c Varick street, a seven story loft build
ing, on plot 43.6xSl.6 foet, completed last
year, and. now fully rented.
Carrie r. Frantz, OF Wilmington. Del,
vas reported 20 have sold No. ~ Watts
street, four story loft building, on lot
.lXS0 feet. midway between Hudson and
Varick streets, to the tenant.
4 client of =. j. Curry bought the prop
eIty 40 331 10 335 West 18th street, three
Old four story private houses, built more
than a half century ago from the VIII
coXson estate. The same buyer recently
acquired the adjoining house. No. 81
from c. A. Wingcrt
The four dwellings stand on q plot 5J.-N
~ feet.sthe full width OF the plot occu-
pied by the church fronting on 18th street
The houses sold by the WilcoxsOn es-
ate have been in the possession Of that
family for more than sixty years They
were purchased about 1850 from the orig
inal John Jacob Astor by Don Alouzo
Cushman, who. in his day, was q promi-
,le Nicoxson estate was a descendant
q Cusnpan. The Aston estate still owns
several large plots IN this and neighbor-
ms blocks of the Greenwich Village
which less than quarter Of a century
JgO was o fashionable residence district
\ feature of the week was another
,Urchase I'm the village by Harris and