New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-16
Rogers Peet Company Gets
Control of Fifth Ave
nue. Corner Site.
LANGDON COMPANY
ENLARGES HOLDINGS
Resale of Plot in BronX-PaSSing
of Old Church in Green
witch Village.

Horace :. Ely e. Co have sold for Frank
V and ]. n. Burton to the Oceanic In
Vesting Company "a. Z. Thore George
l.. Nichols and Albert G. Milbank, d.
rectorsl No. 40 Fifth avenue, at the
northeast corner of 4st street, In turn
the same brokers have arranged lease
Of the property for the Oceanic company
TO the Rogers Peet Company for long
term Of years.
This transaction was made possible
through the courtesy Of John Hoge OF
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. owner of the premises
No. Isl TO ass Fifth avenue, who volun-
tarily released a right of way easement
which he had over the corner lot
This now places under the control Of
the Rogers Peet Company a plot front
ing about 70 feet on Fifth avenue. at the
northeast corner Of 4lst street. extending
back on Ast street about l66 feet and
through the block to 42d street, with a
frontage in that street of about A feet,
furnishing in all an area Of about lLOW
square feet.
II is expected that this plot will shortly
he improved with a modern freproof
structure OF about ten stories in height
The property previously acquired by the
Rogers Peet Company under ground
lease consisted of No. 4H 10 4S5 Fifth
avenue and No East 4lst street. owned
by John Hoge, and Nos. and East 4lst
street and Nos Il and 10 East 42d street
owned by |. s. and NJ. S. Korn.
William Cruikshank's Sons have sold
for Charles A. 4. During No. 123 West
Ast street a three story dwelling house.
on lot 2o4x9s9 feet. between Broadway
and Sixth avenue. The purchaser IS the
Woodbury. G. Langdon Company, which
now owns No. 1l9 10 127 West 4lst street,
extending through the block TO No. 1l6 TO
124 West 42d street, having frontage Of
- feet in 4od street and s. feet In 4lst
street-one Of the largest plots under one
ownership in the 42d street block between
Broadway and Sixth avenue.
Shaw & Co. have sold for Anthony
Schwoerer the plot Of lots on the north
side OF IS7th street. 225 feet east Of the
junction of Third and Lincoln avenues,
75xlo0 feet 1t is understood that large
freproof storage warehouse is TO be
erected on the property. This is the sec
ond time Shaw & Co have sold this plot,
having sold 1t for James Pringle. Of the
Hygeia Ice Company. in July Of this year.
The old Charles Street United Presby-
terrain Church. q landmark in the old
Greenwich Village section, at Nos 80 and
a Charles street. has been sold. 1t was
erected about seventy years ago The
property, which measures 6Jx95 feet, has
been purchased by a client Of William II.
Matthews & Co.. who plans 10 improve
the site. The church will either CONSOLE
date with another church in the old
Greenwich section or else select new
location farther uptown.
Paul A. McGolrick has sold for Joseph
e. Peck No $50 East 18th street. five
story tenement house, on, lot 25xl0011 feet
10 Mrs. Montese.
The Charles F. Noyes Company has
sold for William B. Leeds the six story
loft building at No. ia 10 1ls West 18th
street. on a plot 75xs2 feet. The building
is fully rented, bringing in an annual
rental of $4,000.
Willis NJ Follmer is the buyer OF the
dwelling house No 256 West 93d street,
sold recently by Slawson & Hobbs for
Mrs. Nellie d. Marshall. Mr.. Follmer at
present resides at No. pa Riverside Drive.
Edward Mitchell has sold the three
story dwelling house No. % West sith
street, on lot 16x10oS between Central
Park West and Columbus avenue. The
property had not changed hands In fifteen