New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
American Sugar Refining
Company Takes Over
% Story Skyscraper.
PLANS FOR TALLEST
HARLEM APARTMENT
Building To Be Erected in West
123d Street - Sales An
nounced Yesterday.

Deeds were exchanged yesterday in the
law Offices Of Graves & Miles for the sale
Of the twenty-eight story West street
pu,ldins I'm West street, occupying the
b,ock front between Albany and Cedar
streets. to the American Sugar Refining
Company The transfer was made by the
West Street Improvement Company, or
which General Howard Carroll is presi-
dent
Properties in Brooklyn along the water
front were given in part payment me
! transaction involved about $4,000. The
brokers we're Thomas P. Graham and
I Frederick d. HALEY. The sale was an
/ nounced in The Tribune last November.
; The Brooklyn properties which inquired
in the deal were the block, 2OX5o feet'
bounded ny Havemeyer and briggs ave-
nues, North 10th and 18th streets; the
block. 2ooxss5 feet, bounded by South sth
and 10th streets, Kent avenue and the
East River, and large refinery properly
in Greenpolnt, fronting on NeWto"h
Creek and Commercial street.
Patrick McMorrow Is to erect nine
story apartment house in Harlem In the
near future It will replace the three four
storv dwelling houses at No. 1lS TO lZz
West 1z3d street. and will be the latest
of its type in Harlem. II is 10 be built on
a plot sOx1o0 II feet and Will be opposite
the Lenox Avenue Collegiate Reformed
CHURCH. at the northwest corner of Lenox
avenue and 12Sd street The house will
cost in the neighborhood Of s2O0O Ne
Vile g. Bagge are the architects.
Another interesting building operation
ll.arped OF Yesterday will affect a portion
| OF the Chesebrough estate property at the
! southeast corner OF Broadway and John
street. which was taken under a long
lease by Elias A. Cohen. He plans TO
| improve the site at No. TO 10 John
! street. at the easterly end OF the property,
( with a seven story structure. The opera
: ton will involve about $4,000.
II calls for building an entire new
structure at Nos and 10, which viii
I be carried over the building at No 9,
which is TO be rnsed down to the first
| floor. The store floor at No. is occu-
/ pied by the Theodore Stewart Corpora
ton, and they will not be disturbed dur
! ing the building operation. The corner
building was remodelled and is now al
most fully rented. Negotiations are said
. 10 be pending for leasing the entire base
rnents OF the buildings. comprising total
: frontage OF $50 feet, 10 prominent res
taurant concern.
Sales announced yesterday follow:
10TH srREBT-The John B. Hasiun rs
mites sold the plot 50x14O feet. on the south
aide OF 10th street. 1ls feet east OF MOTIFS
avenue The purchase is Arthur }. McSoriey
who will probably improve the site win an
apartment house -
fc0TH STREET,-Morris p Sterne he's goid
4 for Grace NJ Pruden The four story dwelllng
40 TG2 West 10th street. on lot losNIV0.ll
Zee. to "a client for occupancy.
] 12fST STREET. W. Brettell has SOLO
for Wilhelmina Etterich 10 Valintyna
lzsrarsid No 81 East 12lst street. three
story dwelling on lot 17xS0 feet Ihis IL ne
first sale Of the house in over thirty-hVo
years. - ~
asTTI STREET. Gaines E brennan Co
has sold for Mrs Gertrude O'Brien. or san
Francisco No. e3s East 18th street. a TWO
eforv stable on lot 20x9ss feet. to Jodlce
Eros proprietors Of the Madison TRANSFER
Corlpany 1T present occupying tho building;
% AVENUE Paul A. McGolrick has ooushI
from, F'rieda Tompkins. 40. 1883 and 1890 sec
ord svr-Se two four story double hatho1ses'
With stores ~ plot 5oxlVO feet.