New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
MAIN ST. LOOKING SOUTH.
w. II. CheSebrOugh BOWS
TO Public Sentiment

The building will embody the best prac-
tice and most modern methods in me-
chancs and architecture.
The stockholders OF the South Ferry
Realty Company are Edwin Thorne
the Chesebrough Building Company. the
Alliance Realty Company Oakleigh
Thorne and William II. Chesebrough.
] The new South Ferry Building will he
the fifth large modern fireproof Office
structure which the Chesebrough interests
/ have built in Battery Park, all Of which
/ have been extremely successful and the
construction of which has resulted in COM
pletely Transforming that section into
choice Office location. Assured uninter-
rupted light and view over park and har-
Dor and unusual transit facilities have
contributed to this result. The stations
OF all four elevated roads and of the OK
listing subway are in the closest proximity.
as will be those Of the two new subways
now under construction, the 3. r.. T.
Broadway line and the new IIterborough
Seventh av. line. both Of which pass the
property. The impending important de-
velopments in Brooklyn. especially along
the waterfront. and on Staten Island
should greatly increase the Battery Park
section. already established as the centre
Of shipping and export business.
The conception. development and sue
cess Of the great Whitehall Building, as
conceived and executed by W II. CHEESE
brough. added TO the citys collection one
Of the most beautiful and prominent sky
a bull tV1.v KnfNf la
any location might be considered monu-
mental. but more especially so In loca-
ton which had been hitherto regarded as
unavailable for high class business pur-
poses Mr.. Chesebrough has been a pi-
oneer not only in the Battery section, but
in many others. including 3ith St, where
I'm 1904 he bought lots closely adjacent 20
Fifth av at about sl2O,0V0 each and re-
sold them in 1900 as the site Of the James
McCreery store and the Century Office
Building: TN Fifth av. By building the
Hartman National Bank Building. at 4ith
St and Fifth av. on the old Stevens plot.
In Fourth ay. by producing the Everett
Building. and on lower Park av. the Mon
tana apartments, occupying the block
front or Park av., between I'D and SD
SITS. formerly the site OF the cid Steinway
Piano Factory in conjunction with r.
Clifford Potter and Benjamin Mordecsi,
also with them the financing OF the pi-
oneer Office building at 1O3 Park aY., at
the southwest corner Of flst 1t.
Mooyer & Msrston have sold. In con-
junction with William A. White & Sons.
III West Washington Place. a four story
dwelling, on lot 22xs7 feet: also for tho
Furbush estate 20 West Washington
Place, q four story dwelling. on lot 22xs7
feet The acquisition Of these two parcels
gives the purchasers a plot iiX97 feet. on
which they will erect six story modern
apartment.
W J. Huston e. SON have sold for the
Pinkney estate 10 an investor fourteen
lots in Harlem. Ten Of them are on
the south side OF li2d ST. 2I5 feet east Of
Lenox av. and four are on lAth St. run
ming through 70 18th St. 525 feet east
OF Lenox av The ii2d st. property con-
tsins frame buildings that have been
there since Harlem was a suburb Of the
city. The lots have frontage or 30 rect
and are gall feet deep. The other lots
have a frontage OF 30 feet on each street
and are 1870 feet deep. Wooden build
ings. which run from street 10 street
cover half the plot. Hopkins Boyd
were interested as brokers In the deal.
William C. Bergen. the Bronx builder.
who was a prominent buyer at the re-
cent auction sale OF the Hennessy estate
property. conducted by Joseph p. Day
and j. Clarence Davies, has become mo
owner Of the two highest priced lots at
that sale.
lie has Just purchased al a good adj
vance from Dr. Ransom J. Parker the
two parcels comprising the southeast cor
ner OF University and Burnside AYES.
having a frontage OF about rs feet on the
curve at that junction. with easteriy and
southeasterly lines measuring Is and So
feet, respectively. At the auction sale DR..