New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-16
One the Old Chaplin Home
Another a Block Front
on Drive.
YORKVILLE SECTION
ROW OF HOUSES SOLD
Investor Gets Upper Broadway
Property-Cash for Building
in Pine Street.

The sales Of large plot in the LenoX
Hin section and a block front in Wash
ington HEIGHTS, both Of which VIII De
improved with apartment houses "eFc
among some interesting transactions an
nounced yesterday.
The Charm Home has sold through
Pease * Gilman to Bing & Bing the
property formerly occupied by the home
ON the north side Of 6eth St, 10 feet
east OF Lexington av.. covering a pICs
l5OxIOO feet The Colony Club helu an
option on this property Ior the ~. - 80
OF erecting a new home before seieT LIS
fits site, at the northwest corner Oh am
The plot which is one OF the largest
available Plottages in the Len .Co ,i M,
story apartment houses A row OF ndI.
houses on the Third av. frontage OF Ihe
block is owned by Waldorf Ast0r,, IL.
plot faces the Church OF 81. vincent
Harris G. Maurice Mandelbaum have
sold through the J. Romano bro%n
Company the block front on the e9aSteris
side OF Riverside Drive from l1oth ~
This plot has a frontage on the Drive
Of DIS feet. with fTOntages of l32 feet
ana 10 feet on 6Oth and ! st SITS re-
epectively. and contains over thirteen
lots. ,,.-,,o
The purchaser, the MelNIn Nol'Sr
tfou Company. has had plans prepareu
FOR TWO large six story apartment
houses 10 cover the plot. These houses
are to be OF the highest type or non
flreproof apartment houses ever erec'eu
The southerly house will contain nine
apartments on each floor and the norln-
erly house eight apartments. Each mouse
will be equipped with two passenger
elevators so placed rs TO eliminate an
long public and private halls 2 unlQGe
feature in houses covering so large an
This land is part Of the Loyal I.
Smith estate. purchased by the Mandel-
baums through the same brokers
considerable part Of which mas pcen
sold 10 builders for improvement WIN
high class elevator apartment houses.
Work is already under way on the eH-
cavauon for foundai2us. rms ol4ck, III, IL
one OF the most prominent and desirable
in the neiCaboThood. as IFS elevation OIL
about $50 feet above the hudson NteL
makes IL almost the highest point IN the
vicinity. and. due 10 the curve IN River
side Drive. which swings to the west
here. il faces south and southwest CIV
Ing i; "a most commanding outlook.
This plot was the site OF the MAYO.
Kingsland mansion. built in the carry
part Of the last century ana occupied LOT
many years 10y the Kings land ana hnapp
families when II was the centre OF the
social life Of old Washington Heights
then known as CarmanSyille. .
The transaction involves an invest
ment Of upward OF 100000;
Leon s Altmayer has sold Tor george
J. Johnson to Sanford e. Green the SIX
four story and basement houses IN the
Yorkviue section known as the Mont
gomery apartments, at 2SO 10 24o East
S6th St on plot l5OxlOz iTC S,t 700 S feet et
west OF I'd av 1t has been owned oE
MIR. Johnson since lSSb.
The property is located midway be
tween the proposed express station OF tht
Lexington av. subway at seth st ana that
OF the 2d av. elevated railroad. IL is
one II the largest parcels on that thor
ouChfare under one ownership, and ad-
ioins on the east the holdings OF the
Rhinelarder estate. I'm which is located
n branch Of the Security Bank. The lano
was held for $4,000.
. The now owners contemplate moderniz-
! inc the houses. Mr.. Atmayer has nego-
III tiated for the purchasers first mortgage
~ OF Sos 600 from the Utica Savings Bank
FOR a term Of years at AZ per cent per
Arnold Bvrne & Baumann have bought
for an investor from the AeXa nder Grant
Construction Company the southwest cor
ner OF lSlst st and Broadway, fronting
ie2 feet ON BROADWAY and i2S feet on the
street II contains about i've lots, Win
modern two story store ana ounce
building The property has been held AZ
S900OOO and the deal is reported as q
The site is part Of the old Holyrood
Church property, which consisted OF
about ten lots extending al0nE lolist 81,
and was purchased nv Adolph Lewinsohn
from the church trustees about four years
ago II was resold for him by the same
brokers TO Mr.. Grant. who improved II
and also erected on the rear OF the plo'
fronting on lSlst 81. an elevator apart
Mo" Horace S. Ely & Co, in conjunction
with the Charles +, Moves Company mas
sold. TO- all cash, l5O FROM 81; "a a c nve
ner OF Front aud Pine SITS, and covering
a plot OF % 4x73 The building was sold
FOR a Hartford client OF the Ely once.
II is rented &c one tenant At 24O per
snnum. and was held at SCI. 900, which Is
the assessed valuation the buyer ~
Other sales announced yesterday fol-
low:
Manhattan.
FIST ST. Tho Herman Arms COMPANY re-
sold Cor Loweufcld & Prayer 10 the Forty
,ir6tb street Company Henry Claman,
president 81. James, PRESBYTERIAN Nhurch
property. al 800 20 500 West 3ist ST., on plot
81 6xiOO5 The site will be improved win q
~ story apartment house plans for which
are being prepared by Gronenbcrg & Leuch-
Tag. The entire transaction involves $4,000
The Bronx.
MARMION AV.-The Frank 4. Wshlig
Company has sold the new ave story apart
ment house at the southwest corner OF Mar
mion ay and iT6th 81. The structure fronts
100 feet on the avenue and 81 feet on
IssTW sT-Eugenc J. Busher has sold for
The cedar Construction Company the i've
story nathouse i2S East 10th st. on plot
SOxiO0 feet 90 an investor 49,
Rnshcr has sold FOR Dietrich Eggers the
touthcast corner OF the Southern Boulevard
snd Barrotto ST.. four story hathouse' on
EASTERN BoULEvARD-Fred zit-
cel & sons have sold for client OF NJ
Il Fea xNe NJ xvi n