New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-30
BRONX LOTS BRING
BARGAIN PRICES
Sell for from SOS to $500,
an Average of 1857
Each.
JAMES O'NEILL Is
A BUYER AT SALE
Veteran Actor Pays $500 for
His PurchaSeS-S75,275
for 322 Parcels.

The announcement that there was
possibility TO get lot in The Bronx
as low as $50 at the Bradish Johnson
estate sale, which started in the Vesey
ST. salesroom yesterday, was more than
made good.
The sale began at II o'clock in the
morning and continued until after 6
o'clock in the evening. In that time
S22 lots were disposed of for total
Of S75,275, an average Of 1857 for each.
Lots sold for from SOS TO 500 The
remaining 25I lots composing the Of
ferinEs Will be disposed Of to-day. The
property is along Clason Point Road
and adjacent thoroughfares. The sale
was under the direction Of Joseph T.
Day and Clarence Davies. Among the
buyers was James O'NCill, the veteran
actor Of Monte CristO' fame. Acting
for the old stage favorite, his agent
purchased five lots. For the northeast
corner Of Ludlow and Noble avs. he
gave 500. lie also obtained the three
adjoining lots on Ludlow av. at 500,
$500 and S575, respectively, and the
abutting lot on Noble av. for 1925. max
ing altogether plot l00xl25 feet for
total Of $500.
A small triangular lot with a 'front.'
age Of ten feet on Underhill av. sold
for S25. Other interior parcels on this
block, bounded by Leland. Randall and
Underkill avs, some almost equalling
two lots in size. sold for from $500 to
$l75. The corner parcel at Underhill
and Randall avs. went for 5000. A
number OF lots sold for $50. Martin
Garonne, q merchant, was among the
principal buyers. He purchased in all
seventeen lots.
Messrs. Day and Davies at the close
Of the first days sale said last evening
that the prices the lots brought were
exceptional bargains. Many Of the
purchasers. they said. were residents of
The Bronx who had witnessed great in
creases in Bronx realty and had long
waited for an opportunity TO bUS at
such prices. Earlier In the day Mr..
Davies announced to the 800 persons
IN attendance that the buyers were
getting bigger bargains than he had
ever witnessed during his thirty years
experience in following Bronx and
Manhattan auction sales. He predicted
that for every $40 invested by buyers
they would be able to get $50 in five
years time.
The northwest corner Of Rosedsle
av. was knocked down 10 Frank Infor-
tenio at S625. Inside lots on Noble Gv.
averaged from $3.50 to 500, and on
Rosedale av., abutting, the prices
ranged from $3.50 to $500. James j.
Moore bought plot extending through
the block for 81 200. Other buyers in
cluded Giuseppe Moraci, Albert De
Canio, s. Unger. y. De Nigris, Frank
Reister and William Stone. Nathan b.
Leyenson paid AS for a 100foot
plot at the southeast corner OF Randall
and UnderhLl ayes. The next two lots
on Randall ay. went to Joseph Abram-
son for S275 each, and the southwest
corner Of Bolton av., 50x100 feet, was
sold 70 Alfred Meyer for $500. Joseph
Dahl obtained lot on Underhill av.,
just west Of Rosedale av., for $3.50, and
John Jelfers got a plot Of three lots
adjoining for S625. An irregular shaped
lot abutting the latter site on Bolton
av brought 1915.
Prices along the east side Of White
Plains road, from Randall av. north,
ranged from $225 TO Sl15 a lot, and
among the buyers were Jacob Bierin,
Louis Eimold, c. Butler, Faust De
Socio. s. Dimino. Harry Spooner, John
J. Sullivan and Joseph W. Herzog.
Abutting lots on Newman av. went for
from 500 10 5000.
Joseph 4. Abramson paid 1926 for the
northwest corner Of Story and Common
wealth avs, and the adjoining lots on
Story av. brought from 1918 TO 1925,
and the corner of Rosedale av. went for
S425. Two lots az the southwest corner
Of Ludlow and Commonwealth avs.
were bought by NJ. Fox for 800, and
Morris Corn obtained at $3.50 the south
east corner Of Ludlow and Rosedale avs.
On this block inside lots on Ludlow av.
ranged from $500 TO S275, on Common
wealth av. from $50 TO 1928, and on
Rosedale av. from $3.50 to $3.50.