New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-31
YORKVTLLE PLOT
CHANGES HANDS
Institution Said To BE
Buyer of East 18th
Street Property.
SALE OPPOSITE
SCHWAB MANSION
Bling 6 Bling Add to Their
Holdings in Park Avenue
Section.

A group Of three story dwellings,
208 TO 216 East Seventh-ninth Street,
has been bought by John Patterson
who, according to report, represents
q large institution which will erect
building on the site for its own use.
DR.. Hans Rabenstein, seller of the
premises No. 214, has bought the three
story dwelling 100 East Eighty
Street, on lot 19.2xS2 feet, as a home
for himself.
Hanna c. Romano has acquired from
lie Roy Coventry the three story dwell
ing at 256 West Seventy fourth Street,
on lot l8xS2 irregular, located sixty
nine feet east of West End Avenue.
Mrs. Romano is also the owner OF
the two abutting houses, at 200 and 292
West End Avenue, occupying a front
age of thirty-six feet. Her real estate
holdings at that point now form an 81"
around the southeast corner of West
End Avenue and Seventy-fourth Street.
The property is directly opposite the
mansion Of Charles VI. Schwab, which
occupies the entire block bounded by
West End Avenue, Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth streets and Riverside
Drive. Several groups Of dwellings
in the immediate vicinity have been
acquired for apartment operations
within the last few years.
Leon s. Altmayer has resold for L.
Simon the two three-story dwellings
known as 100 and Ill East Ninety-first
Street, which are to be altered into
American basement dwellings. The pur-
chasers are Messrs. Bing g. Bing, to
whom Mr.. Altmayer recently sold the
southwest corner of Park Avenue and
Ninety-second Street, size 1l6xl50 feet,
on which a twelve story building is
just being completed, to the rear Of the
two houses just sold.
The Nnety-frst Street dwellings
nearly abut on the apartment and were
acquired by Mr.. Simon q few weeks
ago through the same broker from Mrs.
Henrietta A. Rosenblatt and the estate
of Samuel Rosenbatt.
Frederick Brown resold the Holly
Arms, at 400 to 4l0 West 14Sth Street,
six story apartment house, occupy
ing a plot 100xl00 on the south side
Of the street, 100 feet west of st.
Nicholas Avenue.
The new owner is a woman investor,
a resident of East Orange, n. j. In
part payment she gave seventeen one.
two, three and six-family houses at
Fast Orange. They are situated in
various sections of the town, the
larger ones being located on Carnegie
Avenue, North Fifteenth and North
Eighteenth Street. C. A. Westervelt,
Of East Orange, negotiated the trans
action, and julius II. Zieser, as at
torney, represented Mr.. Brown.
The Holly Arms was acquired three
weeks ago by Mr.. Brown from the
McKeon Realty Company, controlled by
the Larkin family, which concern Sc
cured it a short time previously from
the Seamen's Savings Bank.
Daniel H. Jackson has resold through
Sussman, Gibbs & Karlin, as brokers,
the two apartment houses 900 and 9l4
Simpson ST., which he had recently
bought The houses are 75x105 feet
and are in the rear of the Hunts
Point apartments, the largest six story
elevator apartment house in The Bronx.
The property was sold to an investor
for all cash.
The new buyer will leave the prop
erty in the management of Sussman,
Gibbs & Karlin.
The quick resale of these two apart
ment houses is proof of the rapidly in
creasing demand for high type modern
apartment houses in the Hunts Point
section" says a real estate broker.
This property, built by the Similar
Realty Company on land which it had
bought from the Henry Morgenthau
Company about three years ago, was a