New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Crimmins Holdings
Sell for $994,55O
At Auction Sale
$50 Parcels Improved and
Unimproved Realty Bring
Total Higher Than Was
Expected by the Estate

The realty holdings OF the late John
-. mins-tenements, dwellings,
business property and unimproved land
IN this borough and in The Bronx and
eueens-an accumulation of perhaps q
half century of investment, were dis
posed of yesterday in the Vesey Street
Auction Room by heirs through Joseph
I. Day, auctloneer. Close to 81 ,00O, 900.
or, TO be exact, 1894 $50. was obtained
tor the estate, which, according to Mr..
Day. consisted of $50 improved and un-
improved parcels. The total was much
more than the heirs had expected, even
though prices on some of the parcels
were below the valuations placed on
them by the city's experts for tax pur-
poses. Colonel Thomas Crimmins, L.
:. 4, engineers. said that the sale was
satisfactory from every standpoint and
that the heirs were we'll pleased with
the total obtained for the holdings of
his father by Mr.. Day.
THE concentrated method" ne said
used by Mr- Day, held the crowd for
the three borough sale and brought
hgures approximately 20 per cent in
excess of our calculations"
There were fully 1900 persons on
hand when Mr.. Day asked for bids on
the first parce, offered. tenement
property on Third Avenue in the Cos.
1t was representative group of bid
ders, the crowd including many in
vestors, spectators, builders, small
merchants and folks who saw oppor-
tunlties to invest savings at greater
return than banks are paying them for
their money. There was a sprnkling
of colored folks in the gathering, as an
entire block of lots included in the
sale was in the Harlem negro belt,
$4,000 for Third Avenue Block
All but one of the properties sched-
uled Tor sale was disposed of from the
stand OF the auctioneer. This one, the
one story building on Third Avenue IN
the block between St. Paul's Place and
last Street, IN which a moving picture
theatre and stores are located, was
boue.t for $4,000 by I. Schulman. t.
The corner of Lenox Avenue and
l4oth Street, section the character of
which has changed considerably since
MT Crimmins acquired the parcel, was
sold for $o5,000 to Paul Vine. who also
acquired the four adjoining lots on
Lenox Avenue and the two on 145th
Street for $4,000, making his purchase
$4,000
After disposing of this frontage Mr..
Day asked for bid on the remaining
nfty-two lots as one parcel David
Nogel, who held a commission from a
cNent TO buy the property. offered
$4,000 for the land But several per-
sons in the room reminded Mr.. Day
that the lots were advertised to be
sold separately and that they had
come there to bid for some of them.
Mr.. Day asked Mr.. Vogel, in view Of
the situation, if he would withdraw his
bid He consented, and the lots were
sold separately. bringing a total of
sl9s,4 400. The block is assessed at
S475,0 900,
Negro Church BUYS
1wenty-four lots in the centre Of the
block were purchased by Mr. Vogel tor
client for $4,000, The adjoining six
lots on the north side of 144th Street,
starting 100 feet west of Lenox Ave
nue., also we're taken by Mr.. Vogel on
total bid of $4,000. and the two lots
at the northeast corner Of Seventh
Avenue and 144th Street for $4,000.
Charles Mahoney, acting for the Day
Star Baptist Church, colored congre-
CATION, bought the four lots adjoining
this corner and fronting on 144th
Street for $16,S00.
The block front on the north side of
East Ninety sixth Street from Exterior