New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Great Crimmins Estate To ;.
Be Split Up by Auction
Heirs of Well known New Yorker, Builder and
Business Man to Dispose of His Property b,
Sale This Week; Many Corners in Offering

The realty holdings of the late John
D. Crimmins, who had the reputation
Of being q shrewd investor in real
estate, having taken no small amount
of his wealth out of it. are to
be disposed of at auction by Joseph P.
Day in the Vesey Street auction room
on Tuesday, starting at noon. The
auction will provide an opportunity
to investors and spectators to secure
income paying residential real estate
in moderate priced home sections of
the city.
The Crimmins estate sale is featured
by the large number of corner prop
critics, improved and unimproved, in
cluded in the offering. The holdings
of the estate also include a motion
picture house in The Bronx, small
East Side garage. with living quarters
and a shop upstairs; Lenox Avenue
corner hotel and cafe, a number Of
we'll located store properties. a block
square of vacant plots in the i45th
Street and Seventh Avenue section of
Harlem. four dwellings near Morning
side PARK. lad a four-story dwelling in
East Fit, seventh Street There Is
also a leasehold at the northeast cor
ner of Sixty-frst Street and Third
Avenue, consisting of three tenements
and a four-story dwelling adjoining.
The tenements to be sold. many OF
which contain stores, are ali OF
moderate value. suitable to be pur-
chased by thrifty merchants, and are
variously locates in Third Avenue, in
Manhattan and The Bronx, in East
156th Street (The Bronx and in the
Steinway, Wilson. Flushing and La
fayette avenues and the Thirteenth
Street sections of Long Island City.
Vacant Property Included
The vacant property listed to be sold
for whatever it will bring includes the
fifty eight lots comprising the block
square bounded by 144th and 145th
streets Lenox and Seventh avenues;
also the large plot at the northeast
corner of First Avenue and Ninety
sixth Street, the thrty-one lots. COM
prising the block front on the south
side of Lafayette Avenue, from Manida
TO Coster street; two corner plots at
Nelson Avenue and West l74th Street
and at Macomb's Road and Featherbed
Lane. and a 50-foot plot on the east
side of Hollywood Avenue. nor,n of
La Sale Avenue.
The late Mr.. Crimmins began buying
real estate for investment Just after
the Civil War" said Mr.. Day yesterday
as a contractor and as the leader in
inaugurating the citv's elevated railway
system and in placing underground the
telephone and telegraph wires. as also
in changing the trolley car system into
the underground cable service, he had
perhars the most remarkable opportu-
nifty of any single individual to study
and to know Intimately we'll every sec
tion of New York, the trend Of building
and population.
THAT he pinned his faith to corne,
parcels and TO properties located in the
sections of the city characterized BY
the middle classes. is evidenced by his
holdings at the time of his death
''As each and every one of the Grim
Minis properties is to be auctioned.
can safely say that no better opportu-
nifty than this ever was offered the in.
vestor. trader and merchant. the lo'
buyer and builder"