The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
REAL ESTATE NEWS,
NOTES AND GOSSIP
Burst of Activity i'm Dwelling
Market Offsets Dulness Of
General Trading.

building sale had been reported, and mad
II not been for a slight burst Of activity
in the dwelling field the market would
have sunk into a state. OF temporary
feebleness bordering on coma.
Thus again the demand for dwellings
saved the day as It has on many &C.
easions since the renting laws bore down
heavily on speculative operations. For
the past six OF seven months the dwell
ing market has fluotuated from one ex-
treme of activity to the other, but on the
whole 1t has maintained an average of
heavy dealing and It has usually man
aged to save the day by asserting its
greatest strength when other trading
was negligible.
In the Dwelling Market.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury has purchased
the dwelling at 13 Sutton place. a three
story residence, 16.Sx100, to which Miss
Marbury expects to make extensive al
terations. This is one OF the few re-
manning houses OF the group Of eighteen
which surround the private garden
known as Sutton Square, overlooking
The East River at Fifty-seventh street
Brown Wheelock Company, Inc, sold
Tor Madeleine 3. Comstock four story
dwelling 2ox1OO, at SO West Seventy
ilfth street to Edward V. ". Keen. The
purchaser was represented by Edward
r yelling and Alfred Coburn.
Pease & Gilman sold to Mary Strange
the five story 90 foot dwelling at $50
West Seventy-fifth street. Ella A.
Gregg was the owner of record of this
property.
The three story dwelling. 19x1OO.5,
at 143 East Fifty-sixth street, owned by
Sidney S. Breese and others, as trustees.
is to be taken over by the LAB East
Fifty-slxth Street Corporation, having
for directors w. II. Gardner, l.. T.. Nc
Burney and b. Underwood.
Joseph Sweeny resold for the John H.
Pierce Realty and Holding Company,
John H. Pierce president, 1912 West
1920 street, two three story dwellings.
S0x100. to Richard II. Weekes, who will
convert them into hotel for negroes.
The John II. Pierce Realty and Holding
Company also resold 14S West 1920
street, a three story dwelling 15x100, to
Harry Harris. Mr.. Pierce sold his
former residence at So West 134th street,
three story dwelling, 16.Sx100, to
James Payne. He also sold in conjunc-
ton with Porter & Co. for the estate of
Mary Cooper 223 West 130th street, q
three story dwelling, s5.9x10o to Eugene
Steadman.
Manuel Diamond bought from the
Lawyers Mortgage Company the three
story dwelling. 20x100.11, at 10 West
120th street.
Geronimo katzenmayer sold to Flor
ence Mertzel the three story dwelling at
1870 Lexington avenue, 16.7xSS.3,, near
Ninety-first street
Addison s. Pratt sold 149 West
Eightieth street, a four story dwelling,
203x102.2. near Amsterdam avenue.
Tenement ana Flat Market.
The four story tenement at "a East
109th street. 17x100.11, has been sold by
the Fischer Realty Company for NJ.
kohn.
Deals Revealed fn Transfers.
Herbst Baum sold to Inez X. Cush-
man the five story flat with stores at
2iel Eighth avenue. 2ox9o, near 18th
street.
George W. Maull sold to the A. C. c.
Realty Company tho two four story
houses at 122-1A East Fifty-first street,
e0x100.5. adjoining the new st. Bartholo-
news Church. occupying the block
front on Park avenue from Fiftieth to
Fifty-first street.
'dA Gil N1HSti oOlQ u <AllHd Lug iSN
Second avenue, near Forty-t third street
four story tenement with store. 2oxs1
William j. Klaus sold to Mary F.
Devlin 53s West F'ifty-first street a
three story building, 25x1O05.
Anna r. King bought from Isaac
schiff the five story dwelling with ex-
tension at IS West Fifty-fifth street.
tox1oo5. The house is between Fifth
and Sixth avenues.
Cuaoyua Gala .ota
to Samuel Loewy the three story
dwelling at 4s7 West 157th street. 5cxioo,
between st. Nicholas and Amsterdam
avenues.
Philip L. James, the tenant, bought
from James Van Alst, Jr., the three
story dwelling at 1s4 East Sixty-sixth
street. 1S.6x100.5.
Little Rock Realty Company A West
Eighty-ninth street. four story dwell
ing, e0x100.s. The buying company Ia
composed of p. Bernstein, L. Il. Nelson
ard L. Lindauer
sydney Bevin sold to Mary Strange
the four story dwelling at $50 West Sew
enty-sixth street, c0xf02.2
MISCELLANEOUS LEASES.
The new building under construction
ut Il West Eifty-sixth street has been
ActStu Wy EEtNON 40 II.
Hornfeck, furrier. The property was
rented through the Brown. Wheelock
Company, Inc, for twenty-one years al
net annual rental OF $1,000.
Cushman &c Wakefield, Inc, leased
offices in the Guaranty Fifth Avenue
building to J. III. Rightmere OF Boston,
White-Goodman leased lofts as fol-
lows: In 81 West Nineteenth street to
ilberall, Reiss & Uberall: In SO Leonard
rtreet to White Paper Box Company
in 45S Broadway to J. Robinson a Co.,
and store and basement In ITO West
Twenty-seventh street to Moses NJ
Etoil
Bastne & Co.. Inc. leased the fol-
lowing floors: In 40 West Sixteenth
street to Leue Star; In Is West Twenty
fifth street to Reiff a Goldstein; in a
West Fifteenth street to Aaron Lieb-
erman, and in 1243 Lexington avenue
60 Beadon Service. Inc.
Douglas L. Gilman & Co. leased a
large furnished duplex apartment n
se3 Park avenue, corner Seventy-sev.
enth street, to Witherbee D1ack of Black
Starr e. Frost, for Robert Thorne. also
from plans apartments IN 300 Park
avenue to Richard 4. Wilson. Coppeler
Smith and Mrs. T. L. Pearce: also In
AS Madison avenue to Michael j. Nolan
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