New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Eight Ave. Corner
In Motor District
Leased for SS8OO,O 1000
Property al 56tb Street To
Be Improved With Seven
Story Office Structure;
Other Space Is Rented

The propelty>at the northeast corner
of Eighth Avenue and Fifty-sixth
Street, being sixty feet on the avenue
and ninety feet on the street, adioin-
ing the new Fisk Building, has been
leased for twenty-one years with privi-
lege of one renewal at rental of ap-
proximately $4,000 a year, making an
aggregate rental for the entire period
of more than $500 600.
The lease was made by P. T. Rother-
mel, of Philadelphia, as trustee for the
owners, to client of Joseph G. Abram.
son, who plans to erect on the site d
seven-story building at an estimated
cost of 100000. 1t will contain stores
and Offices. The lease was negotiated
by f. S. Willard & Co. and carries an
option to purchase the property, which
has been owned by the same family for
over sixty years.
Spear & Co. leased the fourth floor at
80S2 Fifth Avenue to Abraham II.
Hirsh, mems clothing, and the front
part Of second floor, to Morris Klein &
Sons; the eighth floor at 205-9 West
Nineteenth Street to the Underwriters
Map Association, Inc; space at 20-26
West Twenty Street to Harry
Burstein: third floor at 125-27 Bowery
TO Henry Mendol; third floor at 1856
Grand Street to Albert & Karl Kortum;
sixth floor at 1926 Wooster Street to
the w. & G. Hat Co., Inc; store and
basement at S0-82 Greene Street to Sig
mund Honigsstock; seventh floor at
$3.50 Waverly PlaSe TO Stockhammer.
Duross Co. leased 400 West ThirA
tecnth Street, southwest corner OF
Ninth Avenue, three-story building,
for the Rev. Joseph j. CCunneely to
John Verde and Dominicll Visco.
Frederick Fox & Co. leased loft at
42-48 East Twentieth Street to the
Perfect Boys Wash Suit Company, and
loft at 64-66 East Eleventh Street to
Frank Luftig & Son.
Cross & Brown Co. leased with
Theodore c. Young the new sixteen
story building, Is West Thirty seventh
Street, the second and third floors to
New York Chapter, an organization
supported by the combined banking in
terests of New York. Other leases by
Cross & Brown in the building are to
Louis d. Galante & Co., National Asso-
citation of Electric Contractors and
Dealers, Eastern Millinery Association,
Associated Retail Credit Men Of New
York. American RED Cross, Spencer
Lay Advertising Company, Johnston
Overseas Advertising Company, Will
liam A. Shaughnessy, Advertising
Artists, Inc; Vechten- Waring Artists
Inc; Farmers Standard Carbide Com
pany, Sports Specialties Company,
Howard Hosiery Company, Harrington
& Goodman, Lincoln Nathan, and In
ternational Cable Directory Company.
The Cross & Brown Company leased
space u the Mecca Building, 1900
Broadway, to the Active Supply Com
pany.
Frederick Fox & Co. leased a loft at
114-116 Bleecker Street to B. Bottle
and loft at 9 Washington Place to
Radin & Brodie.
a. A. Hageman leased the store at
lS West Thirty-nfnth Street to Georges
G. Cook; the second floor at 686 Sixth
Avenue to Charles E. Kiefer; the sec
ond floor at 6s2 Sixth Avenue to Jennie
H. Jones, and the fourth floor at 241
Fifth Avenue to Gustave We'll.
Albert b, Ashforth, Inc, leased
Offices in the new Liggett Building at
Madison Avenue and Forty second
Street, to Gunder, Mann & Go.
Joseph P. Day leased for the Holmes
Motor Car Corporation at Is and Is
East 136th Street service station.