The New York herald., 1921-11-03
WOMEN FLOCK TO
LEVY LOT AUCTION
Notch Wits With Builders and
Spectators to Get Coveted
Vacant Land.

plotS OF land In The BrOn4 at tne ilqui-
dation auction sale of the holdings OF
Ephraim Levys Regent Realty COM
pany conducted by Bryan l. Kennedy.
Inc. auctioneers. in the Real Estate
Exchange at IA vesey street. The 9Ss
lots and one house included In the sale
brought a total of s3o1.452. Mr.. Levy
was one of the pioneers In developing
The Bronx, and the offering OF his
properties brought out number OF old
time realty operators who held sort
of reunion In the salesroom. 1t was
the large number of women buyers
present, however, that made the sale
distinctive.
Among the women buyers were Mar
garet Roberts, Mrs. Jesse II. Haley,
Margaret Lancelot. Caroline Fortzinger
Jennie II. SAKE, Janet A. Edwards. Mar
garet E'lannery. Mrs. M. Winkler. Mrs
H. w. Newman. Mrs. Josephine Odeane
Clara Flemming, Anne Sullivan. Mrs.
Amy Walsh and Virginia Andrews.
The property sold by Mr. Kennedy
consisted of twenty-seven lots on Sedg-
wick, Undercliff and Popham avenues,
University and Morris Heights sections
$50 lots on Morris Park avenue. White
Plains avenue. East 1S0th street and
adjacent streets in the Van Nest and
Unionport sections; forty-seven lots on
Morris, College and Teller avenues, be-
tween 169th and 172d streets. opposite
C,aremont Park; fifteen lots on Wood
lawn Heights, opposite Van Cortiandt
Park, 23Sth street
Tho first offering nv Mr. kennclly
comprised six lots on the east side of
Morris avenue. 90.40 feet north of East
159th street. They were sold for S2ho9
each to S. Rothans Company, general
contractors, who announced that they
would improve the property immedi-
ately with two family houses. The next
lots sold, sixteen of them. adjoining
the five story apartment house to the
north of the Rothans purchase on
Morris avenue, were bought by d.
kempner e. Son, Inc, real estate
brokers, for Mrs. Margaret Roberts,
client, for 81 800 each. 1t is Mrs. Rob-
erts's intention to erect apartment
houses on the parcels.
Two lots on East 170th street. ad-
Joining the corner of Teller avenue, sold
for $4,000 each to John Gorlach, an in-
vestor. The adjoining six lots vera sold
for $4,000 each to A. Blumenthal, a real
estate operator Margaret Flannery
bought two lots on Teller avenue, be-
tween 10th and 171st streets, for $4,000
each Mrs. Maurice Hummelfarb bought
one lot on Teller avenue for $2.O5O; (;
John Gorlach bought two lots on East
10th street for $4,000 each; Isidor
Ruser bought two lots on Teller avenue
for $l,400 each.
Eight lots on College avenue sold FOR
an average of $1,000 each, twenty-four
IAk ITnlarcIiff fof ar
of $3.50 each, two lots on Sedgwick
avenue for $1,000 each. four lots on
Popham avenue for an average OF $1,600
each. eighteen lots in the Woodlawn
Heights section sold for an average OF
s1100 each, 1856 lots in the Van Nest
and Unionport sections for an average
of S1,025 each.
Two of the largest purchasers of lots
were William Peters, builder and specu-
iator, and DAndrea Construction Com
pany. Among several hundred buyers
at the sale were. in addition to those all
ready mentioned, Willard j. Boomer
Jr.; George Burpeau, l.. M. Necker-
mann, Henry Bolgar. William Friton,
William Mas. Thomas +. Walsh, E
Collct, builder: NJ. solomon. builder; NJ.
Relchner, builder; Thomas Nelson.
Abraham Smith, r. +. Pritzlaff. Louis
NJ Greenberg. Antonio Scalone $
Cuperman and Salvatore Carmine
builder.
Peter Buys Restaurant Home.
Peter Anselmo. proprietor of Peters
Restaurant, has purchased the three
story building at les West Forty-ninth
street 20oxS0, where he has been located
for the last fifteen years. Winter & Rau
will renovate the upper floors.
other Deals I'm Manhattan.
The six story store and loft building
mt ISL Spring street has been sold by
the Lebertan Corporation, through W.
A. Carr, Jr broker. to buyer who
gave in part payment four lots on Will
iamsbridge road. corner OF st. Kay
mond's avenue, The Bronx. The build
Ing was held at 100000 and the lots AZ
sf5,000
Tho vacant plot. 1o2.2x1O0. at the
northwest corner of Broadway and 161st
street has been bought by the Arn1er
Company from the Sexto Building Cor
poration david C. Cornell. David H.
Spring and Morris Sinsle).
Y. NJ. II. a. Buys West Side Parcel
The Chiidren's Aid Society sold to
the Young Mems Hebrew Association
for $4,000 the three story building,
42.3x9S.9. at 225 and 227 West Thirty
6fth street. The property Is located
between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
Lcssees to Build on West 57th st.
The Redstone Holding Company. A.
r. Nav, A. c. Mead and II. A. Schick-
ling. directors. which recently leased 45
West Fifty-seventh street, for store
and loft operation, has procured a
twcnty-one year lease with an option of
renewal for similar term on the adj
Joining four story building at AZ West
Fifty-seventh street. 25x100, from Ed
win A. Ely and another. The terms
of the lease call for the erection of
a six story building 10 cost $4,000. the
rental for the first term being at from
$4,000 to $4,000 net. The renewal
rental is to be not less than $4,000.
CoIum bia Receivers 5th Av. Corner
Through the purchase OF lease
Columbia University trustees are again
IN control of the northwest corner of
Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street. COW
cred by the De Pima and Canessa
buildings the former 35.5x131 and the
latter 33x100.5. Columbia has paid
$3.50, 900 for the lease and buildings
held by the Somsrsworth Realty Com
pany representing the estates of Jacob
and Samuel Dreicer and Ralph l.. Shain-
wald. On the cnr-cr formerly stood
ths residences OF the late Benjamin
Altman. Clark II. Chambers. Frank ID.
Velller and j. l.. Robertson were the
rokors.