The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-02
FLAT BUILDERS BUY
HISTORIC PLOTTAGE
Will Put Up Big Apartments
ON Site of Old Alexander
and Treat Residences.

Chas. Griffith and Eugene Moses &
Co. have sold for Aimee G. Alexander
and =. B. Treat, their residences and
grounds occupying the block front on
the north side of 18TH street. extending
from St Nicholas to Edgecombe avenues.
measuring 195.9x99. 11x167.5x1O3
In 1867 Mr.. Treat purchased the
rortherly part of the tract and built a
home for himself in what was then the
country. He has lived there for fifty
four years. Mrs. Alexander purchased
the adjoining brick mansion in 1886 and
still occupies it. The purchaser, the
ramsay Realty Company, Inc, ID. Ffeid-
berg, president, will start at once to inn
prove the plot with q large six story
elevator apartment house containing
seventy-five apartments from plans by
Harold Lawrence Young.
The property is on the high ground
overlooking the Polo Grounds and the
valley of the Harlem and is a part of
the historic Maunsell estate, which in
Colonial times separated the Roger Nor
lis estate. occupied by Madame Jumel,
from the Grange, the Alexander Ham
Alton homestead.
The houses on the property sold are
among the oldest still standing In the
neighborhood and their demolition marks
the passing of the last old time resi-
slencesS 0 the Albany Post Road, now
st. Nicholas avenue. The operation in
wolves $4,000. John D. Beals repre-
scented the sellers and Philip Shapiro the
purchaser.
PheIps-StOkes Buys Dwelling.
Pease & Gilman sold for william
80 ao1,{ n thA
story seventeen foot dwelling at 12S
East Seventy-first street, between Park
and Lexington avenues, to l. M. Phelps
Stokes.
village Dwelling ResOld.
Pope & Brother have sold to client
for occupancy, the three story and
basement brick dwelling situated at %
Charlton street, 1S.9x1o0, for Charles
and Leonard Well. who bought the
house only a few days ago from Mrs.
Katherine B. Coffin.
Other Deals In Manhattan.
Solomon LazareH purchased a seven
story loft building, 41.2x100. at 1853
Greene street, adjoining the northeas st
corner Of West Houston street. from
the 15S Greene Street Company. Inc.
represented by Marks & Marks.
Porter & Co. have sold for the estate
of Mary f. Place, to client for in
vestment the four story dwelling at
1913 Lenox avenue. After the presenl
lease expires the building will be al
tered into stores and apartments
Robert Levers sold for Samuel Hol-
lander 236 West 139th street, a three
story dwelling. 20x100. to Elizabeth J..
Murdoch.
The newly organized Goler Realty
Company has purchased from the Reck-
denwald estate the four story building
at 237 West Thirty-fifth street, 21x9S.9.
and plans to alter 1t for business use.
G. J. Rosen represented the buying
company as attorney.
Deals Revealed In Transfers.
The Finnish Temperance Society Star,
Inc, which owns 1880 East 124th
street. has augmented It's holdings there
by the purchase from the Central Union
Trust Company of 1872, three story
dwelling, 21.4x100 1t now controls
plot having a frontage of "a feet.
Sophie Bley sold to Ferdinand Cibulay
O FIVE story tenement, 25x100.5, at 230
East Fifty-fourth street.
Elnita Straus sold to Gertrude S.
Wiener a six story fiat, 33.4x100.l1, at
81 East 10th street.
Lester l.. Levin sold to Harry Cru
berger a FIVE story fiat. 25x100.11, at Az
West 124th street.
Nivella Realty Corporation sold to the
Gotham Improvement Corporation a five
story tenement with stores, 25.Sx100, at
1910 Second avenue.
Sarah A Clark sold to Betty Best
three story dwelling, 1sx99.11. at 80
East 126th street.
Edward NJ. Burghard sold to Julia F.
Henes three story dwelling. 1S.2x99.11,
at IL East 131st street