The New York herald., 1921-06-23
1ST NATIONAL GETS
NO. 6 WALL STREET
Bank Takes Over Part of Big
Site Bought by National
Surety Company.

The First National Bank has taken
title to the Wall street wing Of the old
Schermerhorn Building which was pur-
chased in 1919 by the American Surety
Company from the Astor estate. The
deciding of this end of the T shaped
building to the bank by the Surety Com
psny. whose directorate is somewhat
similar. is the consummation of an ar
rangement entered into in April 1920.
The Surety Company retained the main
part of the old building at 96 Broadway
and has improved the site with an ad-
dition 20 100 Broadway. also the Pine
street extension.
It Is reported In downtown realty
circles that the First National Bank is
preparing to put up a tall buliing on
the northeast corner of Broadway and
Wall street which will include the Wall
street annex of the old Schermerhorn
Building. fronting 296 feet on Wall
street and having depth OF rs feet.
This gives the bank a frontage of 1870
Seet on Wall street and 72.4 feet on
Broadway.
Other Business Property Sales.
wollins & Bull, operators and build
ers, have purchased the one five and
two three story buildings at the north
west corner of Church and Walker
streets from the heirs of Anna +. Cooper.
1t is reported they paid $4,000 for the
properties, which adjoin the big building
ed h., ha o
Company. They will raise the low build
ings to the height of the other one.
Pepe Brothers sold for the Metropol-
itan Temple of the City of New York
the remainder of 26 and % Morton
street fronting on Seventh avenue ex-
tension.
Henry G.. Wales sold for c. b. Rich
ard & Co. 555 and 557 West Twenty
second street, Ogden estate leasehold. to
the Thomas E. Garvey Trucking Com
pany.
The estate of Edward s. Brooks sold
the three story building at 139 East
Twenty-third street. on plot 26x9S.s, ad-
joining the northeast corner of Lexing-
ton avenue. for about $4,000.
Hospital Gets Building site.
Title to 222 East Fifteenth street has
passed to the Peoples Hospital Julian
Goldman president. This purchase was
negotiated in connection with several
other adjoining properties by Joseph p.
Day. who collected n plot on which the
Peoples Hospital will erect a new build
ing. George II. Hyde, attorney. repre-
sented the seller. Charles r. Sommer
and Herman Hoffman, attorney, repre-
sented the Peoples Hospital.
Brooklyn Market News.
Levy & Baird purchased a group of
new dwellings on the south side of Sew
enty-eighth street, between Twenty-sec-
ond and Twenty-third avenues, from the
726 Ocean Avenue Company, which took
In part payment q frontage of 200 feet
on Howard avenue, between Pitllin and
Sutter avenues. Maurice G.. Straus and
George Long were the brokers.
Harry NJ. Lewis sold for the Ocean
way Homes Corporation (Milton II. An
sorge) the block front on the south side
OF Chu ch avenue, from Ocean Parkway
TO East Fifth street, fronting 267 feet
on Church avenue. 160 feet on Ocean
Parkway and Sc feet on Fifth street
The Parkway frontage was sold to Max
Goldberg, who has filed plans for two
detached dwellings. and the rear half. in
cluding the corner of Church avenue
and East Fifth street. was sold to re-
ligious corporation for a church.
j. Lacov sold for y. Picone & Sons a
two family house with garage, 36.6x100,
on the east side of East Tenth street,
275 feet south of Avenue X, to Lizzie
Siege fer S16,500.
Louis Gold & Co. sold seven lots at
the northwest corner of Ralph avenue
and Lincoln place to a builder who will
put up two two story store buildings
and four two family houses.
J. ID. Ranck sold for Realty Sales
Company a house at 1114 East Fourth
street. corner Avenue J, to J. Heise (;
also at corner Bay Parkway and Avenue
] to f. A. Adams a vacant plot, S0x
1905. east side of East Seventh street.
240 feet north of Avenue o. to j. c.
6chulman; a dwelling. 40x100, 100
East Fourth street, to Z. Markowitz,
and for Cozy Dwellings Corporations a
dwelling at 1859 East Tenth street to
Fannie Levy.
Meister Builders. Inc, purchased from
the Retlow Holding Corporation a plot,
200x100. on Twenty-first avenue, from
Eighty-third TO Eighty-fourth street
Bensonhurst. The broker was the Ber
Kay Realty Company.
Charles Partridge leased the building
at 172 Eighth street. between Second
and Third avenues. to the Eastern
Chemical Company.
Martin Company leased to Mary De
Ford loft in 164 Atlantic avenue.
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