The New York herald., 1921-01-12
!. |. CITY BLOCK FOR
Big HOME COLONY
lpartments, Masonic Hall and
Theatre to Result From
$3,000,000 Lease.

Sol Bloom announced yesterday that
e has leased from George Ehret the
lock bounded by Steinway avenue.
Broadway and Eleventh avenue, in As
oria, for sixty-three years at an aggre-
ate rental Of s3,Oo0.0 .0u1, and that he
as plans re improve the site with sew
raj apar;> ent houses on Eleventh ave-
hue, a motion picture theatre and Masonic
ball at the southeast corner of SteinwaJ
tvenue and Broadway and with stores
a Steinway> avenue. Mr.. Bloom said
yesterday that he plans ultimately to
erect enough apartment houses to pro-
Fide at least six hundred suites.
The Ehret block, for many years
known as the Astoria Gardens. was oc-
cupied by cafe, dance hall and pa
vilion. 1t fronts 1900 feet on Stein
kvay avenue and 200 feet on Broadway,
Extending through to Eleventh avenue.
Resale of Marble Hill Flats.
Benenson Realty Company resold to
Dora Schwenk and Pauline Frank the
three five story apartment houses at l5l
. to l61 West 22Sth street. northwest cor
ner of Marble Hill avenue. on plot
fronting 125 feet on 22sth street and
| sos feet on Marble Hill avenue. The
structures were held at $4,000 and re-
turn an annual rental of approximately !
$4,000. They were bought a few months
ago by the sellers from the Canal Sc
curities Company.
other Deals I'm Manhattan.
Charles F. Noyes Company sold to
Norman S. Riesenfeld the five story loft |
and office building at 92 Front street, |
|235x90. The property adjoins the corr
|ner of Gouverneur lane and Front street |
land is in the heart of the coffee dis
|trict. The building was rebuilt few |
|years ago.
William Cruikshanks Sons sold through |
1.-THE Guaranty Trust Company for Georgi-
fanna Talbot 394 Water street, three
story building. 2o.6x5e. adjoining the |
corner of Catherine slip, to Samuel Kill
patrick, who will make alterations.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of st. |
Matthew has sold the four story build
ling. 15.11xS0.9, at the northwest corner |
|of Bleecker and Barrow streets. to |
Joseph Giraldi for $4,000. The broker
was Peter Biege.
Linseed OIL Co. Buys Waterfront.
The purchaser Of the winterburn
water front on the west side of the Hud-
son at Edgewater. N. j.. is the Archer
Daniels Linseed Company of Mime
apolis. MINI. This company is one of |
the largest producers of linseed oil In |
the country. now owning and operating |
large plants at Minneapolis. Toledo and |
Buffalo. The property purchased is one |
of the last available water frontages |
on the west side of the Hudson River |
within free lighterage limits and was
recently sold by the Harrison s. Colburn
Company.
Plans $2,OOO,OOO Power station.
The United Electric Light and Power
Company filed plans yesterday for the
S2.000,000 service station which II Will /
build at the southeast corner of 134th |
street and Locust avenue, The Bronx.
The building will be eight stories high,
of brick and terra Gotta and will cover
plot 105x210s1s feet. Thomas e. Murry
is the architect.
In the Dwelling Market.
Douglas Gibbons & Co sold the FIVE |
story dwelling at 126 East Eightieth /
street, 1S.4x60x102.2. for Morton l..
Fearey to John A. Hoagland.
Two Big Leases I'm Hoboken.
c. Alfred Burhorn Company leased 70
Hummel and Robinson. dealers in chem
icals and dyes, the building. 100x100, |
at the southeast corner OF Eighth and
Monroe streets Hoboken. The lessees
will use the building for warehouse pur-
poses. The same brokers also leased to
A. Il. Gilroy a large irregular plot OF |
land on the border line Of Weehawken
and Hoboken. adjoining the Erie Rail-
road Mr. Gilroy is in the steel business
and has erected a building on the prem
ises with an overhead crane which will
load and unload steel from the railroad
cars.
Deals Revealed I'm Transfers.
Holzwasser & Co, who own 1t21-1423
Third avenue. near Eighty-hrst street.
purchased from Charles T. Harbeck and |
others the two adjoining four story
buildings at 1425-1427, 32.1x67.4.
New York Life Insurance and Trust
Company. as trustee. sold to Jacob
Dawer the four story tenement at 645
East Fifth street, 19.sxe7.
Henry Kamser sold to Simon Got
schall the FIVE story tenement at 209s
Third avenue, 30x100.
Emeline Roffs sold to Ida r. Christ
man 431 West Forty-fifth street, a five
story tenement. 25x100.
Giuseppe Castellano sold to Vincenzo
Varneval the Ave story tenement at f37
Thompson street. 24Sx100.
Louis Schoostoff sold to Wolf Levy the
nve story fiat at 90 West 1lSth street.
25x100.11.
S. L. Pakas resold to ,Isidore Bloch
he three story dwelling at 165 West
Seventy-sixth street. 20x1022.
Minturn de S. Verdi cold TO Bernard
Carlin. the tenant, tho four story dwell
ing at 40 West Ninety second street.
17x100.s.
Lawith Realty Company sold 20 Clara
u. Minnott the three story dwelling at
244 East Sixty-hrst street. 16x1Oo.5.
William Ward Jones sold for Alex
ander Il. Crane. as trustee of the Emil
ID. Spells estate, the Ave story nat at
ass West 141st street 10 Donald Hold
Ing Company. l. ID. Brokaw president.
MISCELLANEOUS LEASES.
Joseph @. Abramson leased from Ar
thur Brisbane for ten years the five
story remodeled ONCE building at 45
West Forty-sixth otrcet, near Fifth ave-