The New York herald., 1922-01-13
BUILDING FLATS TO
HOUSE $40 FAMILIES
Houses on Drive Will Have
174 Suites and West Side
Group Will Contain 1876.

Work has been started on an apart
hent house operation which will house
a74 families on the west side of River
kide Drive. 500 feet north of 15sth
street. The house will contain recrea-
Gon center and playground and tennis
eourts in the rear and a plaza with
garden and driveway in front. The site
pverlooks Audubon Park and was
Formerly the homestead of William Fos-
ter, Jr., who was associated with Jay
Gould and Russell Sage in the construc-
tion of the Ninth avenue elevated road.
The building company is composed of
Morris White, business man, and Henry
Friedman, who has built more than one
hundred apartment houses in this city
In the last few years.
Charles Griffith and Eugene Moses &
Co. have secured for the builders three
ten year mortgages aggregating $780,
600 from the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company. The transaction involves
about 81 500, 900, and the houses are being
built as an investment The developers
announce that they will not be offered
for sale.
city College Club Leases Home.
The City College Club has leased the
1lNG story mousse DIT 40 East Tlllicth
street from Mrs. H. h. S. Williams.
The club proposes to use this property
for it's headquarters. Seaman &c Prem
dergast were the brokers.
VIII Build Midtown Loft.
The plot at 151-153 West Twenty
eighth street which was recently re-
ported as figuring in a leasing deal
was rented for Franklin l.. Gross to the
Mid Boro Construction Company. The
contract for a nine story loft building,
which is to be erected on the site. has
been awarded to the Magoba Construc-
tion Company. NJ. Rosenthal Company
were the brokers.
Deals Revealed In Transfers.
The A. L. G.. Realty Corporation sold
90 the Ramid Realty Corporation the
seven story building with stores,
19.5x50. at 159 Broome street, the south
west corner of Attorney street.
Anna l.. Fink sold to Catherine I. Q.
Hanlon the four story dwelling, 25x9s.s.
at 327 West Twenty-eighth street
A. T. Realty Company sold to Aldine
Hanger los West Seventy-eighth street,
a four story dwelling, 25x99.7x irregular.
Two Flats VIII Cost $1.2OO.OOO.
C;ronenberg G. Leuchtag, architects.
ere preparing plans for two six story
elevator apartments with stores, 100sx
15o. for the block front on the west
side of Amsterdam avenue between
Ninety-second and Ninety-third streets,
for the Stuvvesant Realty Co.. Henry A.
Blumenthal secretary. The houses will
have suites of from three to six roms
with twelve suites on a. floor. Eacn
house will accommodate siXty-eignt
will hQ finished In
tapestry brick and limestone. and the
total cost will be about $1,2O0,0oO.
Charles u. sands sold to the Multiplex
Garag ges the vacant lot, 25x99.ll, on the
south side of West 146th street, 100 feet
west Cf Lenox avenue.
Herbert Noble. tenant of the four
story dwelling, 20x100.5, at 40 West
Fifty-eighth street. purchased that prop
erty together with the adjoining ana
similar dwelling. 17x100.5, at 172.
Blanche ID. Bright, the seller, received
sSS0o0 for the property.
James L. Van SAINT purchased 20
West 129th street. three story dwell
ing 16.SX99.11.
Elizabeth L. Hughes sold to Abraham
Hillman the five story dwelling. 1Sx1O2.2.
at 1O3 West Seventy-sixth street.
The five story dwelling. 20.2x9l.ix
irregular. at 81 Riverside Drive, has
been boueht by Solomon l.. Pakas from
Gertrude l'aunce.
Isabel MacSin sold TO Fl. A. and l.. j
Booker o5l West l32d street. three
story dwelling, 20X99.11.
Evelyn 1Iarquard Wellington sold to
Louis Raphael a five story fiat. 1S9x
100.i1, at 129 West l03d street.
rh. 107th Street Realty Company sold
10 Grace Corcoran a five story house.
2o.6xIG0.1l. AZ 322 West 107th street.
trank Sullivan sold for a client of
George w. Mercer & Son a five story
tenement. 25xi00. at iS2 West Fifty
sta,.r .,..s. l..II con mn