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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





June 15, 191













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ESTABLISHED  1888
EXPERT

Real Estate Appraiser
Broker and Auctioneer

189 MONTAGUE ST.
Telephone                          BROOKLYN, N. Y.





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585  Nostrand  Ave.,  nr.   Dean St.
414   Myrtle Ave.,   nr.   CHnton   Ave.
7508  Third  Ave.,   nr.   7?th  St.





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ner of Tenth avenue and 48th street,
100.5x200.10; southeast corner of Tenth
avenue and SOth street, 200.10x276.9;
southwest corner of Eighth avenue and
46th street, 100.5x525; southwest corner
of Ninth avenue and 46th street, lOO.Sx
200; 46th street, north side, 50 feet east
of Ninth avenue, 150x163.7; northwest
corner of Broadway and 45th street,
80.7x308.11; 148 and 150 West 46th street,
885, 489, 607 and 503 Eighth avenue; 704
Third avenue; 302 West 37th street; 49th
street, beginning 575 feet west of Ninth
avenue,   38.6x87.4x139.10.

By the appointment of a court in Hol¬
land, the complaint further sets forth,
Alphonse Lambert Eugene Chevalier De
Stuers is named as curator of Hubert
De Stuers. It is admitted in the com¬
plaint that Malvina Astor, widow of
Henry Astor, is entitled to a one-third
interest in the real estate for life as a
dower. Some doubt as to whether New
York State is entitled to the transfer
tax is implied by a clause in the com¬
plaint which says that the state "may
claim" an interest in the form of an in¬
heritance  tax.





Museum   of  Art   Sells.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Robert W. DeForest, president, repre¬
sented bj^ Douglas Robinson, Charles S.
Brown & Company as agents, sold
through Pease & Elliman to Henry F.
Sinclair, president of the Sinclair Oil
and Refining Corporation, the dwelling
at 2 East 79th street, at the southeast
corner of Fifth avenue, size 32.2x100.
This house was left by will to the Met¬
ropolitan Museum of Art by the late
Isaac D. Fletcher, who erected the house
from plans by C. P. H. Gilbert, and was
occupied by Mr. Fletcher until his death.
The house is generally considered one
of the finest on t^e avenue and is of
limestone. Its interior is finished in the
finest kind of woodwork. In addition,
Mr. Fletcher gave the Museum a very
large collection of works of art. Adjoin¬
ing the house to the east is the resi¬
dence recently purchased by Joseph W.
Harriman, while to the south are the
residences of James B. Duke and Payne
Whitnej'. This property is situated on
the famous Cook block, all of the prop¬
erty between Madison and Fifth avenues,
78th and 79th streets, having been pur¬
chased by Mr. Cook and resold under
very careful restrictions to various par¬
ties, who built private residences for
their own occupancy, so that it is gen¬
erally considered one of the finest blocks
in the city.   The buyer will occupy.





Syndicate Buys Apartment House.

Walter Russell and Penrhyn Stanlaws,
representing a syndicate purchased from
the Strauss Building and Realty Com¬
pany, the seven-story apartment house
known as "Chatham Court," at the north¬
west corner of Central Park West and
Sixty-seventh street, on a plot 100x100.
The property has been held at $500,000.
Malcolm E. Smith and Rudolph C. Cul¬
ver were the brokers in the transaction.
The property is to be taken over by
the Fred T. Ley Company, which will
reconstruct the building into small
apartments, to be sold under the co¬
operative plan. The price of the fin¬
ished building is to be $807,500 and upon
completion it will be taken over and
operated by the Town House club.





Manhattan^ Brooklyn, New Jersey Deal.

An operation involving Manhattan,
Brooklyn and New Jersey properties
was consummated on Monday when
Frederick Brown, the operator, sold to
Mrs. Bessie Rieff the five-story apart¬
ment house at the northwest corner of
Convent avenue and 151st street, cov¬
ering a plot 54x84xirregular. The house
is fully tenanted and has been held at
$65,000. The buyer gave in part pay¬
ment the three-story dwelling at 657
Hancock street, Brooklyn, on a plot
18.6x100 near Reid avenue, and also
the three-story residence at 1203 Putnam
avenue, Plainfield, N. J., on a plot lOOx
150. The Convent avenue house is one
of the three occupying the entire block
front on Convent avenue between 151st
and I52d streets, bought by Mr. Brown
last   month   from  Joseph   Shenk.





Sale   of  Waterfront   Property.

A sale of waterfront property in
Greenpoint removes from the market
another parcel of New York water front
and it is understood that the site is toi
be improved with a large plant. The^
property in question fronts on Bushwick
Creek, Quay and West streets. It con¬
tains about 108,000 square feet of up¬
land and considerable land under water.
About 810 feet of the property fronts
on the water. The other dimensions are
428 feet in Quay street, 126 feet in West
street and 254 feet on the bulkhead line.
A rubber company is reported to be the
buyer, and $175,000 the price paid.





Claremont  Avenue   Apartment   Sold.

A valuable West Side apartment house
passed into new ownership on Tuesday
through the sale of the six-story "Cres-i
cent Court" at 195 Claremont avenue,
at the southwest corner of 127th street.
This property covers a plot 150.2x91, and
has been bought by William P. Sheridan,
from the Dorilton Corporation, Edwin
F. Carey, treasurer. It abuts the Bor¬
deaux apartment house at the south
corner of Riverside Drive and 127th
street. Both properties were acquired
by the Dorilton Corporation from
George Noakes three years ago, in an,
exchange involving the twelve-story
Dorilton at the northeast corner of
Broadway and 71st street. A few weeks
ago the Dorilton Corporation sold the
Bordeaux to the 549 Riverside Drive Cor¬
poration.





Manhattan Property in  Exchange.

Dr. John A. Harriss, Special Deputy
Police Commissioner, in charge of traf¬
fic affairs, has purchased from Mrs.
Helen L. Stokes the country estate
known as "Brick House," comprising
about eleven acres forming the extreme
end of Long Neck Point, Noroton, Conn.
In part payment Dr. Harriss transferred
to Mrs. Stokes the seven-story building
at 58 and 60 East 94th street, the ad¬
joining dwellings at 62 East 94th street,
and the dwelling at 88 West 103d street.
The deal involved properties valued at
about  $1,000,000





Deal   Involves   Eleven   Properties.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, acting for
the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commis¬
sion, sold to Harry Aronson, Inc., eleven
dwellings in Manhattan, the Bronx and
Brooklyn. The sale was made on an all
cash basis. The property sold includes
363, 365 and 367 West 117th street, each
on a lot 16.8x100; 512 West 149th street,
on plot 15x100; also 1674 Nelson avenue,
on plot 25x100; 2385 Walton avenue, on
plot 20x96; 923 Sedgwick avenue, 37.6:x.
85; 2669 Heath avenue, 25x100; 2767 De¬
catur avenue, 25x86, and 234 East 202d
street, 50x100, in the Bronx, and 410
4th street, 20x100, in Brooklyn. The
brokers in the deal were B. H. Weisker
and John R. and Oscar L. Foley.





First Break in Family  Ownership.

Marking the first break in a family
ownership that has extended over a
period of more than 129 years, announce¬
ment has been made by Pease & Elli¬
man of the sale of the property at 386
Water street, for the estate of Henry
A. Coster to Antonio Borelli. It is a
three-story building with stores on a lot
16.10x60, between Oliver street and
Catharine Slip. The sale closes one of
the oldest family ownerships in Man¬
hattan, the property having been in the
possession of the Coster family since
1789.





Buys   in  Coffee   District.

The five-story business building at 52
Front street, on a plot 30.6 by 80, be¬
tween Old Slip and Coenties Slip, was
sold Thursday in a cash transaction by
Henry A. Coster to the Markham Realty
Corporation. Clarence W. Eckhardt,
president. This is the first purchase of
property in this block by the Markham
Corporation, which has been buying and
selling extensively in the immediate
neighborhood within recent months.
Cammann, Voorhees & Floyd and Pease
& Elliman were the brokers in the
transaction.