March 28, 1886





The   Record  and  Guide.





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offering to guarantee good interest on investment to purchasers of his
Eighty-second street houses.

A number of offices are to rent, separately or in suites, in the Duncan
BuUding, 11 I'ine street; apply at Ogden & Clark's, on the premises.

J. V. D. Wyckoff offers for sale several highly desirable plots of groimd
on Third avenue,IOne Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. West Seventy-second
street and in other locations. A fuU list of the properties, which are wor¬
thy the attention of builders and investors, will be found in our advertising
oolums.

Charles Spear, ot No. 85 West street, offers for sale a Fifth avenue house,
a lot on the northwest corner ot Madison avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street and a valuable water front at Elizabethport, N. J.,
adapted for manufactm-ing purposes and coimected vrith the Pennsylvania
and New Jersey Central Railroads.    See advertisement on p. ni.

The conveyances for the past week show a talUng off as compared vrith
the corresponding week last year both in number and amount. There is a
decrease of 21 per cent, in the former and 34 per ceut. iu the latter. As an
offset to this the mortgages are both smaller in number and amount, to
the extent of 47 and 13 per cent, respectively. For the first tune this year
the projected buUdings show a large decrease as compared with last year,
in number 20 per cent, and in amount 71 per cent. During the same week
last year quite a large number of plans were iUed, the season having com¬
menced earUer. The plans filed this year so far are ahead of last year,
though it remains to be seen whether this wUl continue. The following
are the tables:





CONVBYANCES.

18»4.
M£ir. 21 to 27, inc.

Number........................................             216

Amount involved..............................  $2,794,650

Number nominal...........................              43

Number SM and 24th Wards..................               .S8

Amount involved............................       $37,.S31

Numbernominal...........................                  7

HORTOAOES.

Number.......................................             198

Amount involved..............................  $1,641,512

Number at 5 per cent.........................               69

Amount involved..........................     $575,869

Number at less than 5 per cent..............                5

Amount involved .............................       $82,500

Number to Baaks, Trust and Ins. Cos.........              48

Amount involved.........................      $699,300

PROJECTED    BmLBINGS.

1884.
Mar. 22W28.

No. of buildings................................            87

Estimated cost................................ $1,126,400





1885.

Mar. 20 to 26. inc.

ITS

$2,252..342

66

24

$92,885





134

$1,447,561

59

$511,035

$115,0O()

19

$439,500

18&5.
Mar. 21 to 27.
72
$656,125





Gossip of ttie Weelt.

Charles Buek & Co. have purchased from George Ehret six lots on the
northeast corner of Madison avenue and Sixty-ninth street, four on the
avenue and two on the street, for $1.80,000; brokers, L. J. & I. Phillips,
These lots were taken in trade from the estate of ex-Governor E. D. Mor¬
gan in June, 1883, at $200,0(X), Mr. Ehret trading lots on Tenth and Eleventh
avenues, at $4.50,000, subject to a mortgage of $-300,000. The four lots on
the southeast comer ot MacUson avenue and Seventieth street were sold at
auction in November, 1883, for $109,900, and the two street lots adjoining
for $40,850. Four lots on the northeast corner of Madison avenue and
Seventy-second street were purchased by Robert B. Lynd in March, 1882,
for $150,000, and the plot of four lots on the northwest comer of Madison
avenue and Sixty-ninth street, sold in March, 1881, tor $125,000.

George R. Read has sold for S. T. Meyer & Son twelve lots, eight on the
east side of New avenue extending from One Hundred and Fourth street to
One Himdred and Fifth street, and forty feet front on both streets adjoining
the avenue lots, for $.55,000, to the Protestant Half Orphan Asylum. The
money for the purchase was donated by a wealthy lady.

E. H. Ludlow & Co. have sold the four-story browu stone dwelling, No.
130 Lexington avenue, 16.8x81, for $15,000, and the five-story brown stone
dweUmg, No. 27 West Thirty-first street, 16.8x98.9, for $25,.500.

Wm. Lalor has sold for Charles Macdonald the five-story stone front dweU¬
mg, No. 11 East Seventy-second street, 20xl00xl0'3.3, for $85,000, to Charles
Johnson, ot No. 287 Ninth avenue. It is said that the interior finish of this
house is of the finest quality.

W. P. Seymour lias sold for R. A. McCurdy the tour-story stone front
dwelUng, No. 63 West Fifty-sixth street, 22x100.5, for about $50,000 to
Dr. J. L. Smith.

W. P. Seymour has sold for C. W. Luyster and J. R. Smith the four-
story stone front dwelling. No. 447 West Seventy-second street, 2'3x60xl00,
for $43,000 to Charles S. Clarke.

The Valentine G. Hall estate has rented to Pierre E. Guei-in, dealer in
brass goods, the dweUing, No. 398 Fifth avenue, between Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh streets. West Side, with stable. No. 3 West Thirty-sixth
street, for ten years at $12,.500 a year, the lessee also to immediately expend
over $12,000 for benefit of lessor in improving buUding and converting same
into a store.    Brokers, Martin & Bro.

Isaac Buchanan has sold the first lot west of Fifth avenue, on the north
side ot Seventeenth street, and known as No. 9 West, 22x90, for $22,.500, to
Robert and Ogden Goelet, who wiU erect an office buUding thereon. Brok¬
ers, Martin & Bro. and H. H. Cammann. This lot has been owned by
Mr. Buchanan for over forty years.

Riker & Son have sold for Mr. Lutz the four-story high stoop brown stone
house. No. 41 East Fifty-seventh street, 16x82x100.5, for $42,000.

Judge Amoux has sold the four-story English basement brown stone front
dweUing, No. 40 Gramercy Park, southeast comer of Twenty-fii-st street,
20x80, tor $40,000.

J. V. D. Wyckoff has sold for S. C. Welsh three lots, 25x100 each, ou the
north side of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, '235 feet west of Fifth
avenue, to Janies Connor and Bradhurst D. Bradley, for $45,000, The
increasing demand for good busiuess property apd flats ou this street is
evidently greatly gphancing the value ot property on that cross-town
thorougjifare.   The Sfipie brpker has sold ft. plpt ^t l^^yswater, Ffir Rpckfi-,





way, 100x148, for $5,500; the three-story and basement brown stone house.
No. 235 East Fifty-second sti-eet, '30x.50xl00, to Solomon Marx for $14,000,
and fifty lots on the west side, for $250,000, the particulars of which have
not yet transpired.

Richard Deeves has sold the new four-story high stoop private dwelling.
No. 366 West Eighty-thu-d street, 18x52x103.3, to James W. Piatt, for
$36,.500.

Edward Michaehs has sold for S. Cohn the flve-story store. No. 281 Grand
street, 35x135, tor $117,500 to S. Loeb, and for P. Kretschmer the five-story
stone frout store and tenement on the northeast corner of Second avenue
aud Seventy-first street, 25.8x75, to A. Keep for $27,500.

F. Crawford has sold three lots on the north sideof Seventieth street, com-
mencmg 100 teet west of Ninth avenue, to Oppenheimer & Metzger.

The commissioners appointed to appraise the value of a piece of land in
St Mary's Park, to be taken by the Suburban Rapid Transit Company,
have made their report. The land is in the northwest part ot the park and
comprises 1 62-100 acres. The commission awards $12,000 damages, or at the
rate of $8,000 an acre. The report is not satisfactory to the owners, whose
claims amounted to $37,000.

Mangam & Co. have sold for T. J. McKed the three-story brown stone
flat. No. 417 East One Himdred and Nineteenth sti-eet, 35x60x100.11, to
Thomas McGmty, for $10,000.

Walter W. Montague has sold the tour-story brick tenement, No. 525
West Twenty-sixth street, 30x50x100, tor $7,750, to George Punchard; the
two-and-a-halt-story brick house. No. 310 West Eighteenth street, 32x40i
100, to Samuel Hateh, for $10,000; the three-story frame, brick front
house, No. .348 West Seventeenth street, 35x40x100, for $9,600, to James I.
Barr, and the tour-story English basement dweUing, No. 473 West Twenty-
second street, 16.8x5.5x100, to Mr. Gallaway, for $10,400.

The plot of five lots on the southeast corner ot One Hundred and Fourth
street and Western Boulevard, 133.5x101.9, has been pm-chased from Mrs.
Bloom, by Martha A. wife ot Judson Lawson, for $32,000. Flats wUl be
erected on the Boulevard and private dwellings on the street, and work
will be commenced at once.

The Rhinelander estate has sold to F.J. Schnugg tour lots on the southwest
comer of Eighty-seventh street and Second avenue.

J. W. Kitson has purchased two lots on the south side of One Hundred and
Tliird street, 150 feet east of Riverside Drive, from Mrs. Waters for im¬
provement.

It is reported that WiUiam Noble has traded the seven-story brick, stone
and terra cotta apartment house, the " Orienta," situate at Nos. 153 aud 155
East Seventy-second sti-eet, to Wm. H. WeUs, tor $1.50,000. Mi-. Noble yes¬
terday denied that he had sold the buUding.

M. B. Baer & Co. have sold tor A. Chirney the four-story EngUsh base¬
ment, browu stone dwelling. No. 210 West Thirty-fourth street, 16.5%x60x
98.9, for $16,665, and for the WUcox Refinmg Co. the brick factory, Nos.
138, 130 and 132 Jane street, 66x70.5, for $31,000.

WiUiam Sperb, Jr., has purchased Henry HamUton's stable on the south
side ot Forty-sixth street, commencing '250 feet west of Sixth avenue, com¬
prising tour lots, 100x100, for $58,000.

We hear that Selig Steinhardt has sold the four lots on the southwest
comer ot Lexington avenue aud Seventy-second street, 103.3x100, to Messrs.
Breen & Nason tor improvement.

A. H. MuUer & Son have sold for J. A. Garland the tour-story stone front
dwelUng, No. 488 Lexington avenue, 16.8x40x90, for $14,000.

Mi-s. Donaldson and Mrs. Bronson have sold six lots on the north side ot
One Hundred and Nineteenth street and south side of One Hundred and
Twentieth street, commencing 135 feet west of Eighth avenue, three on each
street.

The Union Dime Savings Institution and Eugene Smith have sold the plot
on the northeast corner of Eighty-ninth street and Fourth avenue, 107.9x
100.8 on the avenue, for $40,000 to Dennis Loonie,

Mrs. C. Hartung has sold the four-story stone front flat. No. 413 East
Eighty-fourth street, 30x60x100, to Mrs. R. Moses for $14,000.

Morris Steinhardt has sold six lots on West Fifty-second and Fifty-third
streets, commencing 350 feet west of Ninth aveuue, tliree on each street, to
Messrs. Henry J. McGuekin and Walsh Bros, tor improvement

A. Guthman has sold for Stem & Metzger the three five-story brick stores
and tenements, Nos. 1332, 1324 and 1326 Third avenue, to Max Barnett for
$75,000.

James A. Frarae has sold the tour-story stone front dwelling, 20 feet wide
on the southwest corner of Seventy-ninth street and Lexington avenue to
Mr. Haaren, and has agi-eed to take in exchange as part of the considera¬
tion the tlu-ee-story stone front house, with lot 1.5.6x102.2, No. 159 East
Seventy-ninth street.

R. Westbrook Myers has sold the tour-story high stoop brown stone house.
No. 149 East Seventy-second street, lS.9x.57xl02.3, to Mi-s. Eootman, for
$22,000. Mr. Myers has purchased from Henry J. Chapm the four-
story and basement brown stone dwelling. No. 151 East Seventy-second
street, size 18.9x57x102.2.

A. McQuade has sold the four-story high stoop brick and browu stone
private residence, on the southwest coi-ner of Seventy-sixth street (No. 134)
and Lexington avenue, 17.2x62x80, to a Mr. Mehrtens, for $27,000.

Tichborne & Melrose have sold for Minnie Baker the three-story and
baseraent brown stone dweUing, No. 233 East Fifty-second street, 20.6x50x
100, to Rachel Schwartz, for $14,500.

E. Perls has sold for Mrs. H. Bathen the four-story brick dweUing, No
330 East Fourteenth street, 22.6x103.3, for $17,500 to Mrs. PhiUip HUke.

Six lots on the north side of Ninety-third street, between Ninth and Tenth
avenues, have been purchased by Jacob Hays for $4,500 each for improve¬
ment

FairchUd & De WaUtearss have sold for F. Yorau the lot on the southwest
corner of Pleasant avenue and One Himdred and Sixteenth sb-eet, 38x86,
for $6,.575, to Henry McGuire. This lot sold s^t the auction sale of the Burr
estates on Monday for $6,075.

V. K, Stevensofl Sr, pp, h^ve sold (;hp thyf e-gtt>ry high stoop browfl g^pQ