June 6, 1914





RECORD AND GUTDE





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SUBURBS SHOW GREATEST BUILDING GAINS     ?





Brooklyn and Queens Projects Running Ahead of Last Year's Record
—Manhattan   Has   Active Sections    and  Noteworthy   Operations.





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TAKING the whole city into account,
the building operations projected
so far this year are only about two
million dollars less in total estimated
value than those planned during the cor¬
responding part of last year. Brooklyn
is doing over six millions' worth more,
and Queens nearly two millions' worth
more. Manhattan is four millions be¬
hind last year's record, and the Bronx
is nearly two millions behind.

But with the lessened amount of build¬
ing, the technical position of the real
estate renting market is steadily streng¬
thening, both in Manhattan and the
Bronx, especially for residential build¬
ings. The over-supply of space in office
buildings will continue for some time
to come. The supply of apartments
was well taken last year, and the market
balance in this department has not been
lost since.

From January 1 up to Memorial Dav
plans were filed in Manhattan for 221
buildings to cost about $22,450,000, which
compares with 310 buildings estimated
to cost $27,015,000, which was the record





16 West 33rd street, opposite.the Wal¬
dorf-Astoria will have a frontage of 200
feet and cost $500,000. Herman L. Mea¬
der is the architect, and excavating has
begun.

Robert W. Goelet is improving two
Manhatan sites which he owns. At the
southwest corner of 90th street and
Broadway he is building a $110,000 thea¬
tre, store and offices from plans by
Thomas W. Lamb. The firm of Isaac
A. Hopper (Inc.) is the general con¬
tractor. The building has a frontage on
Broadway of 88 feet and a depth of 162
feet. On the premises 402 and 404 Fifth
avenue, southwest corner of 37th street,
Mr. Goelet is having erected an eight-
story loft and store structure from plans
by Warren & Wetmore. The corner
store is to be occupied by Mark Cross
on a long term lease.

Twelve-Story Projects.

The list of buildings planned so far
this year contains the following named
that are to have a height of twelve
stories:

BROADWAY, 415, 12-sty brick stores, offlces
and lott, 36x126 ft; cost, $250,000; o-wners, The





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SIST STREET, 32-34 East, 12-sty brick store
and lofts, 40x92; cost, $225.000; owner. Adroit
Building Co., Inc., Joseph M. Brody, president,
38 West 32d street; architects. Rouse & Gold¬
stone, 38 West 32d street.    Plan No. 70.

38TH STREBT, 57-61 West, 12-sty brick
stores and lotts, 55x93 tt.; cost, $250,000; own¬
er, Arthur Realty Co., 11 East 26th street; arch¬
itects. Rouse St Goldstone, 38 West 32d street.
Plan   No.   169.

36TH ST, 233, 235, 237 West, 12-sty brick
store and lotts, 55x94 tt.; cost, $150,000 ; owner,
Holland Holding Co., Judson S. Todd, president,
23 Bast 73d street; architect, Frederick C,
Zobel, 35 and 37 West 39th street. Plan No.
134.

44TH STREET, 15-17 West, 12-sty brick stores
and lofts, 50x100 ft.; cost, $190,000; owner, 15
West 44th Street Co., 68 William street; archi¬
tects, Geo. Sc Edward Blum, 505 5th avenue.
Plan No. 22.

56TH STREET. 200-202 West, swc Seventh
avenue, 12-sty brick apartment hotel, 100x25 tt.;
cost, $125,000; owner, Theodore W. Meyer, 20
New street; architects, B'uchman & Fox, 30 East
42d street.    Plan No.  157.

79TH STREET, 135-139 West, 12-sty brick
apartments, 62-83 tt. ; cost, $150,000; owner,
Akron Building Co., Leo. S. Bing, president, 505
5th av; architect, Robt. T. Lyons, 505 Fifth
avenue.    Plan No. 21.

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WHERE   VINCENT   ASTOR   IS   ERECTING   A     MILLION-DOLLAR     APARTMENT     HOUSE.
The site on Broadway from 89th to 90th street, which   is  being excavated,  has  for  many years    been unoccupied.

Canal Street Building Corporation, Edwin A. couraging appearance to a builder. The
McAlpin, president, 125 East 57th st: architects, block front between 89th and 90th
Jardine. Hill & Murdock, 3 West 29th st. Plan
No. 72.





of the first five months of last year.
Some noteworthy operations are includ¬
ed in the pending projects. Five of the
buildings are to be more than twelve
stories   high.

Five Tall Ones.

.\ loft building planned for erection at
36 to 46 East 31st Street, to the order
of the Aeon Realty Company, from plans
of Summer Gerard, will be twenty stories
high, and cost $850,000. A building to
be put up at the southwest corner of
Vanderbilt avenue and 4Sth street by
the New York Central Railroad Com¬
pany will rise nineteen stories and cost
$900,000. Warren & Wetmore are the
architects. A loft building at 6 and 8
East 37th street for George C. Boldt of
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel will be six¬
teen stories and cost $300,000, according
to the estimate of the architect, Charles
H. Caldwell. A loft building of fourteen
stories is being erected at 121 to 125
West 48th street for the Alt Realty Co.
from plans by William H. Gompert.
Another sixteen-story business building
is going up on the far West Side, at
441 and 443 West 55th street for Alida
Beekman Emmet of 32 Liberty street,
from plans by Henry B. Herts.

Other buildings planned are notable in
some respect, if not for height. Vincent
Astor's  new stores and offices at 2 to





EDGECOMBE AV. s w cor of 160th st, 12-sty
brick apartment, 102x138 ft.; cost. $500.000;
owner, Albert Schwarzler, 369 East 167th street;
architects, Schwartz & Gross, 347 Fifth avenue.
Plan No. 160.

LEXINGTON AV, 311, sec 38th St. 12-sty
brick hotel and store, 24x100 ft. : cost, ,$90.000;
owner, Allerton 38th St. Co., Jas. S. Cushman,
nresident. 191 Ninth avenue ; architect, Paul C.
Hunter, 191 Ninth  avenue.    Plan No.  120.

PARK AVENUB. 993, sec 84th st, 12-sty
brick apartment, 133x91; cost. $400,0(y): owner,
Charter Construction Co.. Henry Edelmuth,
president. 119 West 40th st; architect, Robt. T.
Lyons, 119 -West 40th St.    Flan No. 150.

WEST END AVENUE, 372-378, sec 78th
street. 12-sty brick apartment, 83x57; cost,
$300,000; owner, 78th St. and -West End Av.
Realty Co., Inc.. George Backer, president. 56
West 45th street; architects. Schwartz & Gro.ss.
347 Sth av.    Plan  No. 137.

24TH STREET, 149-157 West. 12-stv brick
stores and lofts. 104x93 ft.; cost. $300,000; own¬
ers. Brolux Corporation. Louis F. Starr, presi¬
dent, .33 Midland avenue. Glen Ridge; archi¬
tect, Geo. F. Pelham. 30 Bast 42d street. Plan
No. 5.

,30TH STREET. 8-14 West, 12-sty brick loft.
100x08 ft.; cost, $125,000; owner, Runline
Realtv & Construction Co.. Maurice Runkle.
nre«iident, .507 Fifth avenue; architect. Thos.
W. Lamb, 644 Eighth avenue.    Plan No. 124.

31ST STREET. 31-37 East. 12-sty brick store
and lofts, 85x98 ; cost, $300,000: owner, 31 East
Slst Street Realty Co.. Geo. Backer, president. 51
Hamilton terrace; architects, -Wallls £ Good¬
willie.    Plan No.  116.





streets, which has been one of a long
series of vacant sites, is ringing with
the strokes of steam drills excavating
for the great apartment house which
Vincent .\stor is to erect there, at a
cost of $1,000,000. Charles A. Platt is
drawing the plans and Marc Eidlitz 'k
Son have the contract. Directly across
Broadway is Mr. Goelet's theatre pro¬
ject, and at the southwest corner of 95th
street a large site is being cleared for
a taxpayer building which Vincent Astor
is  having  erected.

Sixth avenue has two operations which
signalize the growing importance of the
districts around the 38th street and 42nd
street elevated stations. One is at the
southwest corner of the avenue and 39th
street, where a four-story building is
going up, and the other operation is at
50th street and the avenue, where an
eight-story building is rising.

East 31st street, .between Madison and
Fourth avenues, is _ the scene of three
considerable operations, one being the
twenty-story loft building for the
.•\eon Realty Company, above referred
to. In 33rd street, between Madison
and Fourth avenues, a sixteen-story
commercial building is being erected
from plans of M. E. Rountree, to cost
$425,000.