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^ust 16, 1919 nue, 455 Myrtle avenue, 385, 391 and 397 Crescent street, 1148 Union street, corner Rogers avenue ; 200 and 202 Rogers avenue, 403 Rogers avenue, corner Sterling street with garage; 602-612 Oth avenue, and six 3-story briek flats ; 174 Woodruff avenue, 4-story brick and stone flat; 900 St. Marks avenue, 4-story brick and stone flat; 100 lots in Borough Park exchangeu for eight 4-story brick store and flat buildings on the east side of 5th avenue from 4th to oth streets. The property at 339-357 Sth avenue wag traded for 316-322 Alabama avenue and 325- 331 Georgia avenue, eight 3-story brick flats. The houses at 325-331 Georgia avenue and 316- 322 Alabama avenue were then sold for cash ; as were 34-36 Broadway, two 2-story brick and frame store buildings: also the block front on the north side of Willoughby street from Gold street to Flatbush avenue Extension, 132 feet on Willoughby street^ 55 feet on Gold street and about 105 feet on Flatbush avenue Exten¬ sion; 9 Prospect Park West, corner President street, a 6-story elevator apartment; 61-67 Floyd street, four 3-story brick flats; 505-523 Throop avenue, ten 4-story brick flats occupying the block from Putnam to Jefferson avenues; 1779-93 Bedford avenue ; 124 Sterling street and 133 Lefferts avenue, the block front of two 4- story brick flats and five 3-story brick flats, a plot 100x100.2 ; the north side of 51st street, 300 west 12th avenue ; a plot 200x100.2 on the north side of 52d street, 100 west of 12th ave¬ nue; plot 300x100.2 on the south side of 52d street, 100 west 12th avenue; plot 150x100.2 south side of o4th street, 100 east llth avenue; northeast corner Neptune avenue and Coney Island avenue, running back to Coney Island Creek; 20-22 Hopkins street; 130-132 Ashland place, on the east side of StillweU avenue; 220 N, Neptune avenue, east side of StillweU avenue ; 260 N, Neptune avenue, and east side of StillweU avenue, 240 north of Neptune av. Railroad Siding Property Sold* Roman-Callman Co. sold for Henry Lockhart, Jr.. to the Van Brunt Iron Works the block front on Borden avenue. Marsh and Fox streets. Long Island City. The property is 300x300, has railroad siding facilities and adjoins the plant of the Wright Martin Aeroplane Co, It will be improved with a modern steel fabricating building. $1,000,000 Staten Island Dock* The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Co. has contracted for the purchase of all the remain¬ ing vacant water front, comprising about two acres, along the Staten Island shore of New York Bay. between Fort Wadsworth reaerva-: tion and the property acquired by New York City for port development purposes. The plant they will build there is estimated to cost from $800,000 to $1,000,000. The land was obtained from C, W. Davis. R. W. Dupuy and William Carver, after negotiations extending over a pe¬ riod of nearly two months, for a price re- Ijorted to he $150,000. The Cornell Real Estate and Auction Co. negotiated the deal. The prop¬ erty has a frontage of 289 feet in the bay and also in Bay street and New York avenue. It adjoins the quarantine station at Fort Wads¬ worth in the south. Builders Active at Jamaica. The Essanem Realty Corporation, Benjamin Marvin, president, purchased the tract of 125 lots in the Everett Park section of Jamaica, for improvement with a number of residences and high class apartments, which will be ready for occupancy by fall. Plans also are being pre¬ pared for an apartment hotel, which will cover an entire block. The exact amount paid has not been divulged, hut it is said the price runs into several hundred thousand dollars. N. A. Rosenblum, a Jamaica builder, has bought one of the blocks of the Essanem Realty Corporation purchase, and will proceed to erect at once twenty one-family dwellings. Everett Park ia bounded on the west by Kaplan avenue, on the east by Sutphin road, on the north by Hillside avenue, and on tbe south by Fulton street. Manhattan. South of 59th Street. GREENE ST,—Lebertan Corp. resold the 7- sty loft building. 25x100, at 162 Greene st, held at $70,000. through Duross Co., and the Burton Thompson Co. A five acre place on Long Island was given as part payment. GREENE ST.—Spear & Co. sold for the Bur¬ den Realty Co., Kenneth C. Newman, pres., the 6-sty loft building at 148-150 Greene st i^ Joseph Shapiro, a shirt manufacturer, for in¬ vestment. This building was recently purchased from the Bank for Savings. GREENE ST.—The Lebertan Corp. sold the 7- sty and loft building at 163 Green st, having a rental of $7,400. The property was sold subject to a 5-year mortgage of $30,000, and was held at $70,000, In part payment the seller takes a free and clear country place of five acres fronting on Long Island Sound. Duross & Co, and Burton Thompson Co. were fhe brokers, GREENE ST.—William C. Walker's Sons sold tor St, Luke'g Hospital to the Misses Allyne, of San Francisco, Cal., the 6-sty loft. 37.6x100. at 193 and 195 Greene st, Lucy H. Allyne and others own the adjoining similar building at 189 and 191, GROVE ST.—Wm. A. White & Sons sold 66 and 68 Grove st (7th av extension), 59.6x53,10y2> irregular, vacant, to Frank Alberti, who will improve with a garage. The property faces Sheridan sq. The Corn Exchange Bank re¬ cently bought the corner in the same block and is erecting a new banfc building, HOUSTON ST.—Jacob Abeles sold to Ben¬ jamin Koeningsberg the 5-sty building, on a lot 18x75, at 305 East Houston st, near Clinton st. Kopel Schifter negotiated the transaction, MADISON ST.—Jacob Finkelstein & Son sold for the Jaclun Realty Co. the commercial build¬ ing at 141 Madison st, ou lot 25x80. The buyer will occupy for his own use, PEARL ST,—Samuel and Elias Kempner bought from Teresa M. J. O'Donohue the 5-sty building, on a lot 22x100, at 259 Pearl st, GRAMERCY PARK.—Innes & Center have sold for the Murchison Realty Co. to the Rouglandes Realty Corporation, 31 Gramercy Park, a 5-sty studio apartment structure. OTH ST.—Mrs, Lucy T, Hagen sold through Pepe & Bro, and the Brown Wheelock Co. Inc., the 3-sty dwelling, 25x94, at 10 West Oth st, 15TH ST.—Pease Sc Elliman sold for Samuel Lichtman to the American Realty Co. the D-sc> 209 building, on a lot 25x100 ft., at 158 West 15th st, adjoining the southeast corner of 7th av- , 17TH ST.~Th© ll'Sty Ioft building at 17 and 19 West 17th st, bought recently by Frederick Brown, has been sold by him to Cornelius and Frederick W. Hearn. It was held for $275,r 000, according to Byrne & Bowman, who nego¬ tiated the deal. The Ioft covers a site of 53 ft wide and 93 ft deep between Sth and 6th avs. 22D ST.—Thomas J. O'Reilly resold for the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank 133 West 22d st, 4-sty business building, 21,6x98.9, re¬ cently taken over in foreclosure proceedings, 24TH ST.—Oscar D. and Herbert V. Dike, in conjunction with P, A. Finneran, sold for the Merritt Realty Corp. to a client for alteration and occupancy the 4-sty building at 145 West 24th st, on lot 25x98.9, 27TH ST.—Berlowitz & Caine sold for Isidor Cohn, 231 West 27th st, a 5-sty tenement, 24,10 x98,9, 29TH ST.—Electus T. Backus, of the Guardian Holding Co., sold to a client of M. Rosenthal & Co. the 4-sty loft building, on a lot 20x98.9^ at 114 West 29th St. 29TH ST.—George A, Bowman sold for the estate of Peter Delacy to a client for occupancy the 4-sty business building, 25x98.9, at 43 West 29th st, 35TH ST.—J. W, May Co. sold for Stephen e PBFg' w AVIRE YOUR PROPERTY NOW 4 iiffi ffi NO rACANCICSj Hg-t^i TO LET 1 m >*nmiT1 opening batteries and the substitution therefor ofsmall trans¬ formers operated from the lighting circuit are some of its advantages. The whole tone of the building is improved. A postal card or telephone re¬ quest (Stuyvesant 4980) will bring our representative to you. He will tell you how inexpensively and easily your property can be electrified. And if the investment involves a greater immediate ex¬ penditure than is convenient for you to make just now, we may perhaps be able to arrange terms, ^e UNITED ElECTRIC UGHX & POWER COMR^Nir 150 £asjt ISiJh. Sixree>±, Ke-wToirK. «%#