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76 RECORD AND GUIDE January 17, 1920 Present-Day Problems of Building Maintenance require expert advice and guid¬ ance. We are able to advise owners and agents of all classes of real estate with re¬ gard to State laws. City ordin¬ ances. Departmental procedure, and all executive, legislative and judicial regulations affect¬ ing real property. We act in an advisory capacity to owners of saloon and brewery build¬ ings and other classes of prop¬ erty, and can demonstrate how such holdings may be profit¬ ably converted for other uses. Correspondence is invited from those interested. CITY AND STATE SUPERVISION CO., Inc. 25 West 42d Street New York JOHN H. SCHEIER. R. A. AdTlMrr An:iilt«et to tha OomDUiT TO BROKERS We have for sale numerous APART¬ MENT HOUSES in all sections of Brook¬ lyn showing good results. Secure our Usts. BROKERS PROTECTED. We are at all times in the market for Apartment Houses. Quick decision given all offerings. Flatbush and Park Slop* aectlon preferred. BERKSHIRE REALTY CO., Inc. 44 Court St., Brooklyn Suite 711 Phone: Main 5736 IMMEDIATE POSSESSION Of 4,000 Square Feet, at 240 EAST 23d STREET BETWEEN 2D and 3D AVES. —now a private dwelling. Convertible for business purposes, at a nominal cost. BARGAIN PRICE MANNING-BERNHARD REALTY & CONSTRUCTION CO. 233 Broadway Phone: Barclay 6487 LIBERTY BONDS BOUGHT and SOLD All Issues and Denominations Bought and Sold for Cash at Stock Exchange quotations and full inter¬ est to date. Call or send by registered mail. PURDY & CO. LIBERTY BOND SPECIALISTS of 2.j,000 square feet, with frontages of 153 feet on Clitt street, 159 feet on Frankfort street and l46 feet on Jacob street. This, the bro¬ kers state, is the largest block front south of the Brooklyn Bridge held under one ownership. Fraser, Spier & Meyer were the attorneys for the estate selling the Burr Printing House plot, which in itself contained about 15,000 square feet. .... lb considered likely that the new owners will reimprove the plot when leases on the existing buildings expire. Laurence McGuire represented the sellers in the transaction and attended to the financial arangement. and altered on it in the past five years. The building was erected by Ronald H. MacDonald about eight years ago and brings in an annual rental of nearly .'^2;j.tH)0 a year. L. Rodney Berg represented the sellers. 3174 sir.'j 317G 3177 John 34 Pine St. New York Sells Teviot and Tinturn. Harry K. Savage, of Slawson & Hobbs, sold for the John Alden Realty Corpn., the property known as the Teviot and the Tinturn, at 2465 to 2471 Broadway, between 91st and 92d streets, two seven-story elevator apartments having a frontage of 101 feet on Broadway, and the south¬ erly house having a depth of 150 teet and the northerly house 100 feet. The property was held at .$4.^0,000. Estate Sells on Broadway. L. Tanenbaum, Strauss & Co. sold for Ranald H. MacDonald, as executor of the estate of Josephine MacDonald. the eleven-story base¬ ment and sub-basement building, 718-720 Broad¬ way, on a plot in size 50x137. This building was built by Mr. MacDonald in 1906, and is one of the best buildings ot its type in the district. The purchaser is a syndicate headed by F. L. Reis. Apartment Investment Purchase. Douglas L. Elliman & Co., in conjunction with M H Gaillard, sold the nine-story apartment house at 152 West 58th street, for the Marcaro Corpn.. Laurence McGuire, president, on a plot iKixKiii It has been held at $425,000, and the rents are over $50,000. The purchasers are Irving Judas and Joseph Silverson, who have bought the property for investment. Big Cloak and Suit Project. H M. Weill Company sold for William Nel¬ son 213 West 35th street, a six-story warehouse, 24.X10II; also, lor the Lindemann estate, the adjoining three tenements, 66x100, making a total plot of 90x100. The buyer is a large cloak and suit concern, which will erect a sixteen- story loft building. Plans are now being pre¬ pared. This property adjoins a contempated new sixteen-story building which is to be erected on a plot 100x88, controlled by Pennsylvania interests. Hotel Warrington Sold. Albert B. Ashforth, Inc., sold tor Herman Woog to the Holworthy Chambers Corporation, Frederick L. Lavanburg president, the Hotel Warrington, a twelve-story fireproof structure at 161 and 163 Madison avenue, with an "L" to 2S East 33d street. The avenue property meas¬ ures 49.4x100 and the 3dd street property 16.9x98.9. Complete Big Warehouse Site. M. & L. Hess, Inc.. sold for the Community West Houston Street Garage, Inc., the plot 585- .".s'.i Greenwich street, 300 West Houston street, northeast corner ot West Houston street and Greenwich street, of the dimensions 78.5x113, to the Three Ninety-five Hudson Street Cor¬ poration. This sale was for all cash and com¬ pletes the purchase by the Three Ninety-five Hudson Street Corporation ot the entire block bounded by Greenwich, Hudson, West Houston and Clarkson streets, acquired through the same broker. The buyers are afliliated with the West¬ ern Electric Co. and the New York Telephone Co., and the entire plot will be improved with an eight-story and basement building for the use and occupancy of these two corporations for ware¬ house and general offices. Improvement of the land and building will involve close to $3,000,000. Buyer for Graphic Building. I. Randolph and Everett Jacobs have sold the eight-story fireproof Graphic Building, at 80-82 4th avenue, size 50x92, to Arthur Greenbaum. The gross rental is $36,000 and the holding price was .f2.")0,000. Harry B. Cutner was the broker. Firm Plans Addition. Wm. A. White & Sons hae sold for James M. Brennan to the Powers-Weightman Rosen- garten Co. 27-31 Depeyslrr street, on a plot of approximately (;0..1x.i0.3. The property im¬ mediately adjoins the present building of the purchaser and it is their purpose to erect an addition to their building on the newly acquired site. Sale in "Street Beautiful." Lawrence Blake & Jewell sold for the Samoth Realty Co. 132 Bast 19th street, a seven-story apartment house on a plot MOxHU teet. The building has three apartments on each floor, one of the unusual features being that one of the 'apartments has a studio thirty feet wide. This block is known as the "Street Beautiful" because of the many attractive houses erected Hebrew Home Replaces Library. The old Astor Library Building, at 423 to 439 Lafayette street, near Astor place, has been purchased as a home for the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society. It is on a Bite fronting 220.1 feet and having a depth of about 100 feet. Land and building cost the society $.325,000, and it is said that $75,000 will be spent upon alterations to the building. For several months the Seventy-seventh Division veterans used the building as a clubhouse, but recently moved to 27 West 25th street. The site was buoght for .f25,000 in 1848, when con¬ struction of the library was begun. John Jacob Astor left $430,000 to the city to found the library. In 1911 the books were moved to the present library, at 5th avenue and 42d street. Attorney Buys Hotel. Walter T. Stern, of the law firm of Cole¬ man, Stern & Ellenwood, purchased as an in¬ vestment the nine-story hotel, on plot 50x100, at 420 West 116th street, between Amsterdam and Morningside avenues. The house contains 144 rooms and 70 baths, and its sale includes the full equipment and furnture. The prop¬ erty, which has a dining room seating 150 per¬ sons, now is being operated as a hotel by the sellers, the 420 West 116th Street Corporation. The sale was negotiated by Thomas J. O'Reilly on an asking price of $300,000. "Staats-Zeitung" Building Sold. Wm. -H. Whiting & Co. sold tor the "New Yorker Staats-Zeitung" to Schmoll, Fils & Co., leather and hide merchants, its property on the northeast corner of William and Spruce streets, a six-story fireproof buildng, known as 182 William street. The property has a frontage of 23.6 on William street, widening in the rear to 48.4. The Spruce street front is 9:1.'.!. The late Herman Ridder acquired this parcel in 1907 and extensively remodeled the building to accommodate the needs of the "Staats-Zeitung," which shortly prior to that time had disposed of its old home, immediately north of the Brooklyn Bridge, to the city as part of the site of the new Municipal Building. The building is to be remodeled into an office structure, after which the new owners will occupy several floors as their executive offices and the remaining space wil be offered for rent. Wm. H. Whiting & Co. have been appointed agents for the property. Builders Buy in Lexington Avenue. Pease & Elliman sold for the estate of James McCabe, also Henry and Simon McCabe, the six four-story dwellings at 943 to 954 Lexngton avenue, with a frontage ot 100.5 feet in the avenue and 72.6 feet in 69th street, to James C. McGuire Co., builders, which has no imme¬ diate plans for its improvement. Plan Marble Hill Homes. A. N. Gitterman has sold for the Cathedral Parkway Co. thirty lots at the corner of West 225th street and Adrian avenue, purchased some time ago from the Famous Players Film Co. after the enactment of the zoning law pro¬ hibited the carrying out of their studio plans on Marble Hill. The new owner is the Marble Hill Development Corporation, which has had plans prepared for the improvement of the site with twenty-eight semi-detached six-room stucco houses, which with a garage placed on a 25x100 foot lot will be sold for $10,000. The entire plot is assessed for tax purposes at $112,500, a trifle under $4,000 a lot, and was held at $120,000. $900,000 Block for Bing & Bing. The two-sotry taxpayers, comprising the block front on the east side of Broadway, between S2(l and 83d streets, one of the few available sites for reimprovement in this section, have been sold to Bing & Bing by the Franklin Build¬ ing Co.. Lewis Cass Ledyard president, which had been holding the property at .^900,000. F. A. Wyckoff, of the Wood-Dolson Co., nego¬ tiated the sale, which was for cash. The prop¬ erty comprises about twelve lots and fronts 2(Ht feet on Broadway and 142 feet on each street. The leases all expire next May. The site was assembled by the late N. A. Higgins and has not been sold since 1S71. The opposite northeast corner of Broadway and 83d street was purchased by Marcus Loew recently for a theatre. South of 59th Street. Manhattan. BRIDGE ST.—William Pierre Jocklln, of .jocklin & De Florez, resold 31 Bridge st, a 3-sty building. 19.10x77. held in the name ot the Connelly Investing Corpn. CLIFF ST.—Charles F, Noyes Co. resold for Frederick Brown to the Hoffman La Roche Chemical Works, the ."i-sty loft, containing ■".n (I 0 square feet of space, at 17 and 21 Cliff