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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 94, no. 2429: Articles]: October 3, 1914

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550 RECORD AND GUIDE October 3, 1914 PORTER & CO. REAL ESTATE George W. Short Charles F. Porter 159 W. 125th STREET Telephone Connections J. Edgar Leaycraft & Co. Real Estate Agents, Brokers, Appraisers FORTY-SECOND STREET BUILDING 30 EAST 42d ST., S. W. Cor. Madison Avenue Renting and Collecting a Specialty _ r|:!|lORGENT»jAUJRg; Real Estate—Insurance— Mortgages Auctioneers—.\pprai9ers TeL: 1884-5-6-7 Cort. 95 Liberty Street HENRY BRADY Real Estate (RENTING TO AUCTION) Insurance 200 W. 23d STREET, Seventh Ave. Corner years ago. Other deals involved the Sonth Church property, at Park ave¬ nue and Eighty-sixth street, a costly residence on Fifth avenue and a row of flats opposite the Century Theatre. The total number of sales reported and not recorded in Manhattan this week was 18 as against 15 last week and 17 a year ago. The number of sales south of 59th street was 7 as compared with 4 last week and 5 a year ago. The sales north of 59th street aggre¬ gated 11 as compared with 11 last week and 12 a year ago. The total number of conveyances in Manhattan was 136 as against 107 last week, 18 havine stated considerations totaling $769,650. Mortgages recorded this week number 59, involving $1,187,- 663. as against 38 last week, $419,791. From the Bronx, 8 sales at private contract were recorded, as against 11 last week and 7 a year ago. The amount involved in Manhattan and Bronx auction sales this week was $369,966. compared with $324,464 last week, making a total since January 1 of $31,300,654. The figures for the corre¬ sponding week last year were $646,031, and the total from Tanuary 1, 1913, to Octol)er 4. 1913. was $41,156,827. Reported Church Sale. According to a current report, con¬ tracts are about to be signed for, the sale of the new edifice of the old South Church at the southwest corner of Park avenue and 85th street, on plot 97.2x133.4, to the Church Extension Com¬ mittee of the Presbytery of New York. If the deal goes through, it is likely that a merger of congregations will be ef¬ fected between the sellers and the First Union Presbyterian Church of Lexington avenue and 86th street. The new home of the Old South Church, which was for¬ merly situated at the southeast corner of Madison avenue and 38th street, was completed about two years ago from plans by Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, and represents an investment of about $600,000. At the offices of the^Douglas Robinson. Charles S. Brown Company, which is said to 1)0 negotiating the deal, nothing definite could be learned regard¬ ing the transaction. ICAL MAMA^EMENT OF BU5INES5 PD^ 840 BROAJi5\f^AY ^ E COR i3~- ST- WOOD TANKS Sprinkler and House Supply New work delivered on short notice and repairing done promptly. J. Schwarzwalder & Sons, Inc. ^ , lo^l TT u 1 lorh and Jefferson Sts. Tel- ioS2 ^°^°^^"- HOBOKEN. N J. L LESLIE HEATING CORPORATION Steam and Hot Water Heating Ventilation and Sprinkler Systems Tel. 4613 Bryant 130 West 46th St. X A V p C Books now open for 1915. -^-^tXJxLu^ Let -us represent you' anrl lower them. Save considerable money. Ex¬ perts of long experience. No charge unless successful. Immediate action necessary. BEEKMAN REALTY CO. Tel. 3324 Cortlandt. Park Row Building chaser is the Lenox Club, George W. Folsom, president, now situated in the village near the Curtis Hotel. The two clubs will be merged and the main dwelling, remodelled for club purposes. Shuberts Re-Purchase Flats. Lee and Jacob Shubert. represented by Eaward Margolies, have re-pur¬ chased the six five-story flats, 5-15 West 63d street, on plot 150x100.5, opposite the Century Opera House, from the 63d Street Realty Co.. James F. Meehan. The property has been held at $350,000. Mr. Meehan acquired the property last .\pril from the Shuberts in an exchange for the Cecil Spooner Theatre, which forms one of the group of community buildings which he erected at the Southern Boulevard and 161st street, in the Bronx. In the present transaction, the purchase involves only a majority of the stock in the 63d Street Co. and there will be no change of title. Jeweler Buys Westchester Estate. David Kraus, James M. Woods and Joseph P. Day sold for Earle C. Baker to John W. Charlton, a Fifth avenue jeweler, the country estate known as The Hobby, at North Salem. Westches¬ ter County. The property is located on the main highway between New York and Connecticut, and comprises 55 acres, with a 20-rooni mansion and various nutl)uildings, and was held at $80,000. In part payment the seller took 475 West 140th street, a 3-story dwelling on lot 18x99.11, opposite City College. Fifth Avenue Home Buyer. Hubert F. Parsons, secretary of the F. W. Woolworth Co., has purchased through Edward J. Hogan. from Bing & Bing, the 5-story dwelling, 1071 __Fifth avenue, on plot 30x127.8, with a 25-foot "L" to 88th street. Mr. Livingston ac- (uiired the property a few years ago from the Pennington estate for a stated consideration of^$220.000. The city at that time assessed it at $275,000. The house is on the block to the north of the site belonging to the Trask estate, for which plans were recently filed call¬ ing for its improvement \vith a 12-story apartment house. Lenox Clubs f Merge. Mrs. Adeline Greenleaf ha-s sold through the Payson McL. Merrill Co.. her property on Yokum avenue and Clififwood street, Lenox. Mass.. consist¬ ing of about 125 acres, with a dwelling and numerous outbuildings. Over 100 acres of the property are under lease to the Lenox Golf and Tennis Club, of which William D. Sloane is president, and are improved with a clubhouse, a golf course and tennis courts, - The pur- Washington Heights Block Sold. The Heslock Realty Co., William E. Wheelock, president, sold through Sharp & Co., the Bolton apartments, oc¬ cupying the block front on the west s[de of Amsterdam avenue, between 176th and 177th streets. The structvtres are six stories high, with elevators, and are on a plot fronting 200 feet on the avenue and 100 feet in each street. They are arranged for 120 families and have thirteen stores on the avenue front. They have been held.at $450,000. Heights-Long Island Trade. John T. Schramme sold through Du¬ bois & Taylor and Matthew Briggs, the five and six-story apartment house, "Le- onia," at the southeast corner of St. Nicholas avenue and West 153d street, through to and taking in the southwest corner of St. Nicholas place. The buyer is the Northport Realty Corporation, which gave in part paj^ment a 4S-acre tract at Farmingdale, L. I. Furniture Concern Buys Leasehold. W. W. & T. M. Hall have sold to the Grand Rapids Furniture Co., the lease¬ hold property. 18-20 East 50th street, on plot 56.2x100.5. The Messrs. Hall se¬ cured the property under a long lease several years ago from the owner, Helen B. Garvey. Three and five-story dwell¬ ings occupy the plot, which will be al¬ tered by the new owners of the lease into showrooms and salesrooms for their own use. Manhattan—South of 59th St. DIVISION' ST.—A. Goldman & Sons, cloak and suit manufacturers, have purchased from F. Libman. the 4-sty building, 105 Division st. FRONT ST.—Warren & Skillin h'xve resold for Ennis & Sinnott 240 Front st, a 4-sty business building, on lot 18.10x62. The sellers acquired the property together with two other uptown parcels, last May from W^oodbury Landgon, in trade for the apartment house at 1505 and 1507 St. Xicholas av. 20TH ST.—Douglas Robinson. Charles S. Urown Co. sold for Ellen J. Curran and Emily C. Rourke the 4-sty dwelling at .331 West 20th st. on lot 24.9x92. This is the first transfer of the |)roperty in 35 years. 49TH ST.—Meyer Schneider purchased through .Joseph F. Seitz the 5-sty tenement 306 East 49th St. on lot 25x100. 53D ST.—William B. May & Co. sold for Harry J. Luce, the 5-sty dwelling. 16 East 53d st, on lot 25x100.5. acquired by Mr. Luce about a year ago from Jenny K. Stafford in an ex¬ change. B. Ogden Chisholm has the house un¬ der lease, and it is reported that he is the buyer. Manhattan—North of 59th St. (i5TH ST.- Douglas L. Elliman A- Co. sold the former Dr. Henry Bosch property, at 25 East G5th st. on plot 100x25 at the northwest corner of Madison a v. The property was re¬ cently acquired by the Greenwich Savings B^nk. the present sellers, in foreclosure proceedings for .$135,000. OOTH ST.—The 4-sty dwelling. 13 West 90tb St. on lot 20x100.8. has been reported sold. The owner of record is Sellah R. Van Duzer. 154TH ST.—Mitchell A. C. Levy bought from the Fleischmann Realty & Construction Co.. through Jarob Leitner, the four 6-sty new-law bouses 218-260 West 1.54th st, on plot 150x99.11. 180TH ST.—Heil & Stern have sold for the Brandreth estate the 5-stv apartment house, .504-505 West ISOth st, on plot 37.6x100. IfiOTH ST.—Joseph Shenk bought from the Weber-Turek Building -Co. ^:he 5-sty. oO-fami!y anartment house, on plot SOxlOO. 'at 607 West 190th St. B'ROADWAY.—Elizabeth A. Daly has sold the northeast corner of Broadway and lS5th st, & plot 64x127, occupied by a cafe, which will be continued under the management of the new owner. Bronx. BECK ST.—J. Clarence Davies _soIiUifDri-K. Wolkenherg the 2-sty dwellins,-7*>1 Beck s^, on lot 25x100, ' ' . --. -.1- o