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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 95, no. 2461: Articles]: May 15, 1915

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830 RECORD AND GUIDE May 15, 1915 Wants and Offers The rate for Advertising under this heading is 15cents per Hne. nonpareil measurement, with a minimum of four lines. Copy received until 3 P. M. Friday. 12 VVest 4Uth street, on lot 25x98, to the 8 VVest 4Uin bircet Corporation, owners of liie new iweaiy-siory structure ad¬ joining^ on the cast, ine property was held at :f25u,UlKJ. The bCiier occupies part ot tile building and has taken a lease of lliree lioors. DEPUTY TAX COMMISSIONERS The Civil Service Commission has ordtred an cxaminaiion to take place soon for Deputy Tax Commissioners, permanent city positions, sala¬ ries *1800 to $3500. Appointmenis in all boroughs. Real Ksiate men having hve years' experience are eligible. SpLCial expert coaching by lax Expert of nine ytars' experience, l-unhtr par¬ ticulars call, write or phone A. J. Fancell, Civil Service Instructor, 501 tiiih Ave. C^Jud i>l.). Phone 5775 Murray Hill. YOUNG MAN, 22. 8 years' experience m the manuKtinent and collection of tene¬ ment property, knowledge of bookkeep- JiiM, typewiiting and office routine work, desires position. Box 574, Record & Guide. L.OFT TO LET, 25x95, large elevator, heal, excellent light. Telephone Murray Hill 3121. _ , BROWN. 306 E. 40th St.. New York. TU LET—riixty Wall Street, fine light private room in law office, particularly desirable for real estate or insurance broker. $30 a month, also desk room, ex- ceptionaliv private. Address S. D. JONES, 60 Wall Street. TO RENT—Five-story building, 314 Wtst 44th street, suitable for any busi¬ ness, specially in the building line; first floor, driveway and stalls; upper floors, lotts. offices and apartments; cheap rent. See agent on premises. BUILDERS OF SUBURBAN HOMES. AUveitiser, who is now developing a large tract at Kuton Heisrhts in tne heart of South Norwalk, Conn., will make an attractive proposition to responsible builder. Demand for homes by far ex¬ ceeds the supply. WALTER SCHULZE, 1170 Broadway, New York City. Tel.. Madison Square 3879. WANTED — Competent, experienced broker, with good knowledge of real es¬ tate values. Salary about $50. State pre¬ vious experience. Box 5SS. Record & Guide. WAXTEU to lease apartments. Manhat¬ tan. Bronx; also what have you for sale cheap; $5,U00-$lO,000 cash; balance mort¬ gage. Box 590, Record & Guide. BUILDERS ATTENTION. Large corner plot on Bedford Ave. and Crown Street, Brooklyn. Address Owner. Box 594, Record & Guide. WANTED—Young man (Christian) in management department real estate of¬ fice. Management experience and knowl¬ edge of bookkeeping desirable. Address, stating experience and salary. Box 592, Record & Guide. MAN, 45, desires position in real estate, collecting, renting, repairs and office work: furnish best references. D. WILL¬ IAM STOWESAND, 53 Arlington a v., Brooklyn. N Y. Telephone Franklin 2954. If you want to know who is building, and who, therefore, is in the market for building materials, read the Record and Guide. Brokers, Attention! The Realty Associates desire to co-operate with brokers in every way possible. We sell property on easy terms, paying full commissions to brokers. We have lots, flats, dwellings, and businese property in all parts of Brooklyn, making a specialty of well known Easy Housekeep¬ ing Homes in Prospect Park East, Fifty-Fourth Street and other sec¬ tions of Brooklyn. It will pay you to get in touch with us. Realty A.ssociates Capital and Surplus $5,000,000 162 REMSEN ST. BROOKLYN Telephone 6480 Main Big Queens Project The Ring-Oibson Company has pur¬ chased the Van Wicklen larm, contain¬ ing about 6UU lots, on Liberty avenue, in the South Richmond Hill section of (Jucens, lor development with two- lainny houses. The land is along the route of the Liberty avenue extension of the elevated portion of the dual sub¬ way system. Buys Tall Loft Structure. The McMorrow Engineering & Con¬ struction Company sold to a client of Paul Korn, the thirteen-story mercantile building, at 131-137 West 37th street, on plot 75 X 98.9. The building was com¬ pleted last summer. Manhattan—South of 59th St. CEDAR ST.—Euphemia S. Coffin sold the Lib¬ erty Building, a 5-sty structure, at the north corner of Cedar and West sts, to Frederick lirown, who took it in part payment for ■"Kuguy Hall" and "Eton Hall" apartments 2'o-'6b Clare¬ mont av, recently reported sold. DOWNING ST.—Kurz & Uren (Inc.) sold for the Hubener-Escher Co. the 7-sty lott building 24-:^S Downing st, on plot G0x7b, to the Benenson Realty Co., which took it in part pay¬ ment for the block Iront in the south side of Itjnth st, from Teller to Clay av. GREENE ST.—E. H. Ludlow & Co., sold for the No. (iu Cliff Street Co. to Joseph Hamblin G'.) and 71 Greene st, a 5-sty building, on plot o7.GxluO. WATER ST.—Morris Weinstein sold to M. Benevento 383 Water st, a 3-sty building, on lot :iux80. WAVERLY PL. — The Fogliasso-Clement Building Co., which recently purchased the plot 44.X1I7, at 7y-Sl Washington pl, for an 8-sty apartment house improvement is reported to have purchased a plot 44x18 in the rear of tht* abutting buildings at 118-120 Waverly pl to provide a greater depth. 17TH ST.—Annie Rubin sold 347 East 17th st, a O-sty tenement, on lot J:2xli-'. 2STH ST.—J. S. Maxwell sold for Emma J. Egan to the Nason Realty Co., Max N. Nathan¬ son, president, the 5-sty stores, on plot .^^UxHn), at 13G and 138 West 28th st, which has been held at $100,000. 31ST ST.—Harrie S. Lines sold for Mrs. Amelia S. Lansing 210 East 31st st, a 3-sty house, on lot 17x08.11. 4GTH ST.—John W. Condit is reported to have sold 352-356 West -16th st, a 5-sty apart¬ ment house, on plot 75x100.5. COUJMBUS AVE 66-ro67»STS. 90* STAND AMSTCRQAM AVt American Real Estate Company Founded 188S Owner of Harriman National Bank Build¬ ing, 44th St. and Fifth Ave. Stockton Building, 5-9 E. 31st St. Arena Building, 39-41 W. 31st St. Hendrik Hudson Apartments, Broadway, HOth Street, River¬ side Drive. Developer of A-R-E-CO dis¬ tricts, The Bronx, and Park Hill, Yonkers. On these types of properties are based its 6% Bonds, offered to investors in Coupon form for direct investment, and in Accumulative form purchasable by installments. Correspondence invited. Amrrifan Ural JEBtatr QIom^ny_ Capital and Surplus, W,247,7S9.13 527 Fifth Avenue, New York 4UT11 ST.—George W. Mercer & Son sold for the New York County National Bank, tbe two factory builaings, 440 and 442 West 4Uth st, on plot 50x100. 57TH ST.—Hall-Berwln Corporation and H. Nelson Flanagan sold for the Wilmurt Realty Co., 103 West 57th st, a 4-sty dwelling on lot lUxlOU.5, to Louis H. Chalif, who recently pur¬ chased adjoining propeity at No. 105 and now controls a frontage of 30.10 ft. Manhattan—North of 59th St. 72D ST.—Frank G. Burke. Jr.. so'd 247 West 72d st, a 4-sty dwelling, on lot 25x102.2, to Mrs. Alice C. Wiliams, who owns the aujoining house at 240 and now controls a frontage of 50 ft. The buyer gave fn part payment the 5-sty flat, 00 East 122d st. The brokers were Spear & Co. and E. H. Ludlow & Co. 74TH ST.—William B. May & Co. sold for Bertha Lewy, the 3-sty dwelling, 128 East 74th st, on lot 18.0x102.2. 82D ST.—John Seeley Ward bought from Solomon Tim, 10 East 82d st, a 4-sty dwelling, on lot 20.6x102.2. The broker was John J. Kavanagh. S2D ST.—Pease & Elliman sold for the Ess Eff Realty Co., Solon L. Frank, president, lUii- 111 East 82d st the plot 50x100, and now oc¬ cupied by a livery stable under lease to the Car¬ negie Hill Livery Co. The buyer is Edward S. Black. . 80TH ST.—The GOl West End Corporation, Albert Saxe, president, purchased from Dr. John J. Moorehead the 3-sty dwelling 301 West SlJth st, on lot 20x100.8, to protect the westerly light of the 13-sty apartment house to be erected at the northwest corner of West End av and 8!Jth St. OOTH ST.—Thomas I. McKeon sold, through Joseph P. Day the 4-sty dwelling, 67 West OOth st, on lot 18.9x108.8, to H. R. Roeder, who will alter for business. IISTH ST.—Lawyers" Mortgage Co. sold 313- 315 East 118th st, a 6-sty tenement, on plot 50x lOii. 118TH ST.—Charles R. Protze has sold 306- 308 East 118th st, a 6-sty tenement, on plot 400x100.11. i;i.5TH ST.—Speedway Realty Co., Klein & Jackson sold the 6 lots in the south side of West 1.35th st, 115 ft. east of Broadway, IGOxOO.ll, adjoining the Claremont Theatre. Tbe buyer will erect a garage. The brokers were Wm. A. White & Sons. 143D ST.—Hermine Debrovsky sold 25G West 143d st, a G-sty tenement on lot 25x1*0.11, to the Normal Construction Co., Brown & Lapin, which gave in exchange the new G-sty apart¬ ment house, at the southeast corner of Av St. John and Fox st, on plot 75x100. 148TH ST.—J. S. Maxwell resold for (Teorge F. Tighe the 5-sty apartment house 514 West 14Sth St. on plot 41.Sxlu0. IGOTH ST.—Adolph Lewisohn bought through L. J. Phillips Sl Co., from the Markey estate, the lot 25x100 in the north side of West IfiOth st, 143 ft. west of Broadway. Mr. Lewisohn owns the entire westerly Broadway block front from IGOth to 175th st, with the exception of the IGOth st corner. 170TH ST.—Mrs. Margaret Cameron is re¬ ported to have re-sold the "Bright," a G-sty apartment house, at 555 West 170th st, on plot 75x100. i80TH ST.—John M. Thompson and C. WaUer Cushier have sold for Mrs. Elizabeth C. Schnei¬ der the 5-sty apartment house GIO West l80th st, on lot 25x100. The house was built 5 years ago by John B. Berry, this being the 2d sale since its completion. The property has been held at $45,000. 187TH ST.—Isidor Crayhead sold the plot, 100 x200, in the nirth side of West 187th st. 125 ft. east of St. Nicholas av, to Joseph Reiss, who gave in exchange the 5-sty new-law flat at the southeast corner of Bryant av and 170th st. on plot 45x100. The Manhattan plot was later re¬ sold to David Zipkin, the builder. AMSTERDAM AV.—Joseph P. Day sold for Lewine & Kempner, 71 Amsterdam av, a 5-sty tenement, on plot 26.0x100. AUDUBON AV.—Value Realty Co. sold the 2- sty building at the northeast corner of Au¬ dubon av and lS3d st, on lot 25x75, to Edwin A. Castor. BROADWAY.—Valentine Diedrich sold to the Donovan estate, through Hall J. How & Co.. the lot 25x150. on the east side of Broadway, 150 ft. north of 207th st. The seller now controls a plot fronting 175 ft. on Broadway and 133 ft. In 207th St. LEXINGTON AV.—Lawyers' Mortgage Co. sold 1045 and 1047 Lexington av, two 3-sty dwellings, each on lot 17x55. WADSWORTH AV.—Ennis & Sinnot bought from the Belford Realty Co.. through McDowell Sl McMahon. the 5-sty flat. 143 Wadsworth av, on plot 37.GxlOO. The brokers report it a cash transaction, 1ST AV.—Ernest N. Adler sold for Amelia S. and Charles E. Lansing to Elias Rosenbaum 14!K) 1st av, a 4-sty tenement, on plot 25.0x05.Gx irreg. The new owner will alter it into a store building. Bronx. FOX ST.—Joseph Reich bought from Mrs. Emma Breckendorf the 5-sty apartment house 681 Fox st, on plot 40x100. FOX ST.—The J. W. Cornish Construction Co. has sold the southwest corner of Fox st and Av St John, a new 5-sty apartment house, on plot .~Oxl(X>. 181ST ST.—G. Ernst sold to Frank Eberhart, Bryant Court, a 5-sty apartment house. 35x100, at the northeast corner of 181st st and Bry¬ ant av.