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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 99, no. 2564: Articles]: May 5, 1917

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628 RECORD AND GUIDE May 5, 1917 and large plot on Hobart at, Gifford Park, to Fredericlt H. Hutaff. LARCHMONT, N. Y.—Thomas N. Hilliard has purchased through the Country Dcparimcnt of Albert B. Ashforth (Inc.) and Harold Flmt the propertv of Frank D. White on Pryer Point, Larchmont, N. Y. Tbis Is considered one of tbe finest places In Larchmont, the house having been built by days work and having nil modern improvements. The property was held at S'3.000, PLANDOME, L. I.—Pell & Tibbits sold for tbe Navahoe Realty Co. a tract of woodland near Plandome station to the E'derflelds Reser¬ vation, Inc., which is the sixth purchase re¬ cently made by the same buyers through the same brokers. RYE N. Y.—.loseph P Day sold for Clara Enz Rucker a S-sty dwelling, l.':! 0lxL'l(1.4T. at 70 Boston Post rd. Miss Rucker was represented bv Jonathan Holden, as attorney. ihe pur¬ chaser is a lawyer, who will make improve¬ ments and occupy the property as a summer residence. SCARSDALE, N. Y.—Scarsdale Estates sold to Hugh I. Young about three acres at the cor¬ ner of Cooper and Reimer rds, in the Murray Hill section. SCARSDALE, N. Y.—Fish & Marvin bave sn'd for Mrs. William H. See her property on Edgemont rd to Mrs. W. W. Nichols, of this city. The property consists ot a large plot and dwelling. YONKERS. N. Y.—The Robert E. Farley Or¬ ganization sold an attractive plot on Myrtle av, in the Nepperhan Heights section, to Mrs, Sarah A. Cranston. WHITE PLAINS.—The Robert E. Farley Or¬ ganization has sold the residence of Emerson W. ,»dams on Dupont av, in the Gedney Farms section. c LEASES. 11 Two Hotels in Lease. The Hotel LaSalle at 28 to 34 East 60th street, which Bing & Bing are com¬ pleting and the Hotel Hawthorne, at 70 West 49th street, are involved in a $2,500,000 lease. Mary E. SnifFen. pro¬ prietor of the Hawthorne, will take over the LaSalle when finished on October 1, for a term of twenty-one years, at an aggregate rental of $1,500,000. and .Al¬ fred H. Thurston who operated the old Astor House, has leased the Hawthorne for twenty-one years at a rental aggre¬ gating about $1,000,000. Weld & Suy¬ dam, with D. Marvin Laughman & Com¬ pany negotiated the transaction. Hotel LaSalle is a fourteen-story structure on plot 82 X 100.5 feet, and was purchased last July from Mrs. .-Vnne F. Leverich, Mrs. Morgan J. O'Brien and Moritz Walter. The l>uilding operation was conducted by Bing & Bing under the name of the Dunnock Realty Company, and was estimated to cost $400,000 by Emery Roth, the architect. The Hotel Hawthorne is a nine-story building at 70 West 49th street, on plot 41.3 x 100.5 feet, and is owned by the Estate of Susie T. Lyons, The old lease on this building has two and one-half years to run, and the brokers have obtained an extension of eighteen and one-half years to complete the twenty-one year term, for which Mr. Thurston will pay about $1,000,000. Lease in 57th Street. Adolph Lewisohn has leased his for¬ mer residence at 9 West 57th street, a five-story limestone structure, 30.6x100 feet, for twenty-one years to Tappe, Inc., milliners. The building is to be exten¬ sively altered. A new facade will be built and the interior changed to suit the requirements of the tenant. The ag¬ gregate rental will approximate about $300,000. The Crook & Livingston Com¬ pany and L. J. Phillips & Company ne¬ gotiated the lease. The property is in the heart of the rapidly growing millin¬ ery trade section. Recently Bruck- Weiss Millinery Company leased the store, basement, second and third floors in the new twelve-story structure to be erected by Michael Dreicer at 6 and 8 West 57th street. Henri Bendel about a year ago purchased 14, and has built an addition to the ten-story building at 10 and 12, which he leased from Mr. Dreicer. The latter parcel was pur¬ chased by Mr. Lewisohn about two years ago from Mr. Dreicer. Lease On Murray HilL Pease & Elliman and Heckscher & de Saulles leased about 20,000 square feet of space in the new sixteen-story Heck¬ scher Building at 244 Madison avenue, to the National Aniline & Chemical Companv. The lessees have been lo- PROPERTY FOR SALE? 'Phone ORCHARD 8400 today and we'll show you the difference between profit and loss, income and outgo. THE JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL puts idle funds to work, and it brings increasing dividends with every additional dollar you spend in its advertising columns. Real Estate ads in THE JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL bring unusually good results. Those who use this paper once, make it their regular medium. THE JEWISH MORNING JOURNAL "The ONLY Jewish Morning Newspaper" 77-79 BOWERY, NEW YORK TELEPHONE ORCHARD 8400 Daniel Birdsall & Co., Inc. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Uptown Office Main Office 425 Fifth Avenue, cor. 38th St. 317 Broadway, cor. Thomas St. Telephone, Vanilerhilt 4281 Telephone, Wortt SOO Established 1860 cated at 100 William street for more than twenty years. The continued de¬ mand for large executive offices in the Grand Central Terminal zone is re¬ flected in the renting of this building which Mr. Heckscher completed about a month ago. It is now about 70 per cent, tenanted. Other concerns which have leased one or more entire floors, include Cass Gilbert, architect, Gunbald Aus, J. Walter Thompson Company adver¬ tising agents; Turner Construction Com¬ pany, builders of concrete structures; Godley & Haskell, architects; the Man¬ hattan Shirt Company, and the J. K. Rishell Furniture Company. Hoffman. Estate Leases for Business. Manning & Trunk leased for the Es¬ tate of Emilie Hoffman, to Harry Tur¬ ner, the four-story dwelling at 122 East 57th street, for ten years. The build¬ ing will be altered by the installation of stores on the lower floors, and apart¬ ments above. The block between Park and Lexington avenues, has recently wit¬ nessed considerable activity, as 112, 120 124, and 126 have of late figured in tran¬ sactions involving alterations or pro¬ posed alterations for business purposes. Tire Company Leases Store. Albert B. Ashforth, Inc., leased to the Kelly-Springfield T-re Company, the large store and basement in the new Rodin Studios Buildmg, at the south¬ west corner of Seventh avenue and 57th street. The lease aggregates $386,115, The space will be used for the general offices of the leasing company. Manhattan. F. E. D.^RNES (I.XC.) has renewed the lease of the iith floor in the Gurney Building. i;j-(l4 West 45th st, to T. B. Harm«, Francis. Day & Hunter, music publishers, and leased additional space on the Sth floor to the same firm ; also tbe nth floor front west to Dr. F. Lawson and the llth floor front east to the National Aca¬ demy of Music, on-e more completing the entire rental of the building. BASTINE & CO. leased the Ttb floor at 42 West l.")th st to Hyman Markum, and at 112 East Wth st space on the Gth floor to the Pil¬ grim Manufacturing Co., and at 653 1st av the Sth floor to Philip Albert, BASTINE & CO. have leased space at 37 West 20th st to the Hasol Co., and at 8 East l-'ith st, space to Fredericlt Erlich, and at lO-l'l West -1st st to Leibowitz & Weiss. DANIEL BIRDSALL & CO. leased at 21 Walker st the 4th loft to Dixie Device Corpora¬ tion : at 12(1 Chambers st the -"id loft to Orgain & Co. ; at 4S:i-7 Broome st the 2d loft to E. H. Wagner: at 81 Walker st the 2d loft to S. McCherry Co. : at Sfl Grand st the 2d loft to I. Rabinowitz ; at l"S-ltO Duane st the 1st lott to .\I. B. Lande Shoe Co. ; at 72-7(5 Greene st the 4th loft to J. & H. Rose, and at 45 Greene st the .5th loft to Zaifert & Malina. BRETT & GOODE CO. leased the southerly half of the lUth floor at 4Gl-7n Sth av to the United States Rubber Co., which was repre¬ sented by the Cross & Brown Co.; also in the same building space to Buggein & Clinton C'o. BRETT & GOODE CO. leased for the Berke¬ ley Arcade Corporation offices in lIl-2.'> West 44th st to Charles H. Lee. Edward C. Winter, H. M. Hughson, John Lowry, E. J. Johnson (In".), The T. F. Moore Co. and Abraham M. Feldman. CARSTEIN &. LINNEKIN (INC.) have made the following leases: space in 24-2(1 East 21st st to August Bros, and Samuel Goldberg: In 215-in 4th av to Schwarz & Haas: a floor In in Madison av to Alfred Sohland: and a floor in lS"-5 East Ifith st to (Jeorge Borgfeldt, Inc. CLAUSEN FLANAGAN BREWERY (INC.) leased to the Forty-Seventh Street Garage (Inc.), at an aggregate rental of about $150,- 000, the stable at 322 to 32S East 47th st, formerly used by the lessors. The garage com¬ pany will remove the existing building to make w^y for a modern garaee to be erected from plans by G. McCabe. The John P. Peel Co. represented the lessees and Henry Brady the Clausen Flanagan Brewery (Inc.). CROSS & BROWN CO. has leased the store at 22S West SSth st to Cole & Dixon (Inc.); also 50,000 s. fqt. of space at (122-040 West 57th st to the Poertner Motor Car Co. : at 54;) West 52d st the 3d floor to Lonsenecker & Sanders (Inc.) ; at 425 4th av the 3d floor to A. Papa- zian : at 505 Sth av space to M. Mueller; at R-10 West 45th st part of the Sth floor to C. H. Burleigh and J. M. Faulhaber: at 15 Bast -irtti st spare to W. W. Stake: at 202-4 East 42d st the Sth floor to Robeson Process Co. CROSS fi BROWN CO. leased the store at 1142 Broadway to Onohdaga Trading Co. in coniunction with Samuel Geller: at 245 West SSth st, part of ,5th floor to Linden « Meyer; part of Sth floor to Norman Lvnn, and part of 10th floor to .\hbott Motor Euipoment Co. ; also ,Tt lon-23 West 64th st, the 10th floor to A, Elliott Ramey Co. DUFF & BROWN CO.' leased for Thomas F. McAvoy a 2-sty garage, 75x1110, on the south side of 174th st, 100 ft. west of Audubon av, for 10 years.