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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1908
Page
13
Trading remains the market’s backbone with many clients seeking the “other end” of six figure deals. The Appellate Division ruling on basement ceilings for living spaces could reshape many tenements, forcing costly renovations or demolition.
Listings for Monday April 13 and Tuesday April 14 present multiple foreclosures and sheriff sales across Brooklyn and Westchester areas. Properties include five story brick tenements, three and four story brick buildings with stores, and vacant lots. Referees F W Pollock and J P Morrissey oversee judgments and sheriff dispositions with parcels on Broadway Bennett Av Mapes Av Westchester Ave and more.
The sixteen story office and loft building on the Sinclair House site at Broadway and Highth Street will cost about 425000 and be ready by February 1, 1909. The project is led by the Sinclair Hedity Company with James Butler as president and investor Martin Maloney among others. Lease from Sailors’ Snug Harbor Corporation spans sixty three years. The 7600 square foot rentable space will front 43 feet on Broadway and 28 feet on Eighth Street with a 37 foot side on Star Place, designed in French Renaissance style with limestone on the lower floors and brick above.
Es tate notices detail foreclosures and partition sales pushing on judgments. Properties include vacant lots on Pacific Street and 10th Street. multi story tenements on 24th Ave and West 98th Street. two and four story brick and frame dwellings with stores and lofts. Referees named include W B Coughlan and Bryan L Kennelly with totals due on judgment ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands.
The item lists foreclosure and partition sales on numerous Brooklyn and Manhattan addresses including Barclay Street Washington Street Allen Street Broadway 152nd Street 165th Street West 116th Street and East River properties. Referees include Terence J McManus Howard Cohen Carlisle Norwood Edward L Patterson George Gillspie and Charles Donohue with judgments and mortgages noted.
Foreclosure notices outline multiple properties with details including addresses and measurements. Referees listed include Charles Guggenheimer E W McDonald I J Fitzgerald Burt Rich and days due on judgments range around 5 002 to 31 121 with mortgages ranging up to 176 000. The properties include stone front dwellings brick tenements and five story structures in Manhattan area with multiple lot sizes and corner locations.
The Building Department lists permits for several projects including a twelve story brick mercantile building at 8 East U2th St by Master Builders Realty and Construction Co cost 10000. a two story frame dwelling on Tid St es by James A Garvey cost 4500. a four story brick store and tenement at Barnes Av by D Pomana cost 26000. a two and a half story frame dwelling on Keppler Av by Touls & rkwort cost 3000. a three story brick dwelling on Ea St 266 East by M Leichtag cost 10000.
A dense list of property transfers across Manhattan streets including Sth Av 888 to Fienry A Jackson Jr, Madison Av 901 to Gem Realty Co, Canal St to City of New York, and many other parcels with mortgage values and small transfer sums noted. Names include Robert T Oakley, Joseph O Webster, Ramsay Peugnet, John Hayden, Edward Milch, and Louis Manhelm among others. Property scales range from irregular lots to standard blocks with mortgages from $2,500 to $105,400. The notice catalogs transfers by street and block, referencing numerous executors and trustees.
Plans for a 14 story office tower on the Fifth Avenue Hotel site call for a 56.4 thousand square foot area nearly twenty three lots. Architects Maynicke and Franke design a large interior court over sixty feet wide with nineteen high speed elevators. Hetdent Construction Co will erect the building and aim to complete within twelve months. Salvage of the old hotel is discouraged due to time and cost concerns.
The narrative outlines erecting an office building with two arced arcades of twenty three feet width, a central rotunda, interior lighted offices, and a granite base with white marble arcades topped by Siena marble pilasters. Exterior use includes steel trim and no wood visible, near Fifth Avenue Broadway and Twenty third to Twenty fourth Street with a nearby hotel.
A fragmentary entry lists multiple real estate transfers with buyer and property details across streets such as West 225th Street Clinton Street Bryant Avenue and Rivington Street. Several amounts are noted including 21000 to 41000 dollars, with buyers like Laura Dreher Abraham L vas a and Frank L French among others.
A long list of Deeds and mortgage submittals shows transfers from numerous grantors to grantees across Manhattan streets. Entries include amounts from $5,000 to $40,000 with terms such as two to five years and interest notes. properties on West 150th Street Lenox Avenue 9th Street and others feature in transfers to buyers and trustees.
The notice lists multiple foreclosure and mechanics lien actions including Germania Life Insurance Company versus Charles Weinstein and others on Amsterdam Avenue near 86th Street, John Calan versus Jennie Marcus on Sth Street, and George Robinson versus Hyman Vogel on Grand Street, with attorneys and parcel details for each action. It also notes partition actions, counterclaims, and other foreclosures across Brook Avenue, Water Street, Union Avenue, and related blocks, naming firms Dulan & Roe, Cannon & Cannon, and Westcott among others.
The new Terminal Building at Park Avenue and Forty first Street reports 70 percent of its space leased. Tenants include many from the building trades, making the structure a notable center for that industry.
Joseph P. Day schedules a Tuesday auction of about twenty Brooklyn properties. The sale follows the Wright estate success and targets parcels mainly in the southern Brooklyn area near the Fourth Avenue Subway work. Highlights include 252 and 26 Tenth Street and parcels along Seventies Street through Stuyvesant Avenue and nearby streets.
Granger and James sell fifty five acres at North Arlington to H A Arthur of Manhattan and Arthur resells to Arlinston Park Realty Company. Properties front Kearny Avenue to Passaic Avenue with immediate development planned. Several parcels in Ridgewood Leonia Terrace Morsemere and Hudson Heights change hands among local firms and individuals.
Oakdale L J offering four and five acre plots with free access to Great South Bay. Auction by Bryan L Kennelly on Tuesday Mer 12 at Vesey Street Salesroom. Lots near Idle Hour and South Side Sportsmen's club with Oakdale Avenue central, linking to Motor Parkway near Oakdale Station.
The records list cases from March 24 1908 and December 2 1907 involving entities such as West Russell Electric Company Elizabeth G Hartsche Co Horace Harding and others. Amounts cited include 516 and 5454 dollars. Locations given include 20th Street and 5th Avenue areas with property descriptions in feet.
The report lists multiple land and house sales by the Rickert-Moire Realty Company and others in Garden City and surrounding areas. Properties include plots on Latshury, Kensington, Twenty-second, and Hollywood Avenues, with buyers such as Lucy Wright and Green Van Widener. It records numerous parcels, dimensions, and street details, plus additional sales by Queens Court Realty Company across Ormorde Park Bayhampton and Valley Stream developments.
A prominent Broadway corner on Washe teton Heights will be sold at auction by D Phoenix Inoreham on Tuesday April 2. The property at the southwest corner of Broadway and 170th Street includes nine lots facing 112 feet on Broadway and 170 feet on 17th Street.
Multiple property disputes listed with owners contractors and sums. Entries include Adal Krebs Stern Alihous Construction Vic 420 West Roth Dastier Dey tractor 40 Bedford 102 FEsthir Bossidus Dey contractor 100 Mangin Sito Applebaum Sheimart Pevenson 40 Central Park West 5s Walter Kidde Haines Realty 512 Markus Peilstein owner tractor 250 Amsterdam Ave between 4th and 115th Sts 205x100.
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