New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-28

topic in the City Hall. Everybody has plan, snd
each thinks Is in duty bound, that bis plan in the
best One proposes to f lup the Easements and cut
down the sidewalk but then he wants . railroad,
ard to get that the carrisgeway must be widened.
Az other would build railway along the second
story windows, and destroy the first stories and
ruin the entire street. Another would tunnel under
tie pavement, and down among the gas and water
pipes, ard forward people and packages BY atmos.
pheiic pressure. Then comes q second ass, fero-
cious for Opening aud widening lateral streets; and
they propose to widen Greene and Church streets,
extending north and south to Union square and tho
Battery; to widen Wooster street, and Gu. through
in straight line to Greenwich street; to widen
LsureDs street, and run through Washington square
to The Fifth avenue, and down to Greenwich street.
to do just the same with Thompson street; to ex.
tend The SIKH avenue straight to Greenwich street,
to open Crosby street, and cut up and down to Union
square and the Park; to extend Centre street to
Union square; TO widen Chatham aud Nassau
streets down to Wall street, to widen Pearl street
from Franklin square to Whitehall street.
Now, admitting that some one or more Of these
propositions is to be adopted the great question is
which one or two will achieve the desired result
Above the Park no one will pretend tha. Broadway
requires relieving, especially in the carrsge-wsy.
There Is no place, unless obstructed with blildiDg
materials, where team cannot get along easily aud
rapidly, except for the few minutes at night when
tbeaters are emitting their audiences It is true
tie sidewalks are Crowded, but that is because
Mayor Wood does not compel the removal Of boxes,
bales and barrels as he should do. The great and
only real trouble is below the Park, where the i'm.
mense stream Of passengers and merchandise from
the eastern side of the town comes into Broadway
Thence to the Battery the throng is overwhelming
and constant, hour afcer hours for foot passengers
to cross the street is dangerous, and scarcely
cement in the day il there chance to drive be.
you'd q snail's pace. Here we must have relief
but howl
cardinal principle in all street opening aud wild.
enirg is to improve the neighboring property, aud
make the work finally pay for Itself. Tnat grand
avenue seventy five feet wide along Church and
Greene or Wooster streets will ct once. pay for its
cost, cannot be expected; but it is reasonable to
euppOee that within short period the increased as
easements on property between such street and
Broadway ard along the new streetitseif, would re-
inburse the heavy expense. With such an avenue
to take either the up or down travel Of the stages
Broadway would be efficiently relieved, so far as
vehicles are interested. Blu. it will not do TO 20 too
fer Of The nearer We keep to the grand artery, the
more relief we give. West Broadway, for instance,
is broad street, but does not help the crowd at
all; it 10 too far off, Church street. however, with
Greene street straight to Union square, the line
most feasible ard reasonable. There may DO o
question as to the route from Eighth street up, but
that is not important. What we wants assventy
dve-feet street from Battery place (Which is to be
wicened) to Union square, with Belgian or iron
pavement.
On tie other side, Crosby street will no! do.
Besides taking down the beautiful Savings Bank 10
Biz ecler street. it must stop short at the Park
lees We cut down the City Hall. Stopping there
the lower part Of Broadway would get no help a.
ell but rather the contrary. Centre street 10 liable
TO the same general objection, with the addition
that the grade is too low. Pearl street is too far
from Broadway, and nearly all the property owners
along the line are syerte. For the east side, then,
we must fall back upon the ofen-sugges'ed widen
irg Of Chatham and Nassau streets. The natural
ol apnel Of CONN uncation for the Eellers on the
eastern eide of the city is down the Bowery,
Chatham street. Park row and Broadway. Not
one in hundred would rush into the crowd below
the Park if be could avoid it. Give Nassau street
a width Of seventy five feet and q good pavement,
and the current would flow there naturally enough.
Broad street il a magnificent opening for such
stream, ard would soon rival Broadway in tho mum.
Der OF ito vehicles.
By these measures we have three broad avenues
from Canal street to the Battery instead Of one aud
three instead Of two in the other direction. Once
accomplished let the stages, for instance, all 90
down Broadway; but in coming up, send the west
ern liLes up. Church street. and the eastern up
Nassau. Thus Broadway VII be perfectly re-
leved and the work Of widening the streets leading
up town would be finished for q century.
The main trouble in the matter is the narrowness
of the measures. One proposes this, aud another
Il at small Improvement, but all fail to grasp com.
prehensve system which shall secure the object at
single bound OF course, two such avenues as
above il dicated would cost very large sum- but
il is an investment that viii pay much sooner and
much better than any halfway measure. II the LOAD
should finally be considered too heavy, and one Or the
other be abandoned, it seems TO us that the wes.
fde siOud Yield soonest, f,r the reason that the
Bowery travel cannot set out of Broad way except
By al avenue on the east side along Chatham aud
Nassau streets. But the whole matter is now be-
fore the Common Council, and all who feel inter
es'ed should come forward AID express their