New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-27
CITY ITEMS


are now beginning The Superintendent of Street I'M
provements has given notice to all the propery-owpers
along the line Of Chambers street and its proposed ex
tension to James dip, on the East River which cats
open very degraded and unhealthy part Of the city
that they to begin tearing down their houses
The grade through this new artery of public travel
has not yet been fully decided upon. Atpresen under
the direction of the Street Commissioner, number OF
surveyors are employed in mapping out the various
street crossings, and noting their respective grades
They are expected to report soon.
The SUPERINTENDENT Street improvements will then
make out complete plan Of operations, and the I'M
provements will be hurried forward as fast as possible
IT win be necessary TO elevate depress the grace at
the various points to considerable degree, as the part
of the city embraced is uneven. AT James shp IL Will
be raised. In connection with the orders distributed
among the property owners those interested are IN
formed that they can claim the amount Of their damage
in four months after date provided they have complied
with the law in tearing down their premises Alter
the houses have all been torn down, the Street De-
partment viii Immediately proceed to grade, dag curb
and gutter the Streets and the Croton Department will
lay water pipes and pave it. The complete JOB will
take long time before it is finished; but when once
opened Chambers street, by reason Of its situation,
will assume animporance hitherto scarcely thought OF.
The project of widening Worth street is still pending
before the Supreme Court. Though most lsudaole
movement opposition of the most bitter kind has been
organized against it, Those living weet OF Broadway
are unanimously in favor Of the widening, andhave in
fact already begun the matter of their own accord
whole block of old buildings has been torn down. back
CT the Broadway Hospital, and the new buildng-an
immense warehouse extending the full length OF the
block, now in progress of erection by the hrm oil
Clafin e. Meen--is set back from the present curb
sufficient distance to allow Of Worth street becoming
in that locality after few months more, not only
respectable but attractive business street. Those
opposed to the widening have organized Themselves
into society to oppose the movement for which pur
pose they have raised considerable money The mat
ter has been argued in the Supreme Court for several
months past The Judge has not yet rendered biz de-
cison, but is expected shortly to do SO. Any cpposi-
ton to the widening of Worth street serve to de-
lay, but will hardly avail to prevent it.
Duane and Reade streets were opened last Sum-
mer, but they remain unpaved. The people not long
since petiioned TO have the grade rectied, having
finally come 70 an agreement on q matter taat they
ouarreled about before the Common Council Com
mittees all last Summer; and it went before the Com.
mon Council in whom is vested the authority to make
any changes deemed necessary but there the petition
was first passed without advertising for objections,
which was illegal and then taken up again, after all
had been duly notified, AID finally landed in the
drawers of Committee, where it remains for some
unknown reason, keeping all further improvements on
those streets in statue quo.
The extension of Duane street. in astraight line down
to Gold street. i, talked of but remains Enacted upon
for the present.
There ia also movement in progress for changing
the grade of West Broadway.
A large number of the citizens of Grand street have
on foot the widening of that street from to
ysriek street, but the opposing party, led by Thomas
Suferns have got an Injunction which, however, is
only temporary, and abiding the win of the Common
Council. d
The chief advantage claimed in favor Of opening
Grand street is. that a suitable highway would DO
opened from Wamsburgh across the city tothe North
River, jersey City, and Hoboken in the same manner
as the extension of Chambers street direct COM
munication between Brooklyn and those places. p
Sixth avenue is about 10 be opened from One-hun-
dredand-twenty Dinth-street to the Harlem River and
the work will commence as soon the legal time for
advertising in the newspapers for obectors has been
complied with. Seventy-eghth stree5 is also to be
opened, from Third avenue to the East River. In re-
ference to the opening of these streets the Common
Council have nothing to say the Legislature having it
in charge The operate ms of the Common Council are
confined below the streets formerly known as Arch
and North streets corresponding with present First
street, and the reighborhood of Washington Square.
THE New FRIENDS MEETIEGH ousE.-Those who
read our reports Of the proceedings of the yearly meet
hart not u,na Ia
faction was felt and expressed with the accommoda-
tons at the Heser-street Meeting House. and that
project for the erection of new building was dis
cursed. The yearly meeting, it will be remembered,
finally adopted propoi ion to make donation OF
$40 900 to the monthly meeting of Newfork on con-
don that that meeting would purchase land and erect
building Of the value in the whole OF $lOOooo. Many
of the Friends thought that this was altogether too
large sum- and that would be found impracticable
to ae it, but we are informed that the whole amount
required has been raised without difficulty in the few
weeks that have clap we'd since the yearly meeting, and
that the land has been already purchased The amount
raised by New-York monthly meeting was $50 900;
$4,000 are to be raised in addition from the sale of the
Heserstreet property which, with the $4,000 to be
given by the yearly meeting, make up the total OF
100000 The land purchased is on the block bounded
BY Rutherford place. Fifteenth and Sixteenth street.
and fronts on all three of those streets and Stuyyes-
ant square, is in the immediate vicinity Of Dr. Tyngs
Church lSt Georges. There are eleven lots, and the
cost, as we are informed was $4,000. The plat Of
ground being larger than win be required for the pur-
poses of the meeting portion Of it will probably
be sold. Much Gberality was displayed by Friends IN
their subscriptions to the fund One wealthy Friend
in the leather trade gave, we underst md, soOoOi
another the head of hardware house, 81 900; and
large number Of others sums varying from $4,000 to
al 600 and 30 ON down to smaller sums. The building