New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-24
PART II.
PAGES II TO IA.
THE NEW CITY COLLEGE SITE
PROBABLY TO BE IN HARLEM, on THE
EAST SIDE.
THE COMMITTEE SAID To TIE NEAR a DECISION
STUDYING THE TENDENCY OF TorULA-
TON 50 As TO PUT TIE BUILDING

FOR THE NEXT CENTURY.
The work Of selecting site for the City
College has been making rapid progress in the last
few days The subcommittee having the matter
in charge has not arrived az a formal conclusion.
yet the subject has assumed definite shape in the
minds Of most Of the members. They have acted
with great deliberaton in the matter. for they
realize that on their decision the future welfare Of
me college will depend. There seems little doubt
now that the new City College will he erected in
that section of Harlem bounded by One-hundrcd-
and-tcnth and ne-hundred-and-twenty -fourth
SIS. and by Madison and Eighth ayes. The growth
Of New-York City in the last thirty years has been
such as lead to the belief that this section will
be the centre of population for the greater part Of
the twentieth century. The overflow population,
instead of finding outlet on Washington
Heights is pouring the Harlem at Second
and Third avos., spreading into Westchester
County and eastward. This tendency has pract-
cally determined the committee on recommending
a site in the vicinity Of e-hundred-and-sx-
feminist and 1Nfth-ave There are many entire
blocks of land in the nelghborhood that have not
been built upon. and which could be purchased for
a comparatively small The amount Of
money appropriated for the purchase Of new site
for the City College is 5000 OOO and s575,OOO has
been given for the erection of suitable buildings
Most of the blocks in this section of the city are
about 1000 feet long by 200 wide. and contain some
eighty lots. st. Nicholas-ave.. however. begin
ming a Central Park. runs in northwesterly d.
rection across the section. thus cutting many or
the long blocks into smaller blocks.
II has been strongly urged by some of the men,
hers Of the committee that it would be excel
lent idea to combine the hall Of the Board OF Edu-
cation with the new City College. The present
hall Of the Board OF Education in Grand-st is
inadequate. and by some of the Commissioners 1t
rs regarded as too far from the centre OF school
affairs The present property of the board is
valued at several hundred thousand dollars
There is also fine plot Of ground at Ffftyninth-
s., and Park ave. valued at several hundred thou
sand dollars more. 1t is suggested that these two
pieces Of property be sold and the money set aside
for the purchase Of additional ground large
enough 10 accommodate both buildings. IN case
the two site funds are thus put together. 1t is
probable that two blocks may be purchaser ana
the street between them closed thereby, giving a
magnificent site for the proposed new buildings
in such an event probably two OF the shorter
blocks would be selected
Commissioner Robert Maclay. who is a member
of the subcommittee on selecting site, said 10
a Tribune reporter yesterday: We cannot 20
too carefully in this business but We have gone
the new college buildings Will not and just about
where they will be placed. The subject OF a
new site was agitated two three years ago,
and canvassed the city pretty thoroughly ior an
available place. Al that time MOrningsiue
Heights offered tempting home for the college.
but il Is hardly proba1le that we shall go there
one reason for this is the great advance In the
price Of land
Il have been informed that the centre or New
Yorks population is somewhere between F1ltv-
ninth and Seventy second SITS. and II IL moving
northward so rapidly that by the time the new
buildings Of the City College are completed the
centre Of population may be near OHe-h uhor"u-
and tenth-st This inclines us to look above
One-hundred a nd-tenth-st. for the new site. ana
the only question remaining is how faf nOrth
and how far 10 the west ought we go
strong inducements have been made 10 us 10
come up 10 FOrdham Heights. But going there
would b.. "a great a mistake az the going below
Observation-Disclosures. 1t seems imperative
IN nv mind 10 have the new site as near the
centre of population for the next 100 years as We
can guess 1t strikes me that somewhere near
one-hundred- d-SiXteenth-st. and fIitn-dNe. IS
iusr about the place want. This part o. the
civ presents many advantages. II Is easily &C
cessihle for one fare, from all quarters or IN"
civ both downtown and in the annexed dis
,rict This would not be the case II we selected
q cite east % Third-ava.. or west Of Eighth-ave,
ar ,f we went below One-hundred- and-tenth-st
or above One hundred nd-thirty-hfth-st