New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-01
PREPARING TO LAY ASPHALT.
SEVENTEEN MORE STREETS TO BE IN
PROVED-AN EXPERIMENT WITH
ASPHALT BLOCKS.

Commissioner Wills Of the Department Of CT;
Works IL preparing TO advertise FOR proposals for
la wing asphalt pavemcnts on parts OF seventeen
streets in different sections Of the city. There are
come specially interesting features about this batch
OF streets that be provided with smooth pave
ments The full list Is as follows
Montrose-ave. between Union ana Hnshwick "vcs. )
Macon-st between Stuyvesant and Reid ayes; Md
dagh-st between Henry-st. ana columbia h"iBhtS'
Tavlor-st between Wythe and lee ayes; Four
feminist between Eiphth-aye am prospect fdik
Iyes,. Fourth-et between Seventh and Eighth ayes ;
righth-ave between President and Carroll SITS;
Keap-st between Marcy and Division ayes south
Nlnth-st between Wythe-ave. and Berry-st faI-
metto-st between Bushwick and Evergreen ayes
sidney Place between Livingston ana Stit' SIS
painbridgc-ss between Stuyvcsant ana keId aN'".'
csrroIl-st between Sevcnth-ave. and Prospect PARK
West; T.enox Road between F1atbush ana h's's
ayes Dean-et between Bedford and Franklin AYES; ;
p.c,ocs, between Bedford and Nostrand ayes,
wu,ouehby-aye between Tompkins and Throop
ayes. .
All OF these re TO be paved with sheet asphalt
with the exception Of Sidney Place. on which 1t II
nronosed 70 place asphalt blocks This Will be al
mos, n new experiment in Brooklyn. There !" only
an. sbor, strip OF such pavement in the city. ana
,b,, ia in Cour. Square, Boerum Place. between
Fulton and Livingston sts. This was liid s"Vefa'
wears ago and. the whole. mas given gooi Ha''S-
faction. 49,
son T. Lewis who has charge OF the Bureau OF
Local improvements in the city Works Depart
ment made favorable mention OF this variety OF
pavement In his last annual report ana recon-
mended that II be tried further Asphalt block
pavement Is somewhat more expensive than sheet
asphalt but IT will take the bids that are soon 10
be called for to determine just what the difference
in cost "a In Brooklyn. There seems to be little
douht that the asphalt blocks made nowadays are
sunerlor TO those laid seven or eight years ago on
Court S1ua %, and that they VIII be more d"raoie'
sidney Place is a street which there is little
traffic 1t runs from Joralemon-st to State-st, not
far from the City Hall. and is rot really thor
ourbfare in the strict OF the word IL Is best
Lroun 70 the public from the fact. that the Roman
Ca,boIic Church Of 81. Charles Borromeo fronts on
II one block of this short street Is no" ph'en
with sheet asphalt. between Joralemon ana Inv
ings,on SITS The remaining block is about three
times as long and the asphalt blocks VIII therefore
cover about $50 feet - T., sh, q,
asphalt pavement Is to be laid In part OF sr ,t
~ nndertaken by the city in the recently annexed
territory. There is an asphalt pavement IN AZ
,own before IL became a part Of the city. l.enox
Road formerly called Diamond-s,, Is one OF I'm, ,loe
vided with a Scrmshaw or asphalt pavement WI
tvnye or thirty years ago, and this has now fallen
was recently built through the street. ...., -,
This Is the only street III the new wards paVeu az
he or the pTOptIly -o"Htia, n''"
snglv n. only one that can be repaved under the
law governing the repavng OF streets IN the odfr
mart Of the city. To a considerable extent me ou
pavement can be used as u foundation Tor the ne"
pna huf where II has been torn away concrete
1ou,ndaton will be laid for the asphalt
The other streets which 1t Is proposed to repave
In mart are not OF general public interest Ina smuch
as they Will not help complete thoroughfares or
through routes to any extent The extension OF tne
asnha1t pavement in South Ninth-st.. however to
Wythe-ave. will carry asphalt ore block ne et,h
to the ferries at the lower end OF Broadway WIN IN
tb,s Improvement completed one Will be able TO go
on asohaIt ali the way to the ferries. except for
distance of five blocks.