New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-18
ANOTHER PARK DECIDED ON
A TILT OVER THE RIVERSIDE DRIVE
EXTENSION WHICH IS DENOUNCED
BY THE MAYOR AND MR.
yrpOI OMAN

JERoLoMAN.
nh. poard ~ Street Openings and Improvement
..,orday decided to lay out small park between
r,.venth and Twelfth ayes, extending from fliV
.econd-st TO Fifty-fourth-st. Tho North I'Ve'
comes close TO Twelfth-ave. at that place 1hiee
tour,h, Of the cost OF opening the park II was
dand.d should be assessed upon the city al large
- 80 ,orrth unon the property in the district
west of Ninth-ave.. from Forty-elShth-s' ~ f1''
sixth-st 1000. c,a,.-
preliminary steps were taken to connect O'a'
roont-aye with the Riverside Drive by rouue
oY the northwest corner OF One hunoreo- 81.
,eenth-st and Claremont-ave ana the SUI - y
80 a, One-hundred- a nd sixteenth-st ana '"o
Drive. ia, Tho onf-
-, ~. Harlem River Boating Club. VINO re-
Gently asked TO have small PARK iaio " $50
..r,h hank OF the Harlem River. near LehoA
yo unon which the fifteen rowing ciuoe ~.
build their houses. PARK SI,a.t he
MILAN reported unfavorably upon this re'ues.'
u.,.ng that the land required should De iei' -o
commerce He proposed that the rowing Gus
should build upon the property now o""eu =. &c.,
Park Department on the north sue Vi nv a.s
vest of Cromwelrs Creek. Two oio ioau
already on the land were offered 10 inc 80 .,,
-snrs.ent,tiye of the clubs intimated tha' 'Al
would be satisfactory emo tho nia''ei
hack TO the Park Department .,sa
Isu.s divers project for conneouns
- MulhArrv Bend parks by cutting on par " -
sbarp corner of property between 'ie -. ould
nm Mr. Oliver said that the lmpro'eIno p,.,o
-. frontage for the missions at five -
Ths Board passed favorably upon IL AN
IN. preparation OF maps for ming
rUhan ths Board considered plans TOT lne Ga
-. -, ~. Riverside Drivs north OF phe-hu"
ATHEIST, In ooeolehce " VIZ 90
80 th. Court Colonel 8. V. r. Cruger oo'e 60
hav,nr the grade Of the extension hshei w.
thirty-seven feet at the TRINITY 80. Ds
yIrnhs,., the engineer Of the Public WORKS
~.,,an, ssi6 that II the grade was 'o"ei'u "
t~.,,v-.avsn feet IL would make necessar! ch""s
a. srsd.s Of all the adjoining streets oe'eiA -
ms. IN favor of the driveway ahs"eieu g.,
ohonea IN these grades would oeheH. p'0p g.,
~. re,ghborhood, and this started oiSou''" A.
80 IN. Mayor and President JeroioniAh 20
"haon 49,. uhole extension scheme as one got
,a.srestsd property owners for the oehen' u
ronsrtv along the route The Mayor seize Of the
haye been in favor Of taking tne ~e, 10
slope Wes' PARK and would be willing 70 Tye
toward that end: but TINS sSmei men who wanted
t tn INCREASE the Of their pr0pen mos, sbomi
II 1t carried out tnih vent into and will be
nabl s, thing 9s ths cry ever " saving
Mr. Jeroloman agreed with HIN the the route had 10
{nS q toward t themselves they woHie .aS Se TO
t. 'This whole thing is an sen of the city
benefit TGSI yyas "a Mr. snk
resenting the ebs is to be assessed upon the
property nenetS ra YOU paw it. replied MI Jeroio
NV :some OF you will go 10 the
get IL all put upon the city. aoroended 70 be put
~ record as saying that he desired no bo tbought
the Board TO vote for the en,eh'0N
q was not in the public interest," -. ou5ne 70 the
The Mayor said he supposed 6u thf Be- SSmpeed
mandate Oh rn though he thought II an ouIaee
on the city o GG noi S@ THe Mayor
IN ,be matter by suggesting that tne pa" oD;nion
terred to the CORPORATION CSunsTln e Whole matter
as =" ia over until next Fridays meeuhs'