The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-23
THE NEW BRIDGE STATION.
Plans for the New Work Terminus OF the
Structure ut BIackwelI's Island.

btructure NJ htAcAWeiIa hulunu.
The only railroad station for passengers in
town. except the old Hudson River Railroad
station on West Thirtieth street, now used for
suburban trains only. is the Grand Central
Station, which, under plans recently filed. 10
soon to DO enlarged. az 1t is wholly inadequate
for the business centring in it. 1t is soon to
have. II present plans go through successfully,
O rival for the passenger business OF New York,
starting from the east side of town. When the
New York and Long Island Bridge. the Black
wells Island steel cantilever bridge. as 1t is
called, is completed, there will be a station at
the New York end of II, ut Third avenue and
Sixty-fourth street, or, rather. on Third avenue,
between Sixty-fourth and Sixty.ifth streets. and
covering the entire block between Second and
Third avenues. This station will be 6l0 feet
long by 200 feet wide. and the platform will be
81 feet above the street level. The basement
will be occupied by the machinery for the ele-
vators and by q large cold storage plant. The
space devoted TO cold storage alone Will COM
prise 100000 cubic feet.
On the ground floor there will be stores, a
facing which there will be six large elevators,
each having a floor space OF $50 square feet.
ISams! t < ce sleTs1oF csr wi1 eS sy0 Will ShiPff ssd G froS
Sixty.fourth to sixty-ifth street. Tho space
from the carrIIagewny TO second avenue VIII te
given to Il market. Tho second floor Will be ut
vated roa Q on Second and Third avenues.
IL VIII Contain u passenger EOOil ~ icct. ny
80 feet, several restaurants, and n number
OF galleries from which 1t will be possible to look
down upon the market below. Above the en-
trance hall, on the second floor, viii be- n waiting
room. 50 feet By l75 feet, and ticket and tel.
egraph offices. Outside the waiting room will be
a broad platform extending to tho track buffers.
There will BE- twelve tracks in the station. and
the whole will be covered by n roof resting on
arched steel trusses. The length of the Grand
Central Station is 695 feet and the width is 240
feet, SO that the new station when completed
will be smaller than The Grand Central.
New York Is peculiar among American cities
In respect TO It's lack OF railroad facilities for
passengers. for, although thousands, OF passen.
gors arrive or leave daily, the number Of those
who are able to take the cars in New York with
out the Intervention of the ferries is limited TO
such as start from or arrive at the Grand Central
Station. There are some passengers who start
from the l55th street terminus OF the elevated,
which is the landing place of the New York and
Northern Railroad. and Others who start from
tho Thirtieth street station OF the Hudson River
Railroad al Tenth avenue. but both stations are
a part of the same railroad system, as are the
landing places maintained by the Harlem Rail
road at East 10th and East 10th streets. Tho
length OF the new Blackwell's Island Bridge is
TO be two miles. Thirty thousand tons of steel are
TO be used in il, and il will cost about two.thirds AS
much as the Brooklyn Bridge prior 10 its open
ing in 1853.