The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06
UPPER BROADW AY'SPLlGlIT
STREET 7ORN UP ron rom MILES
AND TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
Residents and Property Owners Would
Like 80 Know why TamInany Lets
the Contractors Seize mud Hold Tint
nnd the Intcrsccting ThorOughfares.

iarly Of different sections of the city:
issue % Ts Snni RTo}F JUNK %E %nI SS?r
cnargs 81 the Trolley subways. having taken
rp-SSs,ion OF, the different streets for the
and positive damage to adjoining property aud
III" menace 81 IA" ruhlic health.
M% tn" yf rom I2 bo ,Sf To I9H
seventh street II l2ih street. are either an
i'r"lN torn NJ or il! an unfinished condition on
account Of the contractors not having finished
their work at any onr point. They began last
fall tearing ny Broadway below Forty seventh
iIrtcd.
This action on tho part Of the contractors, is
owners of property on this thoroughfare, "a
tenants ar" ra"ating their apartments and it is
almost impnsslhIc 70 rent them with the, street
this matter in hand. and can assure Won OF
IL" fun support and, sympathy Of all owners
Zach block could aud should hc completely
finished the asphalt laid. materials removed
t,.,n a. possible. and trust you will urge to
this "nd A PROPERTY OwSER.
leaders Of the New York newspapers will re-
cal That II has been publicly charged that tho
riGht - tear NJ tn" streets for tho purpose Of
Installing electric motive power on the lines Of
railway controlled by the Third Avenue Rail-
iull Company was withheld by the Tammuny
o'lr"hp'dnr- unt!l arrangements were made to
give the contract for tho work to this firm
Certainly there Was Prolonged delay in get
ting IA" work started. and then NaughtOn &
Co.'S advertisement appeared all along the limo
o. the wagons aud the housings for men and
ir,p.r0,rDts which decorated tho highways
f. nm ~" Post one" 20 IN" Washington Heights
JET lr croker has denied that he i, Interested
f., III Ih'npm"ualIy PROSPEROUS firm What
other firm hashing in the light Of his favor or
Ilmmany'~ il permitted to ohstruct the streets
1. l.t,-
Jrrs.ue are not wanting who have looked
diligently. If not hopefully. for iniica-
toms II It. \ reporter found yesterday
that Property Owners" modest phrase
iron below Forty-s"v"nth street stretched
down to Forty -fuurth street. Tho middle OF
T." lower end Of Long Aero Square. from
Iurty-fourth to Forty-lfth street, is torn up
between tn" Broadway and the Seventh avenue
railway tracks. and the roadway between tho
seventh avenue tracks and the westerly curb is
n SO torn up. Piles Of boards. logs. pipes. old
tin. broken stone and general refuse litter the
street and sidewalk surfaces between, beside
a.! At distance from the excavations. There
ar" piles in the middle OF the square and piles
in tho cutters and piles elsewhere. There
are piles around the ncighhOring corners and
heaps at intervals convenient for Naughton
4 Co.
Similar Disbursements mar d ffercnt portions
Of the next block above. where the pavement
has not been replaced along either side Of tho
tracks. and where huge dirt pile rises in the
very centre If the square. 1t wancs in tho rain
and distributes yellow mud over the asphalt
about it, and in n windstorm fills the air with
clouds Of dust. There was no passagewny
west from Broadway into Forty-nfth street
yesterday. and piles Of pipes and timbers cum
hcred that street for forty feet to the westward
The nitIlp Of the bnt pa siyth
and Forty seventh streets Is filed with paving
blocks. and there is no pavement beside the
tracks there. Seven TO Lot signs were
counted on this block. forcrunners Of tho con-
ditions prevailing further uptown. where there
are moro residences
From Forty-scveuth to Forty ninth streets
half OF the eastern sidewalk is occupied by the
raNinG blocks that should have been replaced
In the roadhed long ago. The east half of the
roadway along :her" looks like produce gar
den between crops when the soil has been
overturned and some fresh loan thrown on
T%t%n1 I ho TraES on is mn1ssbIe The
travel ] here is a broken pavement Of Bel
Gian blocks over part Of the distance Even
ms Is missing for yard or two next to the
did condition to break carriage Wheels. there
h'ing dnen slots or, ruts in it where the tenn
while the regular tracks were being altered
inr me coming trolley cars These slots are
}i MS wa" enough Tor carriage wheel TO sink
ar" humps at every few feet. the hulloWs from
which the ties for the temporary tracks we're
Above Forty ninth street and ms far as Fifty
third street The pavement takes on this char
some o: them weighted with stones to keep itT;
the within Of Ithe wind anywher" between the
TRACKS aud the cutters. Except at the Fifty-thrd
rh.,ra
progress. ,thc new Broadway tracks are in
IaiS i fer most ~ oithis distance paved with
porary tracks laid gu. near the curbs arc still in
use up to Stxty-htth street: and breaks in tho
finest PLACES in the world to bronx wagons and
the ok a have s sch Shy
set back in place in punches. These lunches
RS, irrsgnlorIy from two, inches 10 perhaps
ley. which may b." itself thrrn or four inches
above the level Of that strip Of n yard or two OF
Of tn" central, regular tracks. Then. still
nearer to either curb. than these B"lginn
liked to rough thick boards. the temporary
tracks rise four or six inches. So that man
driving from a cross street has first To-
rise from tho asphalt and bump over the
boards underlying the temporary tracks. then
down again to the asphalt level after which he
JoIts along over the BelEian hnmmorks. drops
perhaps. prccipitOusly into tho unpavcd striD
along the regular tracks rises again over these
70 repeat ne eNperlence in reverse order at
"a" other side, except whore tn" contractors
have laid some rising boards. or bridge boards
as has boon done in SOM" instances. At Fifty
sixth street Yesterday afternoon even a two
horse express truck couldn't get over these
ohstructi0ns. and had to stand In the middle ~
the street Will" IN" d river carried a trunk he
had TO deliver over the stone field ~ an apart
mont house on tho corner.
Between SiNticth and Sixty first strcetss.and
two tool boxes and three shantics Of Naught0n
4 Co.'S, on sidewalk, grass III orstrect Sixty
first street. between broadway and Central
faLk W"a' is moqopoli2ed by III" firm Nn
traffic could get through when the reporter
WIS there yesterday Piles Of snud. earth
cement in barrels and ri broken Stone rise a
dozen f""t above the sidewalk ard tho road
led AtSiXty-s"cond street is another shantv
and tralc al Sixty second street cannot rroSs
kroadwav, or could not yesterday afternoon
Near SiNty-thirl street. about O'Clock an
asuh@lt wagon got stuck between the tracks
regular and TEMPORARY 1t required S"vcn
men Ia help the team Of horses get the
wagon out In SiXty-third street at the corner
Of Roadway, thrc" Of Nnughton'S shlnti"s
~ N a TIM : Ia,