New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-26

severa! blocks south cf Fifty-sixth-st. With
this end in view the company recently purchased
property on the west side of the avenue, in
tending to down the buildings and make
new street where they stand 1t is under
stood that the company has spent about
S1.5o0.OO0 in acquiring this property Widening
the cut in that way would give 10 the company
room for four additional tracks. There are four
tracks in the present open cut
Property owners who have studied the sub
5ect with the aid Of engineers have devised the
plan TO be submitted to-day in the hope that
the railway company and the Board Of Estimate
and Apportionment will find 1t an acceptable
substitute. They say that their plan, if adopted
would increase real estate values on both sides
Of Park-ave.. while il would provide all the
lateral expansion needed for railway tracks
without causing the removal of any houses on
the west side Of the avenue They assert, too
that the extension Of several streets over the
railway cut would he a great advantage TO the
city because at the present time travel by
vehicles across the city is prevented all the
way from Forty-second-st to Fifty-sixth-st
From Fifty-sixth-st. where the railway tun-
rel in Park-ave. ends there is an up grade in
the open cut all the way 70 Forty-eighth-st, as
an accompanying diagram shows, and at Forty
eighth-st the present track grade reaches the
grade Of the street. From Forty-eighth-st-
=
sion The conformation of the ground south of
Fifty-sizJh-st. would enable the engineers TO
depress the tracks so as to make the railway
cut deep enough for street crossing all the way
to Forty-eighth-st.. and still have the trains
enter the Grand Central Station at the present
track grade
By deepening the present cut and also making
3 tunnel Of the same depth under the west side
Of PaTk-ave,, for four additional tracks the
property owners say. II would not be necessary
70 remove the present street there The tunnel
would be open on the side next to the cut, so
that the present street. supported by pillars
would be more like a shelf than the roof Of a
tunnel Ii would not be necessary, IN that case
TO tear down buildings along the west side OF the
avenue and make new street, and the railway
company would save the cost OF the property LOT
a distance OF several blocks.
Engineers who have been aiding the property
owners in making the new plan say mat me
cost Of depressing the railway tracks TO the
proposed grade would not exceed $oOo.cot, and
the railroad company would really save great
deal Of money by adopting their plan; FOR the
future they say. the company nlght nave louL
additional tracks and another street on a shelr
on the east side Of Park-aVe-, II the plan or de-
pressing the tracks is adopted and carried out
Representative of the Central will soon, pos
siblv today submit 10 the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment a tentative plan for the
widening Of the terminal in Forty second-st.
and charging the yard. It is understood that
the engineers viii give an estimate Of the time
required to complete the work and the cost or
the Improvement
The officials have discussed many plans of
late The one formulated last spring provid-
ing for an underground loop under the Grand
Central Station is still adhered to. although re-
Gently there has been talk about building
new terminal near One-hundred- and sixteenth
st, making q connection there with the ele-
waited and subway tracks, distributing local
traffic that way and run none but through
trains into the terminal at Forty-second-st.
This would relieve the congestion there to a
great extent and facilitate passenger transfers
IN the city for local trains. This plan has
not Vet been abandoned