New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14
DREAM OF A POLICE PALACE.
COMMISSIONER PARTRIDGE URGES a NEW
BUILDING IN LONG ACRE SQUARE

BUILDING IN LONG ACRE SQUARE.
A recommendation for the removal of Police
Headquarters from Mulberry-st. to Long Acre
Square announced yesterday by Commissioner
Partridge. He would have the city buy the whole
block bounded by Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
SITS. Broadway and Seventh-ave.. a site for a
modern fireproof building. He asks the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment acquire that prop
erty by condemnation proceedings. IL necessary.
and he suggests that the Mulberry-st property be
sold TO meet of the expense of the new
headquarters building.
The announced determination of the adminstra-
| ton to spend millions in extending rapid transit
facilities In improving dock property in providing
more schools for the many thousands of children
who need school accommodations and In the &C
quirenent of an additional water supply probably
will prevent the realization Of Colonel Parridge's
dream OF a police palace that would millions
of dollars. Colonel Murphy. who was Police Com
missioner in the Tammany administration, had
visions OF such palace. 10 be erected on the site
of the College OF the City of New-York at Twenty
third-st and LexingtOn-ave.. when the college
moves uptown. Colonel Murphy dreamed. too of
having the city acquire the Madison Square Gar
den as central police station where police resi-
ments mounted and afoot, could be drilled for
parades former Tammany Police Board sug-
gested the erection Of large police headquarters
building on IA part OF Bryant Park
While commissioners have urged the abandon
ment of the building which erected forty years
largely with funuS COftIIOuteu ny tHe poiiSe'
the rank and file of the department never nave
looked kindly on propositions 10 desert Mulberry
St where so much police history has been made
Mulberry-st. in the American metropolis mas been
made about as famous Scotland Yard in Lon
don b, the notice headquarters service. In the
time OF the old Metropolitan Police Department.
ubose district embraced Yonkers as well as the
territory the present greater city 'he oulidhs
j., uuIbarrv-st was found adequate for the central
roI,ca offices and for the offices OF the Health
po,rd and +, then was regarded as the most
central site that could be obtained IN the district
1-ba huudine has a frontage of ninety feet in Null
berrv-st and runs through the block 10 Mott-st-
between Houston and Blocker SIS Inc ouhdihs
WAS first occupied by the police IN 1907 ana III tne
following wear IL was the storm centre OF the great
Draft Riots in the suppression OF when the ponce
won enduring glory
Commissioner Partridge. arguing foE police
na,,ca at ,ne Acre Square says the present build
Ing In uulherrv-st Is inadequate for the proper
transaction OF police business. and adus-
Recause of the age of the buildings. tde absence
~ hrenroof protection of records 20 'e
.na,. appliances for ponce service
Tic Iocarion 40 far removed from cen
tres and from the lines OF SIea1s nor,ant rassons
Tho sitv and for many other inlportdht rSaSoiS
t .he IIia Oa1arment should be provided with
bs,ter and more centrally located headquarters
Tho block at Long Acre Square which the COM
missioner wants the city 20 acquire oh4S
five CITY lots while the Mulherr!-s'- heduquaI 'erS
rs .,eht citv lots but property in Broadway
-. - thar property in Mulberry and Mott SITS
The uptown has froniages OF W reef IN bioad
way 800 feet IN Seventh-ave-; - ieSt ~
would cost the city about sl.o'o'oo 10 acquire the