New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-02
GROUP OF CITY OFFICES.
CAMPANILE $50 FEET.
LindenthaIs Plans for Ending the
Bridge Congestion.


Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal's plays for a
new bridge terminal and municipal buildings
submitted yesterday 20 the Board of Estimate,
co-7prehena among other things. the eventual
removal from City Hall Park of the Postoffice
end The building of a campane, or tower office
huildirg Just north of Chambers at Centre
8, forty-three stories in height. reaching an
altitude Of $50 feet Generally speaking, the
.~ritec+,re conforms to that of the new Hall
of Records. and the transformation of City
r7au square with all the buildings. save the
cit, Hail alone removed from it, is wonder
provoking.
The plans are the joint product of Mr. Lin
6enthal Henry F. Hornbostel and George B.
Post. The estimated cost of the new buildings
IS put by Mr.. Lindenthal at S9,OO0Ooo. but city
engineers who looked over the figures yesterday
said that II would cost much more than that TO
acquire the ground and build the new buildings
- saw nothing about the ultimate removal of
the Postofioe.
The report embodying the plan says:
e R5g S9gon must ST the hsude sfpns fe sa0S Pif0s for for
tie elevated trains over the Brooklyn Bridge; me
Tosd Which oyeraps The present bridge 5F, terminal
sLa a I trains. also connection with the sta
ton Of the subway coming from Elm-st and going
posed S43N49 anSnectinns 10 the proposed sub
CO. 60 oming from Park Row diving under William
- and going down Nassau-st. ,,,,. ,,.5
tracks fcrming loop with the elevated tracks back
oMyn M o the BTo9 IN Bage T6aF Of the Broe
IN Bridge: additional loops 6en in alb for the
55 81 5a0 CONNECTION for wagons coming from the
bridge AND {grgnF 20 nS9 Re enTance Of the al rooEiyS
Bridge, from which arcade the staTways l to 5d aad
from the different stations named can be reaHnea @
broad stairway approach end NlaqucI rom +t ~
level from which again stairways lead up to the
second station level and also down 10 the street
.eT her Unn0 10
The entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge has long
r9akeshift structures. The City Hall station
can be made the means for correcting t9is ms et5i
non were carefully studied and an S attempt PTS IS
~ ~ IIsm ~ Fsca-9saT1 immediate neighbor For
Hornbostel as the designing architect and tnat OF
In fheir professional judgment it appeared wise to
81 the bridge station not only in relation to the
new Han Of Records but to gIolP I, OF ,Pir P89nE
sII sTtisf,c opinion seems 10 have located along
tSe nortbern Side of ChambeTs-st facing City Hall
Park and extending from Broadway TO Centre.st;
plans Herewith submitted to you: The bridge sta
p6ii5Hg on the right the Hail Of Records at one
end. the courthouse at the other; the new
T6e I'D 4eRarsbIe 3gi5i City y Hall in the centre Of
Han Park from Which every other euiiqiag m Is re-
tlral rnagnihcence rivalling the famous Piace de
don: d IRa sehoss Platz in Berlin or the tn
haus Platz in Vienna; and has more than twice
The bridge station which extends into the base
OF a as p fa fst %fn f the new new Ha Of Records
is ost urgent neeSsity ana & Snoqia @ os eniis
Bridge-that S. within three years Ihat Would
require the work on the foundations 70 be com
Ynenced without delay because. as the work must
be carried on without interruption to traft1c, the
speed will be only half that possible with an en-
tireIy building.
THE BRIDGE STATION PROPER
The several parts of the station and their ca
pacity will be here briefly described:
Basement-The present subway station. With the the
present entrances and exits from the streets VIII
viii be given. and additional stairs viii connect
11bare viii therefore, be three subway sta
ions in one combination Passengers from any
one will be able easily TO reach the other SUB. D.
al spacious. and the stairways wide and Of easy
With prompt movement of cars on all subway
lines about one hundred thousand passengers an
Under this basement will be located sub base
rent containing al the necessary machinery for
failahg. 8 a5i5 and for @ the eievstors boilers etc
bridged over by the station building. SURFACE car
racks rearranged for easier Gonnecton OF lines
on Centre-st; with those on Park Row William
s is straighteped go it may @ form 4 continuous US
placed in arcades, from which the stairways lead
10 the first level above. On this floor are the ten
room at the ten trolley loops (Which are spaced
81 fSef 6a @ of the be crowds than at the
four loops which but 20 feet apart.
First Floor-ThiS is set aside for the Manhattan
Elevated Railroad terminal for its Third and Sec
ond ave trains. the four tracks and five platforms
admitting Of sixty siX-car trains arriving and de-
psrting every hour, about 5000 passengers ar
irving and $1,000 passengers departing each hour.
Incoming and outgoing passengers do not come into
collision, having separate platforms and stairways
Connection with the trolley loops by stairways
also with City Hall Park by gallery and bridge
over Park Row.
second Floor-Ths shall remain what 1t is at
present, namely. the terminal for the Brooklyn
Bridge trains, with tail switch curving into the
station for the Manhattan Bridge. and having loop
-e0r91v 1Tyyro in fac a
elevated trains from Manhattan Bridge Trains
can pass either way through the stations as
through trains, return over the same bridge by
which they came. The capacity Of each station Is
sixty trains Of six each, in each direction per
hour or 5000 passengers arriving and 6000 de-
parting hourly from the two stations. The stair
ways and platforms will be proportioned to that
traffic.
rive Ofice Floors-Above the station floors
five Office floors of 5000 square feet EACH or about
$4,000 square feet together, including the Campanile
I'D the roof line OF the bridge station. which Is
q level with the roof line Of the Hall Of Records
The in which the bridge station will serve
also s terminal for the Manhattan Bridge and fol
the subway connection with that bridge and witt
the Williamsburg Bridge will Le discussed in
ton Of CONNECTING the four East River bridges witt
the passenger transportation systems on both sides
of the river.
The city is now paying rent for department Of
Offices are widely separated. and communicated
fetVeen depar tneents is much delayed. Moreover
of the department Offices oVercrowded, anC
should have at twice much The
the fullest and cheapest measure, at the additona
cost of about $L5OOp).