New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-04
NEW |. |. LINES EXPECTED.
Many Speculations Ouer Result Of
NeU Tunnels and Bridge.

Property owners in the Borough Of Queens are
struggling to learn what lines Of transport alton
result from the building Of the Pennsylvania
and Belmont tunnels and the Blackwell's Island
Bridge Recent sales of land are taken as indica-
ton that many routes to be opened within
a few years The Blackwers Island Bridge is to
facilities for. trains and trolIeys, but whether
Manhattan lines will cross the bridge queens
Borough lines enter Manhattan no one seems to
know
few days ago II announced that appca-
ton would be made to the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment for a franchise to run q road from
the Manhattan terminal Of the bridge Little Neck
and Oyster Bay. No one identified with the Long
Island Railroad or the New-York and Queens
County Railway Company knows anything about
the corporation that is to seek the new franchise
The company is described the Central Long
Island Railroad Company. Concident with that
announcement work began to restore the right of
way OF the old A. T. Stewart railroad which ran
from Winfield Flushing and then along the back
bone of Long Island to Garden City and Babylon
The old road is owned by the Long Island Railroad
Company. but its officials deny that it is to be
stored They state that the right of way Is being
cleared up and is be fenced in under a new law
requiring railroad corporations to protect such
rights. large quantity Of new rails arrived at
Flushing few days ago. and Were delivered along
the line of the Stewart road in that place. and still
the railroad officials deny that the line is 10 be re-
built.
There is talk in the Borough of Queens that the
Stewart road is to be rebuilt and equipped with
electricity and used line to to Belmont
Park the new racetrack built near Queens Many
property owners believe that despite denias. the
Long Island Railroad has plan restore ---e
Stewart road in connection with their other
branches
Purchases of unmproved property near the Long
Island City terminus of the bridge indicate that the
land is for railroad purposes for options have been
obtained a strip extending distance out into
the borough in direct line from the bridge. Fred
erick A Phelps is the representative of the syndi-
cate acquiring the land.
There those interested in the development Of
Queens Borough transportation facilities who are
willing to believe that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company is In the deal get line the Black
wells Island Bridge. That company has two lines
one ending at Greenpont and Bradley ayes, in the
Bssvile section of Long Island City, and the other
at Penny Bridge in Laurel HILL and il would not be
hard to acquire private right of way extend the
tracks of both to Thomson-ave. and Van Dam-st.
where the viaduct extension of the Blackwells
Island bridge is TO end. All the unimproved prop
erty in that section has recently changed hands or
is held under options. The Belmont syndicate has
for some time been trying 10 get consents for
trolley line in Thomson-ave. Long Island City, and
the Hoffman Boulevard. in Newtown. That would
give them a short route to Jamaica. the Hoffman
Boulevard being extension of ThOnson-ave. and
extending Jamaica
Some years ago there a movement to build
railroad along the north shore of Long Island
from Astoria TO Northport. The scheme was how
ever abandoned The proposed route Of the road
from the Manhattan terminal OF the bridge Is about
the same as that mapped out for the old project