New-York tribune., 1905-01-22
BRONX POORLY TREATED.
Il. Z. DaUis Says Report Pays Too
Little attention to That Borough.
tNe Editor Of The sr,,.ii,rnn

To tie Editor of The Tribune
St: The report Of the New-York City Improve
melt Commission contains a number OF admirable
suggestions. some. at least. of which ought to be
undertaken at Naturally and properly the
commission devotes most of its attention to Man
haitian, and some of the suggestions for that bor-
ough affect The Bronx well. The proposed
parkway along West 1S1st-st. from Fort Washing
ton Park on the Hudson to WASHINGTON Bridge
and thence to the Grand Boulevard and Con-
course in The Bronx. and the suggested connec-
ton between Fffth-ave. and the Concourse are
both excellent IDEAS; so also is the suggestion that
the approaches to the Hudson Memorial Bridge on
both sides be reserved as parks. The proposed
open air arena for great public athletic contests
at the Bronx end of the Washington Bridge is
grand conception, though it may appear to
as too faneiful for this age. Such recommended
tions affect The Bronx will. l believe receive
hearty approval here. The report is somewhat
disappointing however. because so little consid-
Grafton hasbeen accorded TO this borough although
lhe commission gave a public hearing here and
many Suggestions We're offered by the North Side
Board or Tra4e and other civic bodies But per-
maps these are still under consideration by the
commission. for heir subject is a very large one
ms Dofough ffers exceptional opportunities for
sion Here 1t isstiI possible to profit By the ex-
petlehces piti OF oldg communities and avoid their
@ ahes- me 0tcial map of the district of Ches-
yer. an undevel'led section of the city larger
thah Manhattan lsland. is considered by those
% WIo nave mace itudy of the modern idea of the
Which ofauIuI H tb TO 6e the very anuthesis of 1t.
comprehensive IAN ennbra cing r,ar-v bsa,,tifISi
Ideas and approvedoy civic bodies and citzens 80
otcially approved for this very territory nv, me
Board of Public improvements on A1eust n -1sag
Other suggestion which were offered b,I tbe
North Side Board Of Trade and other oreTs piza1
tlons We're the beafifying of the main avenue OF
approach by way the Third Avenue Bridge bv
the creation OF u public park from the Harlem
River to 13Sth-st nd from 81 ave 10 Ti1coIn
ave-; triangular psks at diagonal street inter
sections; acquiremet OF river bank reservafions
or picnic grounds alng the Bronx and Hutchinson
RIVERS and Westc1ster Creek; the extension of
Rlyerside Drive thbugh The Bronx to Yonkers:
a Sound shore drtvgfrOm Fort Schuyler to Pelham
Bay Park; a SOuIt to Hudson boulevard along
the northery cit line, much of which is
already public prQerty In Van Cortlandt and
Pelham Bay parks the widening and conversion
or Sedgwick-ave. ino parkway from Macomb's
Dam Bridge to Vh Cortandt Park; the logical
ana symmetrical ktension of Crotona Parkway
70 BOSTON Road: the proposed Joseph Rodman
Drake and Gouveueur Morris parks. bubble na
at the various pots jutting out into the Sound;
the location of ciTIes or squares main railway
stations in the bOTugh and the establishment of a
civic centre. with krand basins lagOons or water
ways as surroundings for public buildings, and
systematic tree plnting to be done by the city
the streets are Regulated and graded
ALERT F. DAVIS,
EX-PresidentOf North Side Board of Trade