New-York tribune., 1906-03-06
HARLEM TO CONEY ISLE.
TRIP IN FORTY MINUTES.
Rapid Transit Commission Recon-
mends Route for sS, 900. 900 SubScay.

The Rapid Transit Commission yesterday IN
q formal communication 10 the Board OF EsH-
mate and Apportionment. recommended foui
track subway branching from the Fourth ave
,lue-Fort Hamilton line at seth street brooh-
iyn and running subway 10 soth street anu
Bay s5th street, in Unionville. and theh as aii
elevated system across the low lying ground at
,be edge Of C;-avesend into Stlwen avenue. and
6own StilIwell avenue to Surf avenue. in the
heart of the amusement district, in the West
End The subway will cost about ss.oOO,OOO.
Fxpress trains will make the run from points
in Manhattan to Fourth and Atlantic avenues
in Brooklyn and then down Fourth avenue over
the route Just decided upon al a speed equaI 10
the express service I'm the subway. Probably the
frip will be made from Harlem TO Coney lsiahd
an about forty minutes The route as decided
upon taps the Borough Park. Bensonhurst. Bath
Beach, Blythebourne. Martense. Lefferts Park
and Homewood sections. and will give the peo-
ple OF those localities a much improved service
Whether the Belmont interests build the
Fourth avenue subway TO Coney Island or not
the Rapid Transit Commission expects TO ar
range a traffic agreement by which. or the pay
ment of an extra fare. through trains will be
run from The Bronx 10 Coney Island
In effect the new section will be an exten-
sion of the Fourth avenue and Fort Hamilton
subway. the plans for which We're approved by
and by the Mayor on July 2s. This last section
IS so planned that connections can be made with
the subway now under construction, and with
the Prospect Park extension heretofore author
ized and also with the Brooklyn and Manhat-
tan loop lines approved by the commission on
July IA last.
The official route as laid down by the commits
sion is as follows:
route the centre line Of which shall begin in
intersection OF Fourth avenue and 96th street
at which connections can conveniently be made
with another subway or other subways 70 De mere
after constructed running southerly under Fourth
avenue The saiG centre line OF the route hereby
erly. curNing under Fourth avenue and private
property 39th and private property again, to
street with the westerly line OF Fifth avenue
ming thence easterly under 10th street TO a point
al ne the intersection of 4oth street with the
easterlv Size Of Ninth avenue; curving thence
southeasterly and southerly under 40th street and
Of the westerly side of New-Ttrecht avenue with
the nOrtherly side of 4lst street. thence running
under and along New-Utrecht avenue in south
erly direction a point Immediately south OF its
intersection with Slst street thence curVlng SOUTH
easterly and easterly under private property, s4th
street private property again, Eighteenth avenue.
~ setb etrost betveen Eigbteenth and Nineteenth
,.ee1 paw esfh street and Fav 18th street where
ihe said route viii emerge from the surface and
continue thence upon a y1aduct structure, and from
the said point running southeasterly along and
ton OF S6th street with Bay street; and then
crossing southeasterly over private property,
point in Stwen avenue between its intersection
with S6th street and its intersection with Bay 4Sd
along Stillwell avenue and crossing the Gravesend
Ship Canal a bridge and continuing along Still
of the centre line Of Stiilweil avenue with the
southerly line Of Surf avenue (Coney Island).