Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-03
EXTENSION OF NEW YORK
AVENUE BOON TO REALTY
Wide Thoroughfare Will Pierce Undeveloped Sec
ton of Northeast, Connecting With
B1adensburg Road.

Washington is spreading out rapidly in
all directions. and its growth is in no
wise fully indicated by the steady increase
I'm the population as shown by the annual
police census. In some directions the
city is approaching the boundary line of
the District of Columbia, and bidding fair
to encroach upon the abutting territory
in the state of Maryland. In still other
directions, while the development has
been none the less well sustained during
recent years, the merely physical lack OF
streets and avenues and of the means Of
transportation have sufficed to retard the
upbuilding.
1t is evident, however, that this condi-
ton Is soon TO be remedied, because plans
are In course of preparation at the pres
ent time in the office of the street ex-
tension department of the engineering de-
partment of the District of Columbia
which throw open to settlement whole
sections of suburban land which have re-
manned for years as miniature farming
communities in the midst of the Capital
city. One of the most important of these
projects concerns the extension or New
York avenue northeast from, 4th street
to the Bladensburg road. The opening
of this thoroughfare has been long IN
contemplation. and when the act of Con-
gresS was passed providing for the new
Union station and the approach OF the
railway tracks to that terminal 1t was
provided that one of the bridges for street
crossings over the tracks should be placed
in the line OF what would be New YORK
avenue. At the time the bridge was con-
structed it opened upon an entirely I'M
developed section Of land with no street
connections. But all OF this Is TO be
changed as the street extension depart
ment carries into execution the commands
of one of the highway Improvement acts
passed by the last Congress.
Line of the New Avenue.
New York avenue from its present ter
minus at 4th street will cross the line, OF
what was Brentwood road before the
railway companies closed that thorough
fare and laid their tracks upon it, and
will extend in the line of the present New
York avenue as far as the intersection OF
that highway with the line of proposed
Montana avenue northeast. Because OF
the vide curve of the railroad tracks at
this point New York avenue Will trend
more to the south and at distance OF
100 feet from the railroad Will follow the
tracks to the crossing over bladehSpufs
road.
Just what this extension VIII mean TO
the vast tracts of land in the far north
eastern section of the District OF Co.
lumbia can best be appreciated ny refer
ence to map of this portion OF the
municipality. The laying of the railroad
lines through the section in a measure
retarded its growth. because several of the
natural approaches We're absorbed and
the land left without outlet to nearby
streets. New York avenue Will pierce
this whole section, and its opening Will
almost certainly be followed by the sub
division of several pieces of farm land
and their development into suburban
communities.
Included in the property to be improved
by the avenue extension is the Patterson
tract of about ninety-two acres, which
adjoins Kendall Green, and the tract