The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02
UPTOWN DOCKS PROPOSED
SHIPPING FtCILITIES ron THE
DlCkN ~ SECTION.
The Waterfront Improvement Takes 20
h, Doek Comm issIoner .Touik lns o.
rEed on the Ground That % VIII
Boom Build ms ln Farth~-t Manhattan

Frpm the way things hook now the
development NJ the Dyckmln waterfront
which has been under consideration for
years, will ~ taken up before long After
consultation with abutting property own
ers and local taxpayers associations
Dock Commissioner Tomkins has evolved
plan 81 Improvement which ~ accepta bile
Co IA" various interests affected The
plan was submitted 20 the Sinking Fund
Commission on September q and as soon
a. this Is adopted by the city authorities
there will 10 nothing 10 prevent tho work
from icing ~ irts.d AZ once
The plan calls for the Improvement ~
IN" river from Shernans Creek or 2Oist
street north To KinKsbridge. a distance II
about a mile The project evolves the
widening 81 Ninth avenue, the erection
81 a bulkhead and the construction 81
nine new piers.
Tn. widening Of Smith avenu" from the
creek north 10 It's junction with Broadway
will 10 along its aasterly line. IL ~ pro-
posed to add fifty feet between ,oI-t and
2Osth streets. and from there on forty feet
This will make Ninth avenue a I3O foot
thoroughfare
Tn. buIkh-ad will Le built along the
Iss, THIS - At a distanc" 81 from 25O to
81 feet east q the easterly line Of Ninth
avenue A. Pod street It extends out
bout $50 feet and from there on 5so feet
The min. piers will 10 located a. eolrh.
2Ojth. 2U7th. 2O9th 2Igih. 2IIth. 2I?rh.
2I1th and nah streets. Zach pier will
H. ~ f--i wide. except the one AZ 2O7th
str,-.i. which will 10 only rs feet wide
and which will run north from IN" TINT
y"rslty Heights Bridge. allowing q basin
to ~ made between 7u7th and ?nSth streets
Their. will also he basins on either sid.
81 Inc pisr nj the foot Of 2Oath street one
will extend south 10 7OSd street. and IN.
oihar north to 2O5th street Berwr.'n
1Osth and a9th II r'-.ts there will h. another
baain.
Tn. Improvement ~ the waterfront
means much 90 the DyCkman section
which h short ~ docking facilities On thu. .
Hudson River sid. IN" steep decline and
the Riversid" Drive have prevent a the.
building of piers while along the Harl"m
th. Speedway makes dock improvements
impossible from Sherman's tr-ak south
to I5jth street II - thought that the
sinking Fund Commission will APPROX.
Commissioner Tomkin s' = plan a. ,Iorking
fariliti - would enable structural materials
20 10 brought m. thereby promoting ~. /.
building ~ ~ the section and the erection p
~ new taxable values
Another Improvement which will max.
the section attractive To builders ~ the
trolley ine which the Union Railway ~
across the Harlem from
Foriham Heights 10y way ~ the Cniver.
sIty He Ghts Bridge This will continue
forth street under the subway .
station a Tenth avenue and through .
Emerson street O. Broadway where ~
will terminate for the present The /
tracks are now being laid. and Ivy Novem-
ler the company exTeCts io have cars /
running over the route.
several builders have scsn tho impor- /
Lanoe of the new line and have started :
building operations along the route
Already ihrn~ taxpayers and two apart |
mont hoIsez have hem sPeS ted on Tenth !
avenue. and on Emerson street two
elevator apartment houses have just been
hnished