New-York tribune., 1910-10-09
NEW FIELD FOR INVESTORS
Approval of Utica Ave. Subway
Stirs Real Estate Men.

With the approval Of the Utica avenue
subway route by the Public Service Com
mission and the Board of Estimate. the
attention of real estate investors and build
ers is being attracted TO a section of Brook
lyn that makes a very interesting field for
study. in view OF the big improvements
that are planned by the city and the fed
eral government
The Jamaica Bav improvements which
the city has started in connection with the
War Department will take care Of the
Brooklyn shore of the bay first. The work
now under way consists of a dixie on the
Brooklyn shore from the entrance Of Rock
away Inlet st Barren Island around 70
Spring Creek Basin. This viii make the
section adjacent TO Flatbush the first to
receive the full benefit Of the Improvement
The Public Service Commission and the
Board of Estimate have this fact in view
in advancing the plans for the Utica ave
nue. subway
The commission in its report to the Board
Of Estimate SAYS:
Utica avenue runs into Flatbush avenue
al a point near Jamaica Bay, where II Is
proposed that the new line as now laid oqI
should stop. Future developments VIII
show whether II should some day be ex-
tended toward Jamaica Bay or toward
COneN Island
The assessment provisions inserted in
the rapid transit act in 1903 appear TO have
induced many property owners in the
southeastern part Of the Borough of Brook
lyn to seek the advantage of rapid transit
railroad construction by that method. On
May 81 a petition signed by 1,G02 property
owners was presented to the commission
Tor an elevated route through Utica ave-
rue. south of Eastern Parkway. TO be con-
Structed on the assessment plan. On June
16, az hearing largely attended, only three
property owners protested against the as
sessment plan
Such rapid transit line will have the
following remarkable advantages. II would
extend from the Hudson River TO Jamaica
Bay and yet its length would be only II. y
miles II would connect directly with the
18th street district of Manhattan, with
Williamsburg. upper Brooklyn. and with an
immense area Of inexpensive land lying
south Of Eastern Parkway.
At regular express speed OF twenty-six
miles an hour trains could run from the
corner of Broadway and 18th street in Man
haitian to Eastern Parkway in fourteen and
a half minutes The route would not only
IA ke people working in the 14th street dis
trict directly 10 inexpensive homes without
carrying them through downtown Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn Moreover, the distance
would be shorter than the present routes
! The section in the vicinity Of Utica ave
nue. and Flatbush avenue is already a field
of active building operations. Utica ave
/ nue. ana avenue N rev DOCKS from Ine
/ terminus Of the proposed subway, is al
ready an important traffic centre. II i:
the terminus Of the Flatbush avenue and
Nostrand avenue lines of the Brooklyn
| Rapid Transit system and also of the new
Utica avenue line connecting with the ReiC
| avenue service at Church avenue. There il
| also a transfer service from Utica avenut
and Avenue \ to Bergen Beach.
| The growth of F1atbush. owing 10 the fire
quent trolley service over these lines. is il
this direction. and builders are taking ad
| vantage OF the lower land values TO secur
a supply of lots, in expectation of the NOR
rapid growth of this section in the futur
that will follow IL the wake of the Janlaici
| Bay Improvement and rapid transit lines.