The evening world., 1911-05-30
RAILROADS PLAN
|. TO GRAB STREETS
ST|RS VAN NEST
Proposed Yards Would Shut
of Section of City from
Bronx Park.
CITIZENS TO PROTEST.
Mass Meeting Called to Take
Action to Protect Rights
of Public.
CITIZENS TO PROTEST.

The attempt Of the New York. West.
chester and Boston Railway Company
to take possession OF two streets on the
e%asterlv side of Bronx Park for the pur.
pose OF establishing a storage yard for
cars has aroused thousands OF Ia xpavers
Of the Van Nest section to action Il IL
now the understanding that the railroad
people want TO create a freight yard
iISht up aginst Bronx Park ana thus cut
on That park from the people OF The
van Nest section except by a round.
about way. There IL also Indignation a,
the reported proposition TO esta hlish ,
bis freight yard In a distinctiyelv resi-.
dcnce district.
me railway company seeks 10 take
possession OF Adams street. a 5o-foo,
hlshway that has been in use for forty
years ana Bronx Park avenue. n 100.
root boulevard that has been mannad
ou' nut never opened. These streets run
from Morris Park venue TO Bronx Park
ana are about 200 feet apart.
Cut OF from Park.
me railroad management wants the
city TO give the corporation tbese two
streets and the ground between for
Instance OF 600 feet to the eastward q,
Bronx Park The plans contempl,te tho
''e't'oh or a big e~mbankment. vhicb
WOMB not only cut on the Van Ne.,
people from direct access TO tho, mart
would do away with a plan n, ,nroa
years standing to establish v-,a, sn.n
I've Known as the Van Nest entrance 70
bronN Park at a point on the wes,erIy
me OF the park between Adams stree,
and Brox Park avenue.
Inc opposition 20 the railroad scb.,o
IL practically unanimous. reu 80
cry owners close to the poln, coya,ad
ny the railroad company would lilo ;,
see Doth Adams street and Bronx par
avenue closed. because opening Pro,x
lark avenue and improving Adams
street VIII saddle assessments on ,he,r
holdings. However. the great m,ss a,
property owners IN the thickly se,t,ed
van Nest section are heartily in favor
OF keeping a way open to Bronx Par k
from their homes.
Want Street Kept Open.
The only other streets leading from
the Van Nest ne%ighborhood are one
hundred and Eightieth street IN tho
south, whion does not run directly 10
the park. and tnionport road. a third
OF a mile to the north of Bronx Park
avenue. Accessibility to Bronx Park
was one of the chief considerations
that drew to the n Nest section great
throngs of wage-earners who nut their
money into property and are strain
ing their our to pay for II.
These people fully realize the hene-
hts that will accrue to their property
from the building of the New York,
Westchester and Boston Railroad.
II IL far from their purpose to
hinder the railroad in It's plan for get
ting down into the Bronx from West
chester, hut the railroad seems to be
dead set upon a proposition which
Van Nest people believe to be unjust.
The residents of Van Nest are un-
alterably opposed to an embankment
such as the railroad plans contem-
plate. They would be willing to ALLOW
the company TO close one street or to
make their storage yard an orna-
mental elevated structure. suitable TO
the neighborhood, and allowing of free
passage underneath through one thor
oughfare or both.
Taxray ers associations have been
formed. church meetings have been held