New-York tribune., 1913-11-09

downtown tracks or the elevated line In
order TO avoid a grade crossing.
The present trolley railway station for
the cars that operate across the bridge
is below the surface to the east or Second
avenue II must be removed In order that
the subway trains 10 operate over the
bridge may enter and leave through osth
and 6Oth streets. Entrances and exits OF
the new underground station VIII be In
the park.
THE Manhattan Plaza OF greensboro
Bridge is destined to be one OF the I'M
portant traffic centres OF the city. sald
Bridge Commissioner O'Keeffe. There
will be rapid transit lines in 59th and Goth
streets. each having a station at LeXing-
ton avenue, only one block west or Ihird
avenue There will be a subway line op-
Grating through Lexington avenue. and
this also will have station between o5th
and 6Oth streets. but one block west OF
Third avenue on Third avenue at pres
ent are operating elevated railway trains
with a station Immediately adjacent to
the proposed bridge plaza. On Second
avenue at present are operating elevated
railway trains. The present station on
! this line is at 57th street, near the pro-
posed bridge plaza"
The Second Avenue Elevated Railway
will also serve the elevated railway trains
operating across the bridge and through
Queens TO both Astoria and Corona. With
all this rapid transit traffic. augmented by
the trolley traffic brought to Manhattan
across the bridge by the railway com
, panies operating in Queens and by the
, Third avenue system operating from Man
! haitian across the bridge into Queens, IL
would be possible within an area Of two
blocks OF the plaza to reach railway
lines covering the whole of greater New
| York.
| 1T has been our endeavor 10 treat this
proposed plaza and terminal In large
] broad, comprehensive manner, not only
providing for traffic needs but also afford
| ing opportunity 10 beautify the locality
From the bridge plaza at the Queens
end rapid transit lines will radiate In all
directions. To the north will be three
track elevated line through Jackson ave-
nue. TO Astoria, TO be operated jointly Dy
the Interborough and Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit companies. To the east, across
| Diagonal street and over the Sunnyside
wards of the Pennsylvania Railroad TO the
great union station at Woodsde. three
track line will be operated by the same
two companies, and 1t will run out Roose-
Welt avenue through the Barclay-Dugro
tract Elmhurst and Corona. To the
south will be the extension OF the Stein
way tunnel from its mouth at Van Alst
and 4th streets, TO be operated by the In
I.,, x.ytt ,, ttuo hxraN NG
in Manhattan, also the extension of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ele-
waited lines in Brooklyn, forming direct
north-and-south route to Coney Island.
To the west, across the bridge into Man
haitian, will run the trains of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company into the
59th street, Broadway and Seventh ave-
nue. subway, and also the extensions Of
the Second avenue elevated lines OF the
Interborough system.
These vast rapid transit projects will
| transform Queens both for business and
! for multi-family homes, especially in the
| Elmhurst section the new rapid transit
zone There Is no doubt that this Queens
territory will become at once available
for the construction Of apartment houses
and that IT will attract the main part Of
the overflow from the crowded home dis
tricts of Manhattan. People must clear
their minds once and for all of the idea
that this new territory is available for
small private dwellings 1t has passed
into the apartment house form Of I'm
provement and is becoming established
upon a solid investment basis
Apartment building operations have
started already through the territory in
Elmhurst, just beyond Long Island city.
On the greensboro Corporation tract
alone are four stations of the dual rapid
transit lines. Jackson avenue is the CEN
ire OF activity there just now. The new
| buildings are of the five story type, OF at
tractive exterior, with apartments of four
and FIVE rooms One has two stores and
nineteen four-room apartments above
each TO rent at $l9 10 SIS a month. Ad-
Joining houses of five stories, facing west
along 25th street, are devoted 10 five-room
apartments, two on each floor. with
rentals running FROM s2s to $2s month.
Negotiations are in progress for supply
ing building and permanent loans for
onerations in this district Ii Is probable
that the increase OF population there
during the coming few years will be far
greater than in any other section of the
metropolitan district
/