New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Brooklyn and Queens Will
Be More Closely Linked
by Avenues.
CONSTRUCTION TASK
WILL OCCUPY YEARS
Tentative Maps Drawn by City
Engineers - Project Will
Benefit Every Zone.

Rrooklyn and Queens will be connected
hv 2 series of systematic highways &C
oording to plans that have just been ma
,pred by committees of engineers and
CONSERVATIVES OF big holdings in the two
boroughs. With the realization of the
contemplated traffic highways the two
torouchs will become as closely allied,
Geographically, as are the ,Boroughs OF
Manhattan and The Bronx.
So gigantic is the proposed undertaking
IN its scope that the engineers who are
working on it realize that the proposition
is one that will require years TO bring
% an ultimate fulflment. If the prop
ertv owners do not undertake this gi
cantic proposition it is realized that the
CITY authorities will have to do il, but
they will not do so until the emergency
has arrived, and then the time cannot be
given TO il that can be If started at this
time.
With the cooperation Of leading men
of the borough and the support Of Bor-
ough President Pounds, Edward II. Ben
nett has prepared the tentative plans In
the Borough Of Brooklyn. The work in
oueens has thus far been done under the
direction Of Robert ". Higbe, president
Of the Chamber of Commerce. He has
received valuable assistance from the en-
slneers Of the Typographical Bureau and
Borough President Connolly.
Provisions in the plans have been made
for close union between the industrial
centres Of the two boroughs adjacent to
Nswtown Creek and the East River front,
together with connection to the east
wsrd with the southern section OF Queens
by way Of the Rockaway turnpike lead
ing out TO Long Island. In tile first OF
these connections, that between the in
dustrial districts. the Brooklyn plan pro-
yides for two distinct series Of streets
and highways, each having its focal
point at the Vernon avenue vidduct.
which connects the great Eastern district
manufacturing section with the Hunters
Point section of Long Island City. At
The present time there is a constant in
accommodation between these two dis
tricts but this is greatly hampered oy the
congestcd street conditions in Brooklyn
In the second OF these connections the
Brooklyn plan provides for connection
out Euclid and Jamaica avenues to FL
dert Lane and the Rockaway road IN
Queens
Already some Of the streets that will
work out with this plan have been laid
out in queens. where such progress has
been made that last week application
was made TO The Supreme Court for the
appointment Of street opening coinmls-
sioners 10 take the necessary land for
the wideninss proposed. The most i'm
pOrtant extension upon which the ap-
pOintment Of commissioners has been
asked is that OF the widening Of the
RockaVay turnpike 10 100 feet from the
Brooklyn conduit line 20 Hook Creek, a
distance Of three miles. 4 further inn
pltNem planned by the Queens Topo-
graphical Bureau is to have this great
highway widcned as it extends north
westerly toward Brooklyn 10 10 feet
IRON its intersection with Liberty ave-
nue.. and then 100 feet 10 its intersection
with Atlantic avenue and from that
point westerly eighty feet to the borough
line.
Afnong the other applications is one OF
avenue TO eighty feet from the Brooklyn
borough line TO Van Wyck avenue,
distance of TWO and half miles. This
widening IS 10 permit Of the extension OF
the elevated line from Brooklyn direct 10
the biz terminal station Of the Long
Island railroad at Jamaica, thus giving
direct connection between tho southern
side Of Long Island and Brooklyn.
A connection has also been planned be-
t@een the Queens boulevard, the great
central highway OF the borough, and the
hortheaStern section Of Queens by a Sc
ues Of highways, and among the con-
hectins links are the ones between Corona
avenue and Hampton street and Rodman
, street, Gerry avenue from MARROW avenue
10 Corona avenue; Clark avenue, from
Rust street to Perry Ivenue; Rust street,
hom Clinton avenue 10 Flushing avenue,
and Perry avenue, from Rust 10 Clark
street.