New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-27
CONFIDENT OF
FAVORABLE ACTION
Seventh Ward Owners Are
Against City Encum-
branCe Yard Plan.
MANY PERSONS AT
HEARING LAST WEEK
Madison Street Block, Under
Bridge, Would Make Ideal
Playground.

Final action on the proposed plan
for the use of the block bounded by
| Madison, Monroe, Pike and Market SITS.
as an encumbrance yard is expected
to be taken next Thursday by the City
Plan Committee of the Board of Est-
mate. President McAneny. chairman
of the Board of Aldermen, is chairman
of that committee. About a week ago
the matter was referred to that COM
mittee by Mayor Mitchell. whose action
put Il stop to the work of preparing
the block in question for use by the
city as an encumbrance yard.
Property owners of the 4th and 7th
wards feel that the City Plan Commit
tee will never permit such a yard to
be put in the centre Of one of the
most thickly populated parts of old
Manhattan, where adequate public
breathing places and Fairgrounds Cor
children are sorely needed. 1t is
hoped that the city will eventually
change the block bounded by Madison,
Monroe, Pike and Market SITS. into a
place where the youngsters of the
neighborhood can safely enjoy them
selves after school and IN the vacation
days in the summer months. Neigh
borhood owners have advanced many
arguments 70 show that the proposed
yard would work great injury 70 the
entire district. causing big deprecia-
ton of values TO property owners.
Nicholas F. Walsh, Michael J. Ma
honey, Mrs. Reilly and many other
persons who have been prominent in
the movement to prevent the carrying
out Of the remembrance yard plan
were present at the hearing on the
subject before the City Plan Commit
tee in the Council Chamber, City Hall.
last Friday.
The speakers told the city plan COM
mttee that bordering the proposed
yard is the most thickly populated
tenement house section IN the lower
East Side. and within few hundred
feet of the yard are two OF the largest
public schools in the city. On all sides
Of the proposed corporation yard site,
where would be stored old pushcarts,
signs and other material gathered from
The lower sections Of the city, are
number of big tenements in when are
housed many families. Above the prop
,rty is the bridge span, over which
arge numbers of trucks, cars and pc
lestrians travel each day. The resi-
tents of the district are not the most
,areful citizens in the city, il was con-
ended. In fact, from the destruction
which has been visited on the span.
which is not very long in use, and the
arelessness that is evident on all sides,
he placing of signboayds and other
ebris collected by the city authori.
les under this bridge is a step taken
,ithout much consideration. Fire in
he ward would throw the entire section
nto a panic, which would be justified
y the clcseness OF the tenements 10
ne city's junk shop. On the south
ide the wall which would close the
ard would shut of the light Of four
'indoNs in the first floor fiat, which
as the least light Of any apartment
4 building. "lf an owner tried to do
his said one of the opponents OF the
Ian, "Dr. Goldwater. of the Board of
Icalth, would send him TO jail. yet the
lty is seeking 20 do what IL would not
ermit an individual to do-rob one
light and endanger the property ani
YES of an entire section"
Real estate men claim the site Is too
aluable TO be put TO the use planned.
he property fronts 200 feet in Mon
be ST., 25O feet deep and 200 feet in
.adison 81. The city paid on an aver
&c of $4,000 lot for this property
hen acquired for the bridge approach.
o-day the land is worth as much as
10000. even though the height II
iiiding that could be put on II would
limited to not more than .hree
cries: Figuring the property at Si6.-
20 a lot. the slte for the corporation
ara Is worth $500 a property far
20 valuable for the storing Of debri.
'om the street.