New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
HAVE OBTAINED
VALUABLE RIGHTS
Public Service Gets Free
Many Station Entrances
on New Routes.
SIXTY ADDITIONAL
CONTRACTS PENDING
Agreements Also Include Stair
way and Beam Rights for
Dual Subway.

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Up to the present time the Public
Service Commission has obtained from
property owners. by private negotia-
ton and without the payment OF any
money consideration, the rights for l32
station entrances, stairway consents
and beam right agreements in connec-
ZION with the dual system subway worh,
and that negotiations are penang Iot
sixty additional entrances
II has been the policy of the com
mission from the beginning OF the duaI
system work TO obtain, wherever Pos
/ eible without expense to the clty' inc
RIGHTS to construct entrances TO sun
wav stations within the bulidlhB III r,ne
rather than on the sidewalks; inns
has been possible in many cases by Iea-
son of the desire of property o|hSI'
TO have such entrances IN thelr pun
ircs or because they desired certain
,n"r57,,;loges in the line of show windows,
etc. between station or stair plaIlV no
and their premises. II Is only wheIc
sucb consents cannot be obtained eX-
cont nv purchase that the commission
has located such entrances IN the
streets. L.,ds
such consents fall under three heads
-, stairway consents, which con-
vev TO the city the right to construct
n stairway in front of certain DulId
inrs; beam right agreements Wnlcn
give the city the right TO use piI'o1'
wall in which TO rest the beams SEP
porting stairways, and agreement io III
approaches through buildings Dy "h'Sn
the owners Of property give the Guy inc
right TO construct entrances VI "P
proaches through the buildings.
same Of the principal properties as to
which such rights have Deeh oO'"''''N
by the commission are; r
ON lines for operation by the inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company; "a,
Adams Building, Seventh av: ana l4lh
e. southeast corner Grand Central
Terminal. r,.4.o
Seventh av. and ADD ST.; northwest
Nursery and Child's Hospital, Lex
incton av. and 5lst ST, southeast
corner.
Bloomingdale's, Lexington av.
Association for Improved instruction
Of Deaf Mutes, Lexington ay. ana ooth
ST.. southwest corner
New York Founding Hospital, Lex
ington av. and 68th ST., northeast
corner. ,d
German Hospital, Lexington av' ana
nth St, southwest corner.
Blimm Memorial Church, Lexington
av and l03d ST., southwest corner.
On lines for operation by the New
York Municipal Railway Corporation
Brooklyn Rapid Transit:
30 Broad Street Building.
J Mill prf1dfup BROAD st.
Morgan Building, Broad and Wall sts.
Wuks Building. Broad and Wall SIS.
Now York Stock Exchange Building:
Daniels Department Store, 8tn 81. ana
/ Broadway. northwest corner. 49,,
Wanamaker Department store, oth
/ 81. and Broadway, northeast corner.
Sinclair Building, Sth st. and Broad
way. D.oI
Bartholdi Building, Odd St and
! Broadway, southeast corner. 49,,
/ Gilsey House, Broadway and 2oth ST.
Hotel Breslin, Broadway and 25th ST.
Northwest corner saith ST. and Broad
way.
Hotel Woodward southwest corner
/ Seventh av. and 55th 81.
Carnegie Hall, southeast corner
Seventh av. and 57th ST.
Plaza Hotel. 59th st. and Fifth av.
Fountain House, Flatbush aVp
In addition to the above privileges,
which affect only the new lines, the
commission in the last year has also
obtained rights for station approaches
on the Manhattan subway as
Approach. Veronica Realty Corpora
ton Building. Columbus Circle
Approach. Fitzgerald Building, south
west corner Broadway and 43d ST.
Approach, Adams Express Building,
57-61 Broadway.
Approach. New Equitable Building.
Approach. A. |. Namm Department
Store, Fulton ST., Brooklyn.
Approach, Metropolitan Life lnsur-
ance Building.
Negotiations are pending for the
construction Of station approaches
through the new Western Union Tele-
graph Building. the Woo,worth Build
ING. the Vanderbilt Building at Forty
second Street and Vanderbilt Avenue;
the Grand Central Terminal. the Penn
svlvania Railroad Terminal and the
Heidelberg and Brokaw buildings in
Forty-second Street.
The Commission has removed side
walk kiosks and substituted building
approaches in the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Building, at Twenty-thlrd
Street and Fourth Avenue; in the Long
Acre Building, in Broadway near For,
tv-second Street. and at the Grand
Central Terminal. The kiosks were re
moved and stairways at the building
line constructed also at the southeast
corner of Fourth Avenue and Twenty
third Street. In the near future kiosks
will be removed and building approach
es substituted on the north side Of
Columbus Circle, between Central
Park West and Broadway. and the new
Western Union Building at Broadway
and Deg Street.
The work of obtaining such consents
is in charge Of Edward Riegelman, as
sistant counsel to the Commission,
who was recently appoited one of a
committee to look into the matter of
getting such rights on William Street
subway.