New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
POPULAR SECTION
OF KINGS HIGHWAY
Many Houses Being Built
in Vicinity of Brighton
Beach Line.
RESULTS OF LOCAL
BOARD OF TRADE
Active in Bringing About Big
Improvements-School Erect
ed by Father Hickey.

The section Of Kings Highway be-
tween the Brighton Beach Line and
Coney Island av. is among the most
active centres in the suburban part Of
Brooklyn. The highway is one of the
popular thoroughfares in Brooklyn and
is referred 10 for the first time in the
annals Of the county in 1886.
In 1854 Governor Stuyvesant called it
the Highway" In 1861 it went under
the name Of the Crossroads" a map
made in 1866 Of Flatlands and Graves
end referred 10 it as Kings Highway.
The original map Of the road as II was
in the olden days was destroyed IN the
Capitol fire al Albany, and the only
charts remaining of the road in the
period are COPIES from the original.
Along the section Of the Highway
from Coney Island av. to the Brighton
Il" the two story brick fathouse with
stores on the ground floor is the rule.
Most OF these shops are open at night
and the powerful lights from the show
windows add 10 the Illumination OF the
street lights Within Q distance OF
less than four blocks on the Highway
there are two theatres and one open
air place for moving pictures. Two OF
the largest grocery concerns IN the
greater city have stores there, and
within distance Of few hundred feet
there are no less than four delicates-
sen stores In fact all kinds of food
supplies can be purchased IN tins sec
ton Of the Highway.
The Kings Highway Board Of Trade
is an active civic organization IN TINS
section. II purposes to discuss the
needs Of the district. cooperate and
unite for effective results. Its oihcers
are William r. Bayes. president;
James a. Chalmers. first vice-presi-
dent: Louis Scherzinger. second vice
presiden', Louis A. Chapple, secretary;
John Is. Havilaud. treasurer. and
George A. Marshall, financial secre-
tary. The members of the executive
committee are Melville j. France. chair
man; Albert Charles Dixon. Frederick
&. jain, Walter p. Long trcct. j. r. II.
Quevedo and Manfred Rockefeller.
The greatest achievement the board
has accomplished is the per cent in
Stalmeut assessment law which was
drafted and fathcred by members of
the organization. This law. which be-
came effective on Nav II last, provides
mat whore any assessment for i'm
provement exceeds per cent of the
assessed valuation Of the land exclu
sSiVe OF the improvements the owner
mas the option OF having payment
spread over ten years on request by.
paving b per cent interest annually.
Inc board is now endeavoring TO
nave the express trains on the Brighton
Beach line stops at Kings Highway and
;Newkrk av on their way to the
eeach. The board was organized in
I'Vo, and meets the first Monday in
eaeh month az the Office of Mr.. Chal-
nmerS' ON Kings Highway, east of the
Drghton Beach station. Chief Engi-
neer 7. ). Fort of the Sewer Depart
ment viii address the meeting to-mOr-
row evening on The Sewer Situation
and What the Outlook Is for the Fut-
uie The board was instrumental in
SHhging about Public School 1853 and a
iioer unit portable school which is now
third 81.
me board played a prominent part
N bringing a modern fire department
guiding TO the section. and in 1907
started a sane and rational Fourth OF
Suly celebration, which has been car
NED on year after year since. A rep
ndesentative of the board visits the
sewer Bureau and Commissioner of
tuolc Works week in and week out,
besides attending meetings of the
board Of Estimate. The section has
sewers installed now awaiting oper-
avon Of pumping stations. Many of
we street Improvements have resulted
rom the boards efforts. The free
nnorary on Kings Highway. near the
ohghton Beach station, represents the
result Of three years untiring work
ana liberal expenditure of money by
The board.
This section Of Flstbush, which is
referred 10 as the scutherly end, is in
yhe OF the most convenient parts of
brooklyn, as il can be reached by the
brighton Beach line in thirty-fve min
u'es from Park Row, and the Flatbush
~. surface line from the Brooklyn
bridge transfers 10 the Ocean av. cars.
ms section is within ten minutes Of
brighton Beach and Coney Island. and