The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-17
RIVERSIDE DRIVE SEES
GAIN IN ANTI-DUMP FIGHT
West Side Association Pleased to Have Hearing Put
Of-Says Stand Is for All New York-City
Authorities Side Of 1t.

Concerning the legal battle which
prevent the erection of a garbage and
ash dump building on the waterfront
OF Riverside Park at Seventy-seventh
street, there was but little to report
yesterday. That little was in favor OF
the West End Association, which be-
lieves ii is battling on behalf of the
whole city for the preservation of the
riverfront park, because Justice Gave
gan in the supreme Court put over the
hearing on the application for a re-
straining order against city officials UNI
til February 23. with the stipulation
that no more work Is to he done upon
the building meanwhile.
In the interval the West t,ni Assoc
citation, through It's president. John ..
Coleman, and it's counsel. Charles l..
Craig. hopes to stir mp public sentiment
against what they say Is the latest at
tack of commercial interests upon the
parks. so that when they win the legal
fight, as they expect to. nc one will
dare renew the attack for some time to
come.
Says Fight IL for whole city.
Mind you,' said MIR. Coleman yes
terday, this movement Is not being
made on behalf of a little knot Of peo-
pie. To he sure there are more than
500 members OF the West End Asso-
citation and they represent many millions
OF dollars in real estate holdings in the
Riverside Drive section hut We repre-
sent also the people of the whole city
in what we believe to he the culmina-
.f., ~ d. taV,, snl WHa xft, Ans NNN
can ave the park. II We lose We
might all of US just as well quit and
move away where We won't have to
fight. And that's what most of us will
do II the park In To he turned Into a
railroad. yard. with slaughter house and
garbage dump attachments.
The erection of this building Mr..
Coleman continued. lis simply the cul-
mination OF a situation which ias ex-
listed for more than twenty years. II
IS a part Of the cncroachment which
commercial interests have always been
'~endeavoring to make upon Riverside
PARK
Nj. Coleman went on TO quote pro-
visions in the laws passed In 1894 and
1925 establishing the park and providing
among other things that mo dump or
receptacle for the deposit OF garbage.
ashes or refuse Of any kind ''' shall
he erected or established upon any pub
lie park domain or upon the waterfront
of said park domains above Fifty-ninth
stree; in he city Of New York.
I'm reliance that no sucl dump should
he erected" said Mr.. Coleman. people
bought valuable property on Riverside
Drive and improved IL with magnificent
APARTMENT houses and splendid private
residences. To-day there is right there
property the assessed value ~ which Is
almost i~ncalculable and which Will be
most seriously damaged If this structure
now in process OF erection is aIowed.
This dump is going 10 prove absolutely
disastrous to the vested interests which
have gone there in reliance upon these
acts and others in protection OF inc
parks. Don't forget that the park n
the drive don't belong TO the West Slde
alone they are the property OF the
whole city. Riverside Park. with us
miles OF riverfront. - one OF the great
pleasure places of the city and the drive
has been described as the most beautiful
of it's kind in the world.