New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-07
CITIZENS Committee Re-
rs;ye Pledges of Support
from All Quarters.
Of AN MAY BE PUT UP
TO ESTIMATE BOARD
o.., Estate Broker Urges That
restricted Area Be Kept
Above 42d Street.

c,...- co0peration between the GU
y, co-omittee and city officials
led the trend Of yesterdays de-
',.,nents in the campaign 20 pro-
''' .. ,rescribed retail trade zore from
.,r+bsr invasion Of loft buildings.
'De c,.,-oso J. II. Burton. Of 267 Fifth
- announced that his associates
- novement for practical city
,.,,,nc hoped 70 have the Commis-
r I''. On Building Districts and Kes'r'c-
w. ,.ts early action on the plan TO
u ."'..,. manufacturing from the area
s..ws,n Thirty-third Street and Fitty-
- street. from Third Avenue TO
seth s. Avenue. II possible, the COM
,..,,r will be requested 10 embody
-. plan in its report 10 the BOARD oil
r,.inate this week.
-. % last night all tho letters and
..-.onal messages that had poured IN
..r ,hs committee were favorable 20
-, ~. campaign, Mr.. Burton said.
srra been sitting here at my tele
.so,a all day accepting offers Of CO.
ssnsrston from every sort Of interest
,n,g5rable," he added. The response
:, our page advertisement appeal has
-, vonderful. This Is the biggest
ding that has hit New York in years
A special meeting Of the Real Is
49,. Bosrd Of New York will be held
,,d,v 20 take action on the project.
~. Of the leading members has ex-
,,essed himself as unqualhedly In
.,vo- Of it. A financial institution has
adorned the committee that 1t intends
=, mass a resolution at meeting OF
., hoard Of directors to-day fsvoring
nolicy against entertaining loans
a, building operations in the pro
,o,ed shopping zone unless the owners
viii agree TO restrictions against
manufacturing.
Real Estate Man Objects
These developments, added 20
cordial receptive attitude on the part
Of several large cloak and suit manu-
iaeturers. summarize the favorable re
sponse which delighted. in fact almost
surprised. the committee.
Opposition made itself heard Tor the
first tine last night IN a statement IS
sued b. Nathan L. Ottlnger. real es-
tate broker with Offices at Seventh
Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street. lie
points out that several of the retailers
are "suuatters" in the shopping zone,
ard offers the suggestion that the COM
ni..ee limit It's activities 20 the area
shove Forty-second Street
10 have the necessary cooperation
n. movement toward idealistic condi-
ions must be general" Mr.. Ottinger
avs. "and not one which plainly, on
Il surface, will accrue TO the beneht
Of one class Of people and 70 the detri-
rent OF another.
Fifth Avenue and its intersecting
streets we're formerly residential as
rct in which the best homes OF the
e.y we're situated. Then came the en-
erosehments OF trade. Retail stores
btesn 70 appear botn on the avenue and
IA adjacent side streets. The private
cxellers we're forced from their homes.
And now these same retailers, really
seaztters in a district of homes, pro-
pose 70 dictate who shall and who snail
net be permitted 20 sojourn IN the lana
hey have conquered.
The article in question, signed ny
many o. these retail merchants, SPEAKS
q the wide area Of vacant or depre-
GATED properly in the lower middIe
psyt OF the city
Retailers at Fault.
when they left the Sixth Avenue
ard Twenty-third Street districts, dio
they stop 10 consider the shrinkage IN
az values and the empty buildings le1t
behind them? While there IS no ques-
iion that factory buildings IN close
proximity 20 Fifth Avenue lessen the
i1able value OF that thoroughfare, !,
- fact that were the side streets wen
built I'd with large loft buildings tnelr
.a1sble value would make up for the
depreciation on Fifth Avenue many
tines over.
The manufacturers with their herds
q employees are not altogether 10
blame for seemingly following ne re
al stores. This condition Is largely
brought about by the retailer them
selves. These near-sighted merchants
instead OF sending their buyers 70 the
slow room OF the manufacturer, as
ost-of-town merchants do, com3el the
manufacturer % show his samples a.
ne retail store. This has caused a
natural desire on the part Of :he manu-
iseturer 20 be near MS customers.
We are undeniably confronted with
condition that should be remedied-
ort how Surely not by q signed no
zee In the press which tells the manu-
iaeturers that a preference VII be
gwen 70 those located outside Ger
an zone. And how is this zone Sc
leeted' Il carefully avoids large
commercial structure recently erected