The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1916-03-28
SEEK TO Danish
FACTORIES FROM
HOTEL DISTRICT
Fifth Avenue Business Men
Ask Commission TO Extend
Restrictions.
WOULD RAISE HEIGHT.
Larger Zone for Structures
Two Times Width OF Street
Is Advocated.
WOULD RAISE HEIGHT.

Tho Commission on Building Dis
tricts and Restrictions held its second
session In City Hall to-day and heard
arguments for and against Its reports
on the territory In Manhattan be-
tween Twenty-third and Fifty-ninth
Streets.
The Fifth Avenue Association. with
a membership OF seven hundred busl-
ness mon and property owners be-
tween Washington Square and Ono
Hundred and Tenth street. urged.
through Robert Greer Cooke. that the
territory from which manufacturing
IL 20 be excluded DO extended TO in
clude the area bounded AZ follows:
South on Madison Avenue from
Thirty fourth Street TO a point half
way between Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Streets. thence west TO
broadway, thence north on Broadway
to q point half way between Thirty
first and Thirty-second Streets. thence
west TO Seventh Avenue, thence north
on Seventh Avenue TO Thirty-fourth
Street and thence east to the point
of beginning,
Tho association called attention 20
the fact that the territory embraced
In tho additional district contains n
number of the clty's principal hotels,
such as the Waldorf Astoria, Nc
Alpin. Martinique. Imperial, walcott,
Breslin, Prince George. and many
others of equal standing. II was
argued tho best hotels must be en-
couraged TO remain In the vicinity
of the big railroad terminals, and that
II they are not protected against the
factory invasion, the city will suffer
through loss In property values.
1t is also suggested that from the
southerly boundary Of the above zone.
the entire district to Fifty-ninth
street. enlarged as suggested. bound
ed on the east above Thirty fourth
Street by Third Avenue and on the
west above Thirty-fourth Street by
Seventh Avenue. ne restricted aseinst
manufacturing except where done In
connection with retail business.
Other recommendation were made
by the association concerning the
height of buildings. One was that
the height limit should be two and n
half times the width OF the street In
the following district: Bounded on
the south by Forty first Street, then
north on Lexington Avenue 70 FIJI
tieth Street. west to Madison Avenue
north to Slxtieth Street, west to Firth
Avenue, south TO Fifty ninth Street
west to Broadway. north to Sixty
third Street. south to Fifty eight
Street, east to Madison Avenue. souti
to Forty ninth Street. west to F1fu
Avenue, south on Fifth Avenue !.
Forty third Street. excepting boti
sides OF Forty-second Street.
Robert Thorne OF No. 1858 Parl
Avenue, and Edward w. Harris. Sec
rotary OF tho Park Avenue Associa
ton. approved the report OF the Com
mission in general and Its applica
ton to Park Avenue In particular.
Louis Schrag OF No. l42 Yves
Twenty third street, entered protests
against the permitting OF public gar
ages and livery stables In otherwis
restricted areas.
Edmund l.. Baylies OF No. 81 Wal
Street, counsel for the Murray Hi
Assoc iation. paid tho Commission
high compliment for It's work 4
planning wisely for the good OF tn
greatest number" He entered mino
objections. however. The manner 4
which the line between business an
residential districts was drawn a
Thirty NTH Street and Madison Ave
nue. and at Fortieth Street and Madl
son Avenue, Mr.. Baylies argued
would seriously harm residentin
property. In explanation ne said tina
under the plan of the commission
business could be established at tn
northeast corner OF Thirty fifth Stree
and Madison Avenue. for instance
and thereby encroach on the entir
; block OF residences. He also aske
that the restriction line be pushe
: south to the southerly side of Thirty
: fourth Street. II buildings 200 fee
tall were permitted on the north sid
of Thirty fourth Street between Thir
and Amsterdam Avenues, he said, tn
, residences on the south side @
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