New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
S-MINUTE TRIP TO
QUEENS BOROUGH
First Subway Train Run to
Bridge Plaza, L. |. City,
Recently


Manhattan. as the trip from the Grand
Central Station to the Bridge Plaza in
Long Island City can be made on sub
way trains in from eight to ten min
utes. The first subway train arrived at
the Bridge Plaza station, Long Island
City. a week ago last Sunday. Since
then thousands Of persons have been
carried 10 and from Manhattan over
this route.
An express service will be placed In
operation in the near future that will
cut down the running time TO six min
utes. Trains are now operated at five
minute intervals, and as soon as the
balance of the rolling stock is deliv-
cred 20 the marlborough Rapid Transit
Company for the greensboro subway
trains will run at two or three minute
intervals.
Hundreds of men are rushing to COM
pletion the extensions from the Bridge
Plaza three miles northward 20 Astoria
and FIVE miles eastward TO Woodside,
Elmhurst and Corona, and il is expect
ed that trains will be operated over
these routes shortly after January /.
John Adikes, chairman Of the transit
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce of the Borough of Queens, which
has worked constantly in the last FIVE
wears TO secure the operation Of the
subway system into Queens Borough,
said Yesterday: "The people OF New
York City are learning about the new
transportation facilities that are now
being placed in operation into all parts
of Queens Borough, and We expect to
see during the next few years the larg-
est real estate development OF new
homes and commercial enterprises that
has ever taken place in any part of the
city.
II doubt if more than small per
centage Of the millions of passengers
who bought tickets at the Grand Cen
trial subway station in the last year
know that they can now travel east
ward from that point TO the Bridge
Plaza in Queens Borough in the same
/ time that il takes to travel southwark
/ 10 Brooklyn Bridge station or north
ward 20 Ninety-siXth Street or that
! the millions Of passengers who use the
Brooklyn Bridge subway station are
acquainted with the fact that the
3 BROOKLYN Rapid Transit trains have
been in operation over the Liberty
Avenue extension from Brooklyn into
Queens for the last year. and operation
over the Jamaica Avenue extension as
far as Richmond Hill will start by
January /, 1917 making these sections
available for homeseekers, in the same
time as IL now takes 70 travel north
ward to Washington Heights and The
Bronx.
What Transit Means to Queens
"The majority of the residents OF
Queens will now be able TO travel from
their homes 10 the business districts
/ in Manhattan conveniently and rapidly
and at a scent fare. II is almost I'm.
possible TO exaggerate the effect OF
this great improvement on the future
development Of the borough. Since the
time that operation of the original sub
way started. in 1904, passengers have
/ been able 10 travel from Brooklyn and
/ lower Manhattan to the most northerly
point in Manhattan and The Bronx,
distance Of from ten to seventeen miles
FOR FIVE cents, resulting in the con-
struction of hundreds OF new apart.
ment houses, the establishment OF
thousands of new homes. with the CON
seGuent large increase in realty vaIues
+ i'm these districts, which had been
F largely undeveloped previous 70 the op,
GRAFTON of rapid transit. But rlght
across the East River. only mile or
two from the heart of the business sec
tion Of Manhattan, Queens was without
adequate transit facilities and had no
connection whatever with the rapld
transit lines of the city. It's only rail
connection was by trolley cars. requir-
ing an additional fare 70 reach the de-
sired destinations in business or shop
ping sections, or by the trains OF the
Long Island Railroad, which were still
more expensive. The progress during
the last ten years Of Queens: DESPITE
the lack Of cheaper transit facilities,
has been remarkable. What il will be
I in the next ten years, with transit IA
cilities equal and in many cases SUI
perior TO every other section OF New
York City, will surprise even the most
confident To-day Queens is on the
/ threshold Of the most wonderful de-
velopment that has ever occurred IN
any part Of New York City or. for that
matter. in any city Of the world