The sun., 1919-05-25

Board OF Estimate and Apportionment
to amend the zoning ordinance so that
the entire height OF a building In this
section will be not more than seventy
Ave feet. This gives ample room for
building a residence five stories from the
ground floor and at the same time
makes II Improbable to build apart
ment houses. OF this height, because
they won't psy."
extends along the avenue from Sixtieth
to Ninety-ninth streets. But the COM
mittee intends to extend the section TO
10th street. or the entire length OF the
park. to afford II protection from the
probable destruction the experts have
assured the committee will follow IL tall
buildings are erected along the avenue.
should Interest All Citizens.
John II. Towne chairman OF the Fifth
Avenue Association, believes that all
citizens must respond now II the ave-
nue. Is TO be saved from the invasion
Of the apartment houses. He says:
THE present Is the time when all
citizens OF New York. no matter where
their Immediate interests HAY rest,
and maintaining one of the few sec
ALL and in which every true New Yorker
feels q glowing pride.
ITO accomplish the results sought,
however-to save upper Fifth avenue
from q certain blight which the further
building OF apartment houses win bring
to 1.-THE apathy which has heretofore
existed In regard to this vital matter
must be cast aside. All citizens who
have at heart the best interests of the
city must rise 10 this call to arms and
stand shoulder to shoulder with the
Fifth Avenue Association in this organ
ICED movement for civic beauty and
civic protection.
"If the plan TO limit the height OF
buildings within the district designated
is TO succeed there mus: be immediate
and aggressive action. Mere approval
of the plan will accomplish nothing,
The movement will get nowhere"
The Fifth Avenue Association. the
Committee for the Protection OF the
Park Section of Fifth Avenue. the tax
payers associations. practically every
civic body and citizens organisation
will be represented at the luncheon
Judge Ebert II. Gary of the committee
will speak, urging the necessity for Inn
mediate and effective action to limit the
height OF apartment houses to the speci-
ned number OF feet George McAneny
former Borough President OF Manhat-
tan Lawson Purdy and many other men
equally prominent In the life OF the city,
will speak.
Some of Those hack Of the Fight.
Among those already actively inter-
ested In the project to keep the avenue
clear OF apartment houses are DR.. Clinton
r. Achorn. president of the Rotary Club
Of New York Stephen Baker, Edmund
l. Baylies, Charles L. Bernheimer. Mich
olas F. Brady, Henry Bruere. William Z.
Hardness Flagler. Robert W. De Forest.
Walter Jennings. J. Horace Harding. ],
W. Hartman. president OF the Hartman
National Bank; Thomas Hastings,
Wayne D. Heydecker. the Rev. John
Haynes Holmes. Adolph Lewisohn,
George MoAnsny, Marcus II. Marks,
former President OF the Borough OF Man
haitian; Walter r. Maynard. Rudolph p.
Miller. William Fellowes Morgan. Judge
Morgan J. OBrien. Felix T. Rosen. ia
cob H. Schir. Mortimer L. Schin. Edwin
B. A. Seligman. the Rev. Joseph Silver
man OF Temple Bmanu-El, Nelson 3.
| Spencer. ]. Frederick Talcott. Miss Lii
liam Wald, William r. Wilcox. Everett
p. Wheeler. Arthur williams. william
Solomon. William f. 8. Griswold and
Frank %. WELLER.
Though these men and many others
| assert that II In an outrage to destroy
| the individuality OF Fifth avenue with
apartment houses. some OF the architects
and builders have an entirely different
/ view.