New-York tribune., 1922-10-14
Transit Board Announces
B. r. T. Extensions to
l55th ST., Manhattan,
andRosebank, Richmond
st. George Cut Out
By Narrows Route
Broadway Line To Be
Paralleled to Point Near
er to the Polo Grounds

The Transit Commission announced
last night the selection of routes for
new transit construction, she out
standing features being:
Extension Of the B. r. T. subway
from Fifty-ninth Street and Seventh
Avenue, by way Of Central Park West,
to Seventy-second Street and under
Seventh Avenue to 155th Street and
st. Nicholas Avenue,
Definite selection of the Narrows,
or southern route. connection with the
brooklyn Fourth Avenue line at Nine
ey-fifth Street, crossing under the Mar
rows to Pennsylvania Avenue at Rose
bank.
Plans for the extension of the Fourth
Avenue subway in Brooklyn from it's
present terminus at Eighty-sixth
Street to Ninety-fifth Street, Fort
Hamilton, already have been author
lied. This is link in what the COM
mission considers will become the main
Staten Island trunk
The extension of the B. R. T. subway
to Washington Heights will enable the
people. OF that section to get to and
from downtown by three direct routes
the projected Eighth Avenue. the ex-
isting subway at Broadway or the B.
Il. I. by way Of Central Park West.
George McAneny, chairman of the
comm ission, says the location of the
Staten Island end of the subway at
Rosebank instead of at St. George Is
justified by the geography of Staten
Island and the needs Of the travelling
population Of Richmond Borough as a
whole.
Justifies New Routes
The Board of Estimate has set Oc-
tober 20 for hearing OH the proposed
new routes.
The statement issued by Mr.. Nc
Aneny in explanation of the new routes
follows:
THE series of routes covering tho
Washington Heights extension present
sion's plan of May 1. That plan In
cludeds the new,trunk subway and feed
.ers known as the Eighth Avenue line.
extending north and south from 1S1st
Street and Washington Heights, by
way of Fort Washington Avenue, Am
sterdam Avenue. Eighth Avenue and
audson Street to a new general trans
Ter station at Chambers Street. The
b. X. l. extension, as then projected,
was. terminated at 155th Street and
Eighth Avenue, in Harlem. The con-
sideration of the needs of Washington
Heights for additional transit, as ex-
planned by representatives of that Sec
tion at the time the original plan was
presented, induced the commission to
have new studies made. These studies
have developed that at relatively
small additional cost, the B. r. T. line
could be made more effective and serve
a. much larger community by being con-
tinued up st. Nicholas Avenue from
lbbth Street to a point where connec-
tions can be made either by spur tracks
or or p, p,as,ssageways to the Eighth Avenue
trunk line north, as we'll as to the ex-
listing Interborough line, which turns
out OF broadway into st. Nicholas Ave
nue. at 168th Street. This change
would give to Washington Heights one
OF the most thorough plans of rapid
transit as yet conceived.
Staten Island Extension
THE question Of the selection Of the
best route to Staten Island has had the
attention Of the commission for several
months. 1t has been convinced, through
the studies. made, that the best inter-
ests of all concerned will be served
both. from the engineering and traffic
standpoints by the Narrows route, from
Fort Hamilton to Pennsylvania Ave
nue., Rosebank, s. 1. Plans for the
extension of the Fourth Avenue SUBJ
way, in Brooklyn, from it's present
terminus at Eighty-sixth Street to
Ninety-ffth Street, Fort Hamilton. al
ready have been authorized. This is a
link in what will become the Staten
Island line.
"The new route, beginning at the
terminus of the Fort Hamilton extern
sion, will extend as two-track sub
way or tunnel southwesterly and west
erly, under private property and
streets, to the Shore Road at Ninety
seventh Street. 1t will then cross the
Narrows, with a curve toward the
Staten Island shore, turning under
Pennsylvania Avenue to point in the
existing right of way Of the Staten
Island Rapid Transit Railroad Provi-
sion also is made insthe route descrip-
tion for two branches in the Borough
of Richmond, both leaving, Pennsyl-
vania Avenue at a point near New York
Avenue. and turning north and south,
respectively, to points at which connec-
tion can conveniently be made at the
north with the tracks of the South
Beach branch of the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Railroad and at the
(Coufnu3d on Bsus six1