New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

This represents the regulating and
grading of 81 miles. Twcnty-ninc con-
tracts have been completed for paw
Ing at total cost Of S5Sa, zee, covering
q dirtance Of 7.8 miles. Repaving work
done this year cost 81 900 and Gov
ers q distance Of ~ miles.
Among the most important improve
mepts completed during the year was
the laying OF a strip OF concrete nave.
ment twenty feet wide IN Roosevelt
Avenue from Fifth Street, woodside Ia
Junction Avenue, CorOna, and the law
Ing o. sheet asphalt pavement twenty
feet wide from Junction Avenue 20
Alburtis Avenue. This road opens a
new thoroughfare from Queens Boule-
yard through Woodside. Winfield. Elm
hurst and Corona, and although the
road was only completed last August a
large volume OF trafie passes over Il,
particularly on account Of the detour
made necessary because Of the repav-
ing Of Jackson Avenue from Junction
Avenue 10 Fifty-Arst Street.
Repaving Of Jackson Avenue from
Junction Avenue 10 Fifty-frst Street Is
now under way.
The concrete pavement has been
completed in Bell Avenue from croch-
eron Avenue TO the Long Island Rail
road tracks. This 10 about two-thirds
OF the distance provided for in the con-
tract, which extends TO Jackson Ave
nue.. This work will be resumed In the
spring.
The contractor is completing the
work Of laying q new pavement in Lib
erty Avenue from the Roekaway Plank
Road TO Leherts Avenue, a very inn
portant thoroughfare in the Fourth
Ward. Contracts have been awarded
for paving In Jerome Avenue from
Greenwood Avenue 70 Van Wyck Ave-
nue. and from Van Wyck Avenue Ia
Liberty Avenue and also In the section
OF Jerome Avenue from Brooklyn Bor-
ough Line 10 Seventy-seventh Street
The contract for regulating and grad
ing and for laying curbs and sidewalks
in the section Of Greenwood Avenue TO
Van Wyck Avenue is almost completed
Repaving in Merriek Road, from ia
maica Avenue 20 the Nassau County
lire, was completed during the sum
mer. Hampstead and Jamaica Turn
pike, from Grand Street 10 Jericho
Turnpike, was rcpaved during the year.
Raising the grade Of the RockawRy
Turnpike. from Hook Creek at tho
Nassau County lire 70 New York Ave
nue, was corhpleted; @ concrete pave
ment was laid from Hook Greek TO the
conduit, and a sheet asphalt pavement
on a concrete foundation was laid from
the Conduit 20 Brinkmeyer Avenue. A
new connection was made at Brooklyn
Borough line with the old Roekaway
Plank Road.
Authorization was obtained from the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
for regulating and grading Beach Chan
mel Drive and filling in the land under
water from the bulkheHd line 70 the
Long Island Railroad and Hammel
Boulevard 10 Beach 10th Street. Worl
has begun on the section at Beach
Ninety-second Street, and a contract II
being prepared for small section oi
the work near Hammel Boulevard
| This work not only will mean open
| Ing up a new street, but will inEurt
the reclamation OF more than i,50C
/ lots, most Of which now are under
water. IL will permit building of 4
sewer and provide place for laying
water mains and eventually provide &
new thoroughfsre in the Rockaway
/ Peninsular. Traffic now has 10 depend
on only one thoropghfsre, the Rock
away Boulevard.
Sewer work in Queens for 1929 ha.
/ exceeded in cost and extent that Of ans
year OF our history. We have built
/ to-day 1886 miles of concrete sewer
/ l3.48 miles Of pipe sewer and con
structed 317 receiving basins. Pre-
! liminary authorizations amount q
/ &c 2s4.60 and final authorizations 80,
/ 070. ESQ, = total Of S5,364 $50. Contracts
J compile ted amount 70 s2,572,928.