New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-07
Subway ON West
Side Serving Heights,
and BROOKLYN Queens
Links Part of Project
Moving e Platform
Under 42d Street
Experts Fear HyIan Stand
May Cost City Millions
in Damages TO b. II. T.

The Transit Commission will an
nounce this week, it was made known
last night, detailed plans for the
construction Of a four-track subway
the entire length Of Manhattan. a
new line that viii connect central
Brooklyn with Long Island City, and
four other important extensions and
improvements. all at an approximate
cost of $260,00O,000.
George McAncny, chairman OF
the commission, declined yesterday
to discuss the detailed plans. saying
the commission would give out every
thing early in the week. Briefly, the
new lines are:
Eighth Avenue and Central Park
West to the Harlem River. covering
the Washington Heights section Of
upper Manhattan.
Moving Platform in A2d Street
A moving platform between Grand
Central Terminal and Times Square.
A cross-town line from central
Brooklyn to greensboro Plaza.
Ashland Place connection for tho
Fulton Street elevated line. afordinr
an underground route for the Fulton
Street traffic either through existing
tunnels or through a new line to Mar
haitian.
A tunnel under the Narrous. con
nesctin& the Fourth Avenue subway
with the Borough of Richmond.
An extension of the Queens s1bo-a,.
and elevated from Corona TO Fpsbing
Daniel L. Turner, chief engineer o.
the Transit Commission. speaking a..
ioWn Hall on Friday night. told about
the new Manhattan four-track line. say
ing that it would serve the Washing
ton Heights section
ne Hylan-Thompson $4,000 000
Hohday is the term used i'm Transit
commission circles in discussing
Mayor Hylan's blocking of alfrmativc
action on the contract tor building
an elevated section OF the Fourteenth
S,treet-Eastern District line. basicaly
intended TO relieve the extreme con
gostion of Brooklyn Manhattan traffc
at the Canal Street station OF the
Mayor Hylan demonstrated TO tho
Chicago mayor how easy il was to
block the carrying out Of "A transit
plan that he approved two years ago.
and upon the carrying out o. which
the b. r. 7. largely has predlcaled a
damage suit for $50 900 900 against the
city
1t is the Judgment Of the Transit
commissioners and their lawyers that
Mayor Hylan's act IN approving this
proposed elevated link between Mese-
role Street and East New York two
years ago, warranting the b. Z. 7. IN
spending $4,000 in preparing for It
at East New York, followed now by
trying to kill the entire project viii
enable the b. Z. T. 70 win Il judgmenS
IN It's damage action.
Board Against ~ Construction
The Transit Commission is openly
against elevated railroad construction
in the built-up portion of the city. and.
generally speaking, opposes any sort OF
new elevated construction. The ee-
waited link between Melrose Street and
East New York is IN class by itself
The Greenpoint, Bushwick and East
New York residents labored long and
hard for transportation back IN 1913,
and the Fourteenth Street Eastern Dis
LfIcl subway was tne result.
When Hylan became Mayor in 1918
the route for the elevated part was laid
out through johnson Avenue. The
Mayor vetoed this plan. Two years
elapsed, and the clamor among the
Greenpointers and East New Workers
grew and has grown since the business
people Of the loft district in Manhat-
tan, living in East New York, transfer
at Canal Street 10 get Brooklyn
bound train.
Two years ago Transit Construction
Commissioner John II Delaney, now
Dock Commissioner, the head and front
Of the Hylan campaign committee last
year, took up with Mayor Hylan the
building Of the elevated link between
Meserole Street and East New YORK.
Delaney rallied the people Interested
and talked Mayor Hylan and the Hylan
Board Of Estimate into approving this
elevated section Of the Fourteenth
Street Eastern District line. Mayor Hy-
Ian also separately approved the plan.
The Transit Commission inherited
the plan when it came into Office. and
in August, 1921. sent the contract for
the building of the section TO the Board
of Estimate. The board sent it back
to the commission after delay %
nine months. The commission returned
it with letter urging the need Of
progress. In the presence o. Mayor
Thompson of Chicago and an audience
of bell ringers the Board of estimate
on Friday ordered the return of the
contract with the Joslin Company to
the Transit Commission unapproyed
Now Mayor Hylan's neighbors de-
mand a subway or nothing, AID the
Mayor has assured them that the ele-
waited plan is dead.
City's Defense in Suit Hurt
The serious phase OF the matter il
that the B. K. T. declines to modify the
contract entered into involving the con-
struction Of an elevated structure over
right of way now used by the Long
Island Railroad for its freight traffic.
The refusal of the Board of Estimate TO
approve the construction contract. after
two years ago approving the route and
the Mayor and the Board Of Estimate
plan. in the judgment of the Transit
| Commission leaves the city without
much defense in the face of the b. +. I 8
| suit.
If it is to be subway instead of an
elevated structure the burden is on the