The New York herald., 1922-09-07
HYLAN SCHEDULES
TRANSIT HEARINGS
Board of Estimate to Take Up
Various Sections i'm Five
Public Sessions.
PLANS ARE SUBMITTED
Harlem, Washington Heights
and Bronx Called for Meet
ing Friday, Sept. Is.
PLANS ARE SUBMITTED

Mayor Hylan formally presented his
600,000.000 scheme for new transit
routes at special meeting OF the Board
OF Estimate yesterday. Five dates for
public hearings were set At each hear
ing plans for particular section of the
city will be discussed.
The first hearing win be on Friday.
September Is. and the last on Tuesday.
October 10. When Comptroller Craig
asked that the dates be set forward two
weeks so the hearings might come in
cooler weather the Mayor replied:
IL we put these hearings off we will
be accused by some people of playing
politics"
We'll be accused OF that. any way"
remarked Borough President Riegelmann
OF Brooklyn.
In presenting his plan the Mayor made
statement on the need of new transit
facilities. He said the State Transit
Commission could never furnish them be-
cause 1t was thinking first OF the finan-
cial needs of the Sompanies.
The Mayor added that by the recapture
of the lines he plans TO take the city
would not only save S10,000,000 year
in interest and reduce the tax rate about
ten points but would be able to capital
ize subway earnings and issue several
hundred million dollars wodth of bonds
for new subway construction.
A schedule OF the hearings follows:
Friday, September Is, ;15 y. NJ, df-
yectin0 Hdriem, Washington Heights
and The Bronr.
West Side subway through Broadway
and Amsterdam avenue south. escalators
TO Fort Washington avenue.
East Side and Bronx subway, through
Webster avenue and Boston road.
Manhattan
Crosstown 125th street subway, from
Fort Lee Ferry to and over Tri- Borough
Bridge to Queens.
Tri- Borough Bridge, from Harlem
and Bronx to Astoria south; subway
through st. AIMS avenue TO 161st street
end Third avenue.
Subway from West Farms to Clason
Point to connect with tunnel to College
Point, L. I.
Wednesday. September 20. 2 lis P. mr.,
affecting Manhattan Island bciotc 125th
street.
West Side route under Amsterdam
avenue and Tenth avenue. including ex-
tension from Seventh avenue and Fifty
ninth street over Amsterdam avenue
and Seventy second street to Hudson
street and street with tunnel from Bat
terry to Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn.
East Side route through First avenue.
BOWeTy anu lower F.ist soiut "
pal Building and tunnel 10 Fulton street
Brooklyn
Lexington avenue from Forty-second
street. south into East Side subway at
Ninth street and Third avenue.
Nassau-Broad street route to connect
Center street loop with Montague street
tunnel.
Extension or Queens-Forty-secon
street line from Eighth TO Tenth avenue.
Extension of Fourteenth street--East-
ern district line from Sixth TO Tenth
avenues.
Tuesday, Sept. rs. affecting Brook
1yn:
Crosstown route from Long Island
City. through Greenpoint and Williams
burg to Manhattan and to Sheepshead
Bay and Coney Island. through Flat
bush and Nostrand avenues.
Lafayette avenue route through East
New York. Cypress Hills, Richmond Hill
10 Jamaica.
Utica avenue line from Eastern Park
way to Jamaica Bay.
Tenth avenue. foot Hamilton avenue
and Red Hook route to Borough Hail