The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Victories Of 5th Avenue
Association Cited Abroad

the Borough President, the committee
on city plan and the Board of Estimate.
at which all who opposed the application
were given every opportunity 10 file
their opposition. and after due consid-
Grafton had been given to every argu-
ment presented, the board voted 10
adopt the recommendation OF the
Borough President, that the encroach-
ments be removed and that ten feet of
each sidewalk be taken off and added
to the street. thus giving Fifty-seventh
street between Fifth and Eighth ave-
nues a sixty foot roadway.
TT is believed that this widening will
enhance the property and business in
terests on Fifty-seventh street ma
terially. The actual work of widening
Is expected by the Borough Presidents
office to commence in the early part OF
1922. Notices have already been sent
TO the property owners 10 remove their
encroachments, and upon the recon-
mendations OF our Fifty-seventh street
committee an application has been
made to postpone the widening until
August l. 1922, which time will be the
most convenient for all the interests IN
volved. This matter will be taken UP
with the new Borough President. and
the actual work OF widening Will form
an interesting part Of the associations
1922 campaign In Fifty-seventh street"
The association has taken a promi-
nent part in urging the extension OF the
Queens Borough subway under Forty
second and Forty-first streets from Lex.
ington to Eighth avenue. The 1922
program calls for continued effort 10
see that the money is appropriated and
the work carried out. The contract has
been awarded 10 the Powers Kennedy
Contracting Corporation for an approx
innate cost OF si,00o,000.
Regarding the Grand Central viaduct
Al Park avenue and Forty-second street
tho report says:
The association potitlonod the Board
OF Estimate and Apportionmcnt FOR the
continuance and opening Of the easterly
roadway around tho Grand Central sta
tion for northbound traffic for the relief
of traffic in this section OF the city
Considerable time was spent by the cX-
ecutiye staff IN conferences with the
Borough President and tho Commissioner
OF Public Works. which resulted IN the
Borough President applying 90 tho Board
Of Estimate for authority 20 negotiate
with the New York Central Railroad.
Permission was obtained and negotiations
commenced. The negotiations have been
long drawn out. due to the fact that
there were number Or engineering
problems to be decided, However. IN the
latter part OF December Borough presl-
dent Curran made a preliminary report
in order that tho new Borough prcsi-
dent might be IN a position 10 continue
the work OF his predecessor.
In the Borough Presidents report he
rccites the fact that on April IL, 1921,
upon the petition Of our association for
relief he was authorized BY tho Board
OK Estimate 70 negotiate with the rail-
road company FOR the acquisition Of the
necessary easements and for the erection
Of tho structure ~ relieve the congestion
or traffic In tho vicinity * the Grand
Central station and more particularly az
Forty-hfih stree and Vanderbilt avenue.
This Is the first time that any city Of
fetal has ever been authorized bv the
Board OF Estimate to confer ~ rcp-
rcsentative OF the city. with the New
York Central Railroad Company Ill OBJ
tanning tie necessary relief
Negotiations have been under way
since that date. and method or relief
Is believed to have been foand. but tbs
contamination or the terms and oondi.