New-York tribune., 1922-05-27
Heights Clubs
Oppose 9th Av.
B. K. T. Subway
Declare Extension Would Be
Dead End Line at
lo5th Street and Would
Not Serve Upper Section
Favor St. Nicholas Route
Commerce Chamber Urges
4. Tracks OH West Side:
Want Better Bus Service

Washington Heights organizations
opposed at yesterdays Transit Com
mission hearing on the $21S.OOO, 900
construction program the Central Park
West-Seventh Avenue extensino Of the
B. r. rs Broadway subway, north to
l55th Street and Eighth Avenue Their
chlet objection was that the proposed
extension will have dead end" Mt
the Harlem River and would not sclve
ashington Heights
-, Mayer c. Goldman, representing the
Washington Heights Taxpayers As
sociation, suggested running the two
track extension to Fort Washington
Avenue and 1S7th Street, also covering
st. Nicholas Avenue.
he commissions tentative plan con-
templates a two track extension of the
b. r. T. Broadway line from Fifty
ninth Street under Central Park West
and the Park to 10th Street, to Sew
enth Avenue, to 155th Street and Eighth
avenue, at an estimated cost of $26,-
900
Reginald Pelham Bolton. secretary
Of the Washington Heights Association,
said:
The commissions plan would bene-
M the 100000 colored people in Har-
ON ana people going to the Polo
GROUNDS, but there are other things
t"rc important than ball grounds"
st. Nicholas Route Favored
The St. Nicholas Avenue route re-
ceNed the appreciation of the Wash
nGton Heights Chamber of Commerc
ma the Hamilton Community Council.
others who spoke for it were COPELAND
oWnsend, Harry Pasternack ana Ed
Yard Sullivan. Mr., Pasternack. who
represented the Washington Heights
hamber of Commerce, said he had a
petition bearing 100000 names ap-
.f"Itng for the route.
John J. Walker, of the Bedford
Icights Board of Trade. favored the
Washington Heights route.
There also was discussion Of the
proposed Eighth Avcnue-A -Amsterdam
Avenue line, the costliest and biggest
{ ali, to cost SOC 500, 900. V. Hardy
re0re-enting property owners, asked
nat the northern terminus be pushed
north TO Dyckman Street, rather than
lSlst Street and Fort Washington Ave
nue.. Copeland Townsend preferred
the st. Nicholas Avenue extension of
the B. R. T. to the trunk line, saying
that the latter involved unnecessary
paralleling of existing Broadway ia
cilities.
otOi Sc - Heeler, representing y
Washington Heights property owners,
indorsed the st. Nicholas Avenue route
and the Eighth Avenue trunk line in
the order named.
Chairman McAnenv suggested that
the proposal of the St. Nicholas Ave
nue. route naturally would carry with
it the condition of local service only.
This could be only two-track line, he
said. and express service would be out
Of the question.
Urge Four Tracks on West Side
The annual meeting of the Washing
ton Heights Taxpayers Association.
held last night at 167th Street ana
Broa dway. went on record as favoring
the extension up st. Nicholas and Fort
Was snlngton avenues and the quadrupe
tracking of the present West Side sub
way to permit the inauguration of ex-
press service as far as Dyckman Street
Murray Hubert, president of the Boaro
of Aldermen, and representative Of
the Washington Heights Chamber Of
Commerce, spoke in support of the
latter suggestion.
A demand also was voiced that the
Fifth Avenue bus service connecting
with the Heights be increased, espe
clally during rush hours,