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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





September 2, 1922





new city construction. Each successive period will result in
further elimination of elevated lines and eventually all these
unsightly  structures  will be  gone."

The new subway routes and extensions and links of old subway
lines, as proposed by Jvlayor Hylan, are as follows:

1.     Construct two-traek extension from Fifty-ninth street and
Seventh avenue across Central Park to Sixty-third street and
Central Park West; north on Central Park West to Seventy-
second street, -west on Seventy-second street to Amsterdam
avenue; four tracks north on .Vmsterdam avenue to One Hundred
and Sixty-second street; three tracks on St. Xicholas avenue to
One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street; on Broadway to Dyckman
street.

E.xtensionsi

Two tracks on .Amsterdam avenue from One Hundred and
Sixtj'-second street  to One Hundred and Xinetieth street.

Two tracks from Dyckman street and Broadway north on
Seaman avenue, under Harlem River, through Riverdale avenue
to city line at Yonkers.

(To serve the hill section west of Broadway construct enclosed
escalators on station streets from Broadway to Fort Washing¬
ton avenue.)

2.     Construct four-track subway from Seventy-second street
and Amsterdam avenue, south on Amsterdam avenue and Tenth
avenue, connecting two tracks with Fourteenth street line.
Other two tracks continuing south on Hudson and Washington
streets to a loop at the Battery and tunnel to Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, connecting with Red Hook line at Hicks street. (Con¬
course at Chambers street to connect with present AVest Side
subway station.)

Construct at Seventy-second street. Broadway and Amsterdam
avenue an underground concourse to enable transfer of pas¬
sengers from the present West Side subway to new Amsterdam
avenue line.

3.     Construct f-wo-trai-k Xassau-Broad street subway from City
Hall to Old Slip, connecting with tunnel to Montague street,
Brooklyn, as concluding part of Center street loop, as provided
in  dual contracts.

4.     Construct four-track subway from Harlem River south on
First avenue to Tenth street; two tracks west on Tenth street
to Second avenue through Stuyvesant avenue to Third avenue, to
Bowery; south on Bowery and Park row to connect with new
Dover street tunnel to Lafayette avenue line. Brooklyn. Two
tracks east on Tenth street to Avenue C. through Avenue C. Pitt
street and East Broadway to Park row. to a loop east of Mu¬
nicipal Building.

Extension: Four tracks north on First avenue under Harlem
river, through Alexander avenue to Third avenue, to One Hun¬
dred and Sixty-first street, at whieh point three tracks on Third
avenue to Boston road at One Hundred and Sixty-third, on Boston
road to One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street, on Southern
boulevard to Pelham Parkway. Three tracks from One Hundred
and Sixty-first street and Third avenue to Webster avenue, on
Webster avenue to Fordham road, connecting with recapturable
"Ll" on Webster avenue, running to a connection with White
Plains road line at Gun Hill road.

5.     Construct two-track subway from Lexington avenue and
Forty-second street south through Lexington avenue and Irving
place to Fourteenth street, east to Tliird avenue, south to
Stuyvesant street into new First avenue  sub-way.

6.     Construct two-track subway through One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street from Hudson River (Fort Lee Ferry) to
connect with new bridge from Bronx and Harlem to Astoria.
(This line permits interchange of passengers from all city-owned
and operated north and south subway lines, as well as operation
via new Tri-Borough Bridge to  Queens  and  Brooklyn.

7.     Extend Queensboro subway from Forty-ftFst street and
Eighth avenue to Tenth avenue.

8.     Extend Fourteenth street line from Sixth to Tenth avenues,
to connect with Tenth a\'enue-Amsterdam avenue line.

9.     Extend West Side subway from Broadway and Two Hun¬
dred and Forty-second street to A'an Cortlandt station of Putnam
Division.

10.     Construct two-track subway from Huntcrspoint avenue
station of the Queensboro line to Jackson a\-enue, Boraen avenue.
Front street, under Xewtown Creek through private property to
Manhattan avenue. Four-track subway from this point (two-
track loop) through Manhattan avenue to Roebling street, to
Taylor street, to Bedford avenue to Lafayette avenue. From this
point, two tracks continue on Bedford avenue to Fulton street,
through Brevoort place and Franklin avenue (with transfer
connection at Franklin avenue and Eastern Parkway) to inter¬
section of Franklin and Flatbush avenues, connecting with No.
13; other two tracks run west from Bedford avenue into four-
track Lafayette avenue subway   (Xo.  11).

11.     Construct four-track subway from AA'ashington street and





Myrtle avenue, running through Myrtle avenue to and through
Fort Greene park and Fort Greene place to Lafayette avenue,
to Bedford avenue; continuing three tracks on Lafayette avenue
to Broadway. (Two of these four tracks from Bedford and
Lafayette avenues to Myrtle avenue and AA'ashington street are
included in Xo. 10). Two tracks from ]\Iyrtle avenue and Wash¬
ington street to 'Tillary street; under Brooklyn Bridge property
to Fulton street, tunnel to Dover street, Manhattan; under Brook¬
lyn Bridge property to Park row connecting with First avenue
(Manhattan) subway. (Transfer connection at Washington and
Concord streets to Hicks street subway and at AA'ashington street
and Myrtle'avenue to Court street and Borough Hall stations of
"recaptured" subways; and at Myrtle avenue and Flatbush avenue
extension, to Myrtle avenue station of  "recaptured"  subway.)

Extension: Three tracks from Broad-way and Lafayette avenue
through Broadway to Jamaica avenue to a connection with "re¬
capturable " "L" east of Crescent street, which runs to One Hun¬
dred  and  .Sixty-eighth  street   in  Jamaica.

12.     Construct three track subway through Utica avenue from
Eastern Parkway subway to Flatbush avenue (spur tracks from
Eastern Parkway already laid).

Extension: Through Utica avenue to Flatbush avenue cross¬
ing   at   Jamaica   Bay.

13.     Construct four-track extension from Flatbush and Frank¬
lin avenues through Flatbush avenue to intersection of Xostrand
avenue, through .Xostrand avenue to Emmons avenue (Sheeps¬
head Bay) into Surf avenue. Coney Island. Two of these four
tracks will be an extension from the Malbone Street Tunnel. The
other two tracks are described in Xo.  10. the crosstown subway.

14.     Extend Xostrand Avenue sub-way from Xostrand and Flat¬
bush avenues through Flatbush avenue to Jamaica Bay (Con¬
course station at Flatbush and Xostrand avenues -with Xo. 13).

15.     Extend Fourteenth street-Eastern District subway from
Bushwick and Metropolitan avenues through Metropolitan avenue
to a connection  -with the Jamaica avenue  "L."

IG. Construct three-track sub-way from the Prospect avenue
station of Fourth avenue (Brooklyn) sub-way through Prospect
avenue under Gowanus Canal to Lorraine street to Hicks street,
to Atlantic avenue, by tunnel to connect with Tenth avenue
(Manhattan) subway at Battery; with loop through State street,
Clinton. Pineapple and Hicks streets.

17.     Construct three-track subway from Xinetieth street and
Tenth avenue, north on Tenth avenue to Fort Hamilton Park¬
way, through Fort Hamilton Parkway to Prospect a\'enue,
through Prospect avenue to connect with Hicks street line. (The
recaptured Culver line to operate through this line to Manhattan
Instead  of  present operation.)

18.     Extend Fourth avenue subway from Eighty-sixth street to
Xinety-sixth street.

19.     Construct two-track sub-way from Fourth avenue and
Eighty-sixth street east to connect with new Tenth avenue sub¬
way and with Xew L^trecht avenue line to Coney Island.

20.     Construct two-track subway from Fourth aAenue at Sixty-
seventh street to connect w^ith tunnel to Staten Island.

21.     Extend Livonia avenue line through Xew Lots avenue to
Blake avenue, through Seventy-sixth street to "recapturable"
extension of Liberty avenue line, running to Lefferts avenue,
Richmond Hill.

22.     Extend present Corona line from Alburtis avenue to Main
street. Flushing, crossing Flushing Creek by bridge into sub¬
way, the bridge also to accommodate vehicular and pedestrian
traffic.

Extension: Two-track subway from Main street to Bayside by
way of Jamaica avenue, Sanford avenue and Broadway to Bell
avenue.

Extension: Two tracks to College Point from Main street.
Flushing, through Farrington street, Myrtle avenue, to College
Point causeway; Thirteenth street to East River, tunnel to
Clason Point Road and subway to One Hundred and Seventy-
seventh street, intersecting the Bronx Park subway at West
Farms and to the ne^v subway on Boston road and Southern
Boulevard.

23.     Construct subway extension from Corona line through
Queens Boulevard, from Gosman and Greenpoint avenues to
Jamaica avenue.

2 4.    Extend Astoria line through  .Astoria avenue to  Steinway.

Extension: Through junction and Woodhaven avenues to
Liberty avenue, meeting the new boulevard across Jamaica Bay.

25. Construct bridge from St. .Ann's avenue, Bronx, and One
Hundred and T-wenty-fifth street, Harlem, over Randalls and
AVards islands to Potter avenue, .Astoria; Astoria trains to oper¬
ate over bridge into subway on St. Ann's avenue, Bronx, to One
Hundred and -Sixty-first street and Third avenue and into sub¬
way on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to Fort Lee ferry,
Manhattan.

(This bridge will provide a through route from the Bronx.
Harlem and AVashingtou Heights to various parts of Queens
and Brooklyn without passing through Manhattan.)





Legislature Passes Bill for State Coal Administrator





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Short shrift was made of Mayor Hylan's proposed plan,
which came in the form of an amendment to the bill, for the
authorization of Xew York to operate municipal bus lines.
Under this amendment Xew Yor'.v City could issue certificates
of indebtedness aggregating $5,000,000 for financing the Hylan
municipal bus plan. The pretext for the suggestion was that
a shortage of coal would seriously interfere with the opera¬
tion  of  the  subway  and  surface   lines  in  Greater  New  York.





But while the amendment was under legislative consideration
Commissioner LeRoy T. Harkness of the Transit Commission
issued a statement that no concern should be felt about the
transit situation in Xew York City on account of a coal
shortage.

"We are practically out of the woods as far as soft coal is
concerned," he said. "The strikes have been settled and
there is excess capacity in the mines that will permit of a
large surplus production."