NEW YORK CITY. 



innry pupils owing to lack of room, but mono 

 than one third of these subsequently found ac- 

 oofnmodation. 



It was proposed that the oflicc of CuuiiM-l to 

 tlir Hoard i.f Kducation In- abolished, the I'.t-ard 

 imatc deriding that all legal matters n\>n 

 which tin- Board "I Kducation needed advice 

 cciiil.l le attemleil to by the Corporation Counsel, 

 luit this action failed to o into effect. 



Rapid Transit. A Hoard of Rapid Transit 

 Kail road Commissioners for the City of New York, 

 -tin:; of William Steinway, .lohn II. Starin, 

 Samuel Spencer, John II. Ininan, and Fugcne L. 

 Hushe, appointed by the provisions of chapter iv 

 of the Laws of 1891, to determine upon a gen- 

 eral plan of construction of a rapid-transit rail- 

 to bo established in this city, reported to the 

 Common Council on Oct. 20, 1891, that a decision 

 favoring an underground and viaduct railway 

 \va^ reached, and a route, as follow: The center 

 line recommended to begin at a point under the 

 wcMerly side of Whitehall Street, distant along 

 the sune 62-5 feet north from the northerly line 

 of South Street produced ; thence by diverging 

 lines under Whitehall Street and Battery Park 

 and State Street, respectively, forming a loop 

 line, tho tracks converging to parallelism at a 

 point under Broadway between Bowling Green 

 and Morris Street; thence under Broadway and 

 Union Square to 59th Street ; thence under tho 

 Boulevard to 121st Street; thence by viaduct to 

 134th Street; thence under the Boulevard to 

 the south line of 156th Street; thence by viaduct 

 to the north line of 159th Street ; thence under 

 the Boulevard to 169th Street; thence under 

 Eleventh Avenue to a point 1,460 feet north of 

 tho center line of 190th Street ; thence by a 

 viaduct on the same straight line produced to a 

 point 442 feet north from the intersection of said 

 straight line with the center line of the King's 

 Bridge Road ; thence to the right on a curve 

 with a radius of 1,910 feet and a tunnel a 

 distance of 860-6 feet; thence by tangent 138 

 feet; thence by curve to the left with a radius 

 of 1,910 feet, a distance of 350 feet in tunnel and 

 a distance of 510-6 feet by viaduct, to a point on 

 a line coincident with the center line of Audubon 

 Avenue produced and distant 425 feet north 

 from the center line of 217th Street: thence by 

 viaduct and on a tangent coincident with the 

 center line of Audubon Avenue produced across 

 the Government ship canal, and thence by the 

 same tangent and in depressed structure 670 

 feet ; thence on the same tangent and by viaduct 

 to and across Spuyten Duyvil Creek ; and thence 

 on the same tangent by viaduct, depressed 

 stnicture, and tunnel, as the contour of the 

 lands may require, to a point 100 feet north of 

 the center line of Delafield Lane ; thence to the 

 left on a curve with a radius of 1,910 feet to a 

 point 30 feet south from the center line of 

 Delafleld's old lane ; thence by a tangent to a 

 point 112-4 feet south from the south line 

 of Kock Street; thence to the right by a curve 

 with a radius of 500 feet for a distance of 

 220-8 feet to a point in the center line of Fon-t 

 Street 112-4 feet north of the south line of Ruck 

 Street; thence by tangent coincident with the 

 center line of Forest Street to the city limits. 

 Also, a loop from Broadway, under Mail Stre. t, 

 City Hall Park, Park Row, 'and Chambers Street, 



and again connecting with tho Broadway line. 

 Also, u route, the center line diverging from tin- 

 Broadway line at or near Nth Stn.-t, running 

 under I'nion Square to Fourth Avenue-; th<-n<. 

 under Fourth and Park A venues to a |M,int 112-15 

 feet north from the north line of 4<)th Si reel ; 

 thence to the left on arum- with a radius of 

 250 feet for a distance of 154*55 feet ; tin i 

 tangent u distance of 292- is feet to a point 40 "l 

 feet north from the i-outh line of 4:M Stm-t and 

 215-7 feet west from the renter line of Fourth 

 Avenue; thence to the right on a curve with a 

 radius of 250 feet a distance of 124-23 feet; 

 thence by tangent 4<-:5!) feet ; thence to the left 

 on a curve with a radius of 250 feet a distance 

 . of 182-87 feet to a point 4-4 feet north from the 

 north line of 43d Street and l.V.i-r f.-et east 

 from the center line of Madison Avenue : thence 

 by tangent 39'58 feet ; thence to the right on a 

 curve with a radius of 400 feet a distance of 

 332-28 feet to a point in the center line of Madi- 

 son Avenue 65-6 feet north from the north line 

 of 44th Street ; thence under Madison Avenue 

 to the south line of 96th Street ; thence to the 

 right on a curve with a radius of 400 feet for a 

 distance of 240-07 feet ; thence by tangent a 

 distance of 132-98 feet ; thence to the left on 

 a curve with a radius of 400 feet a distance of 

 240-07 feet to the south line of 98th Street at a 

 point distant 175 feet east from the easterly line 

 of Madison Avenue ; running thence by viaduct 

 parallel with Madison Avenue, the center line 

 distant 175 feet east from the easterly line 

 thereof, across streets and private property to a 

 point 124-6 feet north from the line of north 134th 

 Street and distant 175 feet east from the easterly 

 line of Madison Avenue ; thence to the right on 

 a curve with a radius of 857*15 feet a distance 

 of 408'6 feet to a point on the west line of River 

 Street 54 feet 11 inches south from the south 

 line of 136th Street ; thence by tangent across 

 the Harlem river a distance of 400 feet ; thence 

 to the left on a curve to the south line of 134th 

 Street at its intersection with the center line of 

 Walton Avenue; thence by viaduct, depressed 

 structure, and tunnel, as the contour of the 

 lands may require, along the line of Walton 

 Avenue to Stebbins Place : thence to the inter- 

 section of the center lines of Sylvan Avenue and 

 Belmont Place ; thence along the line of Sylvan 

 Avenue to its terminus at Orchard Street; 

 thence in a straight line to the center line of 

 Berrian Avenue at the southerly point thereof; 

 thence along the center line of Berrian Avenue 

 to 1st Street: thence in a straight line to the 

 intersection of the center lines of Kirkside 

 Avenue and Croton Avenue: thence along Kirk- 

 side Avenue to Travers Street, and thence by 

 straight line to and under Jerome Avenue to 

 the north line thereof. 



The general p'an of construction of the loop 

 under Battery Park. State, and Whitehall Street* 

 shall l>e double track: from the Morris Stiv.t 

 junction to near Vesey Street shall be three 

 parallel tracks on the same level, with suitable 

 switches and connect : otis Wtwcen them: from 

 Street to I'.IOth Street on t li,- -t-side 

 line >l:all l>e four parallel tracks on the same 

 level; and thence at ro>s the Government ship 

 canal and Spuyten Duyvil Creek t" 'he city 

 limits shall be two parallel tracks on the samo 





