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COMMISSION ON BUILDING DISTRICTS 



advantage on account of the fact that it leaves the streets more free as play 

 spaces for the children. 



This is a very important provision. We ran a street playground last 

 summer and are contemplating one this summer, and we unfortunately 

 decided on a street that had a large manufacturing plant located on it and 

 before the summer was out we had to change that street playground. There 

 were streets all around us that were given over to residences and those 

 streets were filled with children. There was not nearly the danger to life 

 and limb on those residence streets. An association such as ours can pro- 

 vide for only a few of the thousands of children on the streets of Green- 

 point, and I think the restrictions on these streets very excellent indeed 

 from the standpoint of protecting the children. 



Statement by J. Bernstein, Traffic Expert, Fifth Avenue 

 Association, March 30, 1916 

 Traffic counts in Fifth avenue section 



I wish to state with the utmost emphasis that all the statistics and facts 

 quoted here have been gathered with no thought to use them as arguments 

 for or against the limitation of building heights or the restriction in use of 

 buildings. All this material was collected solely from the point of view of 

 traffic study. Some of the figures quoted are part of a traffic count taken 

 during the month of November, 1915, by the traffic division of the Police 

 Department. Other counts were made by the New York Railways Co., and 

 by the Citizens' Street Traffic Committee ; while the detailed traffic statistics 

 contained herein were gathered under my direction and supervision, to be 

 used in determining the advisability of street widenings, the removal of 

 building encroachments, the regulation of traffic and the possibility of sub- 

 surface crossings for pedestrians. These counts have been taken at various 

 times during the last three years. 



Traffic conditions at various important points are reflected by the 

 following figures ascertained by the Police Department between the hours 

 of 8:30 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. : 



fifth avenue 



Vehicles Pedestrians 



Fifth Ave. and 14th St 11,927 45,525 



Fifth Ave. and 20th St 13,240 73,100 



Fifth Ave. and 23d St 11,392 48,411 



Fifth Ave. and 31st St 13,490 72,000 



Fifth Ave. and 32d St 13,760 74,610 



Fifth Ave. and 33d St 14,120 78,200 



Fifth Ave. and 34th St 14,360 146,300 



Fifth Ave. and 38th St 15,460 124,250 



Fifth Ave. and 42d St 18,800 137,780 



Fifth Ave. and 59th St 14,220 24,888 



SIXTH AVENUE 



Vehicles Pedestrians 



Sixth Ave. and 14th St 8,662 51,875 



Sixth Ave. and 23d St 8,020 106,829 



Sixth Ave. and 34th St 9,441 102,480 



