RECORD OF TESTIMONY AND STATEMENTS IN RELATION TO 155 



NECESSITY FOR DISTRICTING PLAN 



corner lots ; for C districts the areas should be respectively 60 per cent 

 and 80 per cent; for D districts 55 per cent and 75 per cent, and for E 

 districts the number of families should be limited to fifteen per acre. 



These suggestions may seem severe for outlying boroughs, but except 

 in rare instances they will not affect existing land values materially, nor do 

 they involve as much restriction as the limitations proposed by the Com- 

 mission for lower Manhattan. 



Areas adjacent to existing parks, and playgrounds should be restricted 



As the City cannot at present make ideal provision of parks and play- 

 grounds, the areas adjacent to existing ones should be restricted against 

 industry. 



New district needed 



A new district or type of restriction should be adopted against industry 

 of any kind, i. e., excluding the use of two stories, or 25 per cent of the 

 floor area for manufacture, but permitting retail stores. 



Areas which should be restricted against industry 



In every borough a much larger area should be restricted against in- 

 dustry. In general, no large area should be unrestricted in a district now 

 chiefly, or even largely, tenement. In established and developed areas, few 

 blocks should be unrestricted in which there are at present less than five 

 hundred workers in factories. 



Manhattan 



Seventh Avenue, south of 13th Street, should be restricted, also many 

 more blocks and side streets, in Greenwich Village, on the lower East 

 Side and on both sides of the borough to 34th Street, except a few blocks 

 back from the waterfront. 



The Bronx 



The unrestricted area along the waterfront should be narrowed to 

 not over half to three-quarters of a mile, especially along the East River 

 from the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad to the Sound and 

 on Eastchester Creek. 



Brooklyn 



In Greenpoint the residential district should be extended north to 

 Dupont Street, between Franklin and Oakland Streets. 



In Williamsburg a larger area should be restricted and the unrestricted 

 area along the waterfront should be narrowed. 



A large part of the Red Hook District should be restricted. 



The area around Jamaica Bay now " undetermined " should be defi- 

 nitely restricted. 



More of the area bounded by Grand Street, Flushing, Nostrand and 

 Lexington Avenues should be restricted; also more of Brownsville. 



Queens 



Much more of Long Island City should be restricted; the unrestricted 

 area along the East River and Newtown and Flushing creeks should be 

 narrowed. 



The area around Jamaica Bay, now " undetermined," should be defi- 

 nitely restricted. The unrestricted area, east of Flushing Bay, should be 

 reduced. 



