New York City of the Future 
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THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY 
COMMITTEE ON PARKS 
AND PUBLIC.;PLACES 
THE PROPOSED REARRANGEMENT 
OF COLUMBUS CIRCLE 
As recommended by The Municipal Art Society's Committee 
on Parks and Public Places 
solution of the difficulty of inter-borough 
transportation, later experience has called at¬ 
tention to the tunnel as more economical and 
capable of handling freight with less disturb¬ 
ance and less friction. So far has this opin¬ 
ion gained ground that it has even been sug¬ 
gested to stop building bridges and to con¬ 
centrate the entire energy upon the tunnels. 
As a matter of fact, both bridges and tun¬ 
nels are necessary. Not only is it pro¬ 
posed to complete the old tunnel under 
the North River, considered some years 
ago, connecting Jersey City with Manhat¬ 
tan at Christopher Street, but the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad tunnel has been projected 
and is about to be started. Tunnels connect- 
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A SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT 
OF BRYANT PARK 
Designed by Carrere & Hastings in connection with the 
New York Public Library 
ing Manhattan with the Borough of Brooklyn 
are also under discussion ; two of these, at 
least, will be executed in the near future. 
These are but a small proportion of the tun¬ 
nels necessary and eventually to be built. 
Some of them will be, no doubt, exclusively 
for freight, while others will be for passenger 
traffic and trolley car lines, thus duplicating 
in a small way the London system of 
underground transit. It is regrettable that 
when the experiment of the underground 
transit was tried in 1870 it was not adopted 
by the city instead of the elevated system. 
Expense would have been saved had this 
been the case, and the City would not only 
have been materially benefited, but would 
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