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✓ The Fifth Avenue Association INC EMPIRE STATE 350 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Telephone: PEnnsylvania 6-7900 -2- Bulletin No. 65, November 1931 requires that we have complete information in connection with the attitude of our members on private automobile parking. FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET BRIDGE PLANS REVIVED We have been informed by Colonel George M. Hoffman, district engineer for the War Department, that the North River Bridge Company has again filed plans or a bridge over the Hudson River at 57th Street. These new plans meet the requirements of the War Department in so far as navigation is concerned, by providing for a clearance of two hundred feet at the center of the bridge span. Our members will recall that June 9, 1931, after a vigorous protest by the Association, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley announced that the government could not give its approval to plans for the bridge as then filed. The filing of new plans which will meet the requirements of the War Department reopens the entire controversy. As the leader of the opposition to the bridge, our Association is now preparing to file another brief outlining in detail our reasons for believing that the construction of a bridge at 57th Street over the Hudson River would do irreparable harm to the 57th Street and the midtown area, and also to make personal appearances before local representatives of the War Department to protest against construction of this bridge. Our members who are familiar with the plans for this bridge and who supported our objections last summer, should follow with us developments in connection with these plans and should be prepared to give the active support to our efforts which will be necessary to show the harm such a bridge would do to the midtown district. BELOW THIRTY-FOURTH STREET COMMITEE MEETING On October 29, the Below Thirty-Fourth Street Committee of the Association met to consider activities in connection with the district south of 34th Street. The extension of the Borough Headquarters Squad to the district below 34th. Street between Lexington and Sixth Avenues and the activities of the Association in the elimination of bogging and peddling, pushcart peddlers, and the other nuisances from the below 34th Street area were commented upon favorably by the members of the Committee, as were the efforts of the Association to secure the removal of the Madison Avenue street cars and substitute a bus line on that street to operate south on Madison Avenue to 23rd Street. The Committee expressed satisfaction that everything possible was being done by our offices to bring about this improvement. It was decided to have frequent meetings of this Committee during the coming year, because of the many changes taking place south of 34th Street ARMISTICE DAY FLAG DISPLAY The display of flags on Armistice Day has caused many of our members to inquire whether flags should be displayed on that day at half-mast or full staff. The flag should be displayed at full staff. IMORTANT NOTICE AND INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH CHARTIABLE SOLICIATIONS At this season our members are deluged with requests for charitable donations, advertisements, or requests to purchase tickets for benefits. It has been our experience that members who consulted us in connection with these solicitations have often been saved extravagant and unwarranted expense in responding to questionable appeals. For this reasons and because we realize the difficulties that many of our members would have in checking upon all of the requests that will be made of them during the next few weeks, we are enclosing a sample questionnaire, additional copies of which can be secured from our offices. If you will hand this questionnaire to the solicitor, ask that it be filled out in detail and then send it to us, we will be able to give you helpful information which will save your time in investigating the source of the appeal. "KEEP THE FIFTH AVNUE SECTION FIRST IN THE WORLD" Thomas W. Hughes Secretary Wm. J. Pedrick President
