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WISCONSIN 1200 The Fifth Avenue Association (INCORPORATED) 358 Fifth Avenue, New York City AT 34th STREET TO OUR MEMBERS: BULLETIN NO. 14 - APRIL 1926 PARKS AND SQUARES. After a year of exhaustive study of conditions in connection with park upkeep throughout the United States, under the guidance of the Chairman of our Parks and Squares Committee, Mr. Max. Schling, we have filed an application with the Board of Estimate and Apportionment containing a plan which we consider to be the only practical and radical one yet promulgated for the rehabilitation and refertilization of Central Park. We regret that it is impossible, through the medium of this Bulletin, to outline the plan in general, but we will be pleased to furnish a copy to any member, upon request. TRAFFIC. There is now in the process of making, upon the direction of our Board of Directors, a strong committee, representing all the various sections covered by our Association, to go into the question of parking. This committee, when appointed, will make a very exhaustive study of the parking situation and will prepare a questionnaire to be submitted to our members in order that we may be in a position to express the desires of the Association when the matter comes up for discussion before the Police Commissioner and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. BELOW TWENTY-THIRD STREET. All arrangements have been completed between the Washington Square Association and our Association whereby Mr. Robert H. Koehler, Attorney, will represent the property owners in the proceedings in connection with the proposed rezoning of the property faci [[facing]] Washington Square, so as to limit to one hundred feet the height of buildings hereafter erected. BELOW THIRTY-FOURTH STREET. A very important meeting of the Below Thirty-fourth Street Committee was held under the direction of Mr. Emil W. Kohn, its Chairman, on Thursday, March 25th, and the work of the Association in connection with that particular section was discussed at length. This committee has recently been reorganized, and it is our feeling that this new and stronger committee will prove very effective. UPPER FIFTH AVENUE WIDENING. We are glad to report that, as a result of the opposition filed by us, well supported by the property owners, the proposed plan of the Borough President to widen Fifth Avenue north of 60th Street, by taking fifteen feet from the present easterly sidewalk and causing the removal of all encroachments beyond the building line, has been withdrawn and a new plan has been submitted by him to widen the roadway only five feet, by taking the same from the easterly sidewalk and permitting all encroachments to remain. This modified plan has received the endorsement of the property owners and the Above Fifty-ninth Street Committee, through its Chairman, Mr. William W. Hoppin. The amended plan satisfies every possible immediate traffic requirement and, at the same time, preserves the architectural character of the homes in that section and saves the property owners thousands and thousands of dollars. MADISON AVENUE. As previously reported, the signal lights regulating traffic on Madison Avenue were officially turned on by our President, Col. Michael Friedsam, on Tuesday, February 23rd. Already, a marked improvement has been noted, and the safe and orderly movement of pedestrian and vehicular traffic has proved to be of material aid to business. PARK AVENUE. The new traffic signal lights regulating traffic north of 57th Street were officially turned on by the General Manager of the Association on Friday, March 12th. The installation of the system has removed the dangerous situation from which Park Avenue has been suffering. In addition to the present signals, two are now in the course of erection at 51st Street, and two others will be erected at 74th and 86th Streets. A plan is being studied whereby the traffic on Park, Madison and Fifth Avenues will be synchronized in the very near future.
