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TO THE HONORABLE THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK:

The undersigned endorses heartily the application of The Fifth Avenue Association, Inc., and urges that appropriate legislation be passed to minimize the holding of parades and public functions in the principal shopping and commercial centers of the City.
We respectfully ask that Subdivision 2 of Section 38 of Article 3 of Chapter 24 of the Code of Ordinances be amended to include the following provision prescribing routes for parades within the City of New York:

The commissioner shall not grant a permit for the use of any street or any public place, or material portion thereof, which is ordinarily subject to great congestion of traffic and is chiefly of a business or mercantile character, or, in the Borough of Manhattan, other than Riverside Drive between 135th Street and 7n2 Street; 5th Avenue between 60th Street and 110th Street; Rutgers Street between East Broadway and Canal Street; Canal Street between Rutgers Street and Eldridge Street; Eldridge Street between Canal Street and Houston Street; Houston Street between Eldridge Street and First Avenue; First Avenue between Houston Street and 13th Street; 13th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue and Second Avenue between 13th Street and Houston Street; in the borough of Brooklyn, Eastern Parkway between Howard Avenue and Prospect Park Plaza, and in the Borough of Bronx, Grand Concourse between 161st Street and Kingsbridge Road, except upon those holidays or Sundays, when the place of business along the route proposed are closed, or on other days between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 9 a..;

We also urge that paragraph "D" of the present Ordinance which sanctions the granting of permits for occasions of "extraordinary public interest" be omitted.
We make this request in order that business and property interest in this section of the City may be relieved of the burden of congestion and loss which at present accompanies the great number of parades held on Fifth Avenue during business hours.
Dated, New York, 1924
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