extension of Fulton Street subway, 142
financial issues affecting Board of Transportation, 141–142
meetings on Bronx subway issues, 76, 80–82, 83–84, 91
meetings on Burke Avenue line, 169
opposition to continuation of World’s Fair extension of Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown line, 43, 44–45
purchase of New York, Westchester and Boston Railway tracks, 194
relationship with Mayor La Guardia, 258
role in creation of Board of Transportation, 10–11, 202
role in Transit Construction Commission Plan, 7–8
Transit Construction Commission plan for service to Staten Island, 126–127, 128, 133
Demarest, William C., 112
Democratic Party, 132
Derrick, Peter, 256
Deutsch, Bernard S., 99
Depot Road, 51, 60
Dewey, Thomas E., 230, 237, 238, 239, 240
plans for financing transit, 238
plans for the Transit Authority, 239
Diamond, William J., 220–221
Dohr, James L., 105, 186, 194
Doig, Jameson W., 129
Donahue, Charles D., 10
Donnelly, James F., 92
Donnelly, William T., 113, 114
Dos Passos, John Randolph, 149–150, 168
Douglaston, 58, 59, 68
Douglaston Civic Association, 59
Downtown–Lower Manhattan Association, 216
Drew, Clarence A., 48
Dual Systems Contracts, 70, 236, 259
approval of contracts, 4, 55
construction of lines, 6, 10, 62, 130
impact of McAdoo plan on contracts, 4, 153
public hearings on lines, 33–34
planning for lines, 28, 47, 48, 50, 53, 110, 125, 201
plans for next steps, 36, 116, 137, 138, 236
Durfee, Edward S., 230
Dwyer, Thomas B. 197
Dyre Avenue, 82
Dyre Avenue line, 196, 228, 229, 233, 234, 241, 261
Dyson, Timothy J., 25
Eagles Street, 60
East Bronx, 82, 197
East Bronx Transit Committee, 77
East Elmhurst, 47
East Flatbush, 110, 111, 113, 114, 118
East Flatbush Taxpayers Association, 111–112
East 76th Street, 236
East Side access, 149, 153, 159, 168
Eastchester, 185
Eastchester Civic and Taxpayers Association, 191
Eastchester Gardens Houses, 234
Eastchester Road, 100
Eastern Parkway, 113, 119, 227
Eastern Parkway Line, 111, 112, 114, 120, 152
Ebbets, Charles H., 32
Ebbets Field, 31
Edenwald, 91, 103
Edenwald Taxpayers Association, 103
Education, Board of, 175
Ehrhart, Leo, 80, 99, 100, 102, 104
plan for Burke Avenue line, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105
8th Avenue–Amsterdam Avenue line, 76
Eighth Avenue Business Men’s Association, 160
8th Avenue–Washington Heights Line, 11, 16, 38, 71, 76, 78, 119, 140, 160, 205
Eken, Andrew J., 93–94, 154
Elevated Subway Lines, 86
construction of new lines, 48
cemolition of lines, 205
opposition to building new lines, 13, 25, 26, 27, 29, 48, 51–52, 53, 54, 59, 86–87, 88, 89–90, 91, 111, 115, 256, 257
support for building new lines, 53, 54, 55–56, 87, 88, 119
Elkins, Louis, 101, 102, 104, 105
Ellard, William, 234
Ellis Island, 125
Elliot, Gilbert, 113
Ellsworth, T. Gardner, 62–63
Elmhurst, 47
Empire on the Hudson, 129
Empire City Racing Association, 233
Engel, Eliot L., 224
Erie Railroad, 167
Erlitz, Jeffrey, 104
Estabrook, Charles M., 202
Estimate, New York City Board of, 89, 148
allocation of funding for Burke Avenue line, 169, 175, 179
allocation of funding for Chrystie Street line, 216
approval of Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown and 8th Avenue–Washington Heights line plans, 38, 41
approval of Burke Avenue line plans, 105, 137, 194
approval of elevated line demolition 206–208, 213
approval of 53rd Street line plans, 40
approval of final 8th Avenue–Concourse line connection plans, 77
approval of 14th Street–Canarsie Line extension, 257
approval of Fulton Street line extension, 137, 145
approval of New York, Westchester and Boston Railway purchase, 192, 193–194
approval of 63rd Street tunnel, 249
approval of street closing plan to facilitate Curtiss Airport, 92
approval of Utica Avenue line plans, 114
capital budget hearings, 191, 215
conflicts with New York State Transit Commission, 128–129, 130
consideration of Dual System Contracts, 30
discussion of Ashland Place connection, 138
discussion of assessment plan to finance subway construction, 117–118
discussion of Brighton Beach Line and subway to Staten Island, 124
discussion of Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown line plans, 39–40
discussion of Burke Avenue line, 97–99, 100–103, 173, 175–176, 178, 229
discussion of fare increase, 228
discussion of Flushing line plans, 56–58, 60–61, 71
discussion of Fulton Street subway extension, 142
discussion of Narrows Tunnel, 128–129, 131, 132
discussion of 2nd Avenue subway plan, 218, 219, 223
discussion of 64th Street Tunnel, 249
discussion of Staten Island subway tunnel, 126, 127, 135
lease of transit system to New York City Transit Authority, 239
Rockaway Beach line purchase, 15, 237
sale of elevated line structural steel to foreign nations, 207–208
Subway Committee, 4, 29, 36, 58, 201
Transit Committee, 126
Transit system funding, 231–232, 238
vote on extension of Queens Boulevard line, 229
World’s Fair Committee, 43
Evander Childs High School, 89, 168, 194
Far Rockaway line, 243–244
Farband Houses, 77
fare increases, 231, 232, 240
Federal Register, 225
Feldman, Justin, 220
Ferry Point, 237
Fields, C. Virginia, 224
5th Avenue, 77
Fifth Avenue Association, 160, 249
5th Avenue Elevated, 25
57th Street, 156
53rd Street Line, 202, 203
1st Avenue Association, 204, 208
1st Avenue subway, 78, 200, 202
1st Avenue Subway Association, 202
Fitch, Joseph, 51–53, 60
five-cent fare, 227, 231, 257
Flatbush, 109, 119
Flatbush Avenue, 110, 112, 114
Flatbush Chamber of Commerce, 119, 133
Flatbush Gardens Civic Association, 119
Flatbush Taxpayers Association, 2, 113
Flatlands, 110
Flatlands Civic Association, 119, 120
Flushing, 51, 65, 68
description of area in 1912, 48
impact of subway construction on the development of the area, 73
objections to elevated line, 48, 53–54
plans for inclusion in Dual Systems Contracts, 49–50, 53, 55, 56, 58
proposal to extend Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown line toward, 43
Flushing Business Men’s Association, 50–51, 52–53, 55, 62, 65, 67
Flushing Daily Times, 56, 68
Flushing Evening Journal, 58, 68
Flushing line, 227, 262
connection to Crosstown Elevated, 36
connection to Port Washington and Whitestone LIRR lines, 60, 62–71, 257
connection to 2nd Avenue El, 20, 72–73, 207
construction problems at Willets Point, 72
discussion of building an elevated line through Flushing, 51–54, 55–59
extension to Bayside, 16, 56, 59, 61–62
extension to Main Street, 72
extension to Whitestone and College Point, 59–61
extension to Willets Point, 71–72
impact of line on development of Flushing, 73
impact of line on development of northern Queens, 47
inclusion in Board of Transportation capital plans, 72
plans for line, 49–51, 55–58
westward extensions, 71, 74, 159, 163
Flushing Meadows, 64, 71, 72
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, 44
Flynn, Edward J., 132
Flynn, William J., 92, 96
Ford, Gerald R., 223
Fordham Road, 82, 86
Forest Hills, 43, 251
Fort Hamilton, 129
Fort Hamilton Parkway, 135
14th Street, 114, 115
14th Street District, 114
14th Street line, 111
14th Street–Canarsie line, 28, 40, 118, 219, 257
extension to New Jersey, 159–160, 164
4th Avenue line:
Ashland Place connection, 36
Extension to Staten Island, 18, 121, 123, 124, 127, 129, 135, 152
IRT plans for lines, 200
Original proposal, 2
Fox, Maskell E., 192
Franklin Avenue, 28, 30
Franklin Avenue line, 36, 43, 44
Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, 250
Freedomland, 235
Fresh Pond Road–Winfield line, 11, 14
Fullen, Robert, 185
Fulton Elevated Railroad Company, 26
Fulton Street, 110, 245
Fulton Street Elevated, 137
approval of connection with Fulton Street subway, 148
Ashland Place connection, 137, 138, 139, 140
demolition of inner section, 20, 142–143, 144
impact of line on downtown Brooklyn, 137
inclusion in 1929 Board of Transportation capital plan, 14
inclusion in 1936 Board of Transportation capital plan, 16
linkage with Crosstown Elevated, 28
original plans for line, 24, 25
plans for express track, 36
plans for connection with Nassau Street line, 137, 147, 148
plans for connection with Rockaway Beach line and Fulton Street subway, 235, 237
plans for demolition of middle section, 144
plans for extension of line into Queens, 47
plans for other Manhattan connections, 139–140
Fulton Street subway, 118, 120, 235–236
extension to Euclid Avenue, 19, 143, 148, 231
plans for connection with Fulton Street Elevated, 16, 140–141, 143, 144
plans for connection with Rockaway Beach line and Fulton Street El, 235, 237
plans for extension to Southern Queens, 14, 137, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 227, 246
F. W. Murner Sugar Refining Company, 27
Garrett, Charles, 259
Garvin, Edwin L., 105, 106–107, 172, 183, 186
Gaynor, William Jay, 2, 114, 125, 151
concern over subway plans, 4
“cornfields,” 47, 49
death of, 61
discussion of Flushing Line proposal, 55, 57–58, 59
role in in opposing nineteenth century plans for the Crosstown Elevated, 27
support for legislation blocking twentieth century plan for the Crosstown Elevated, 35
Gehringer, Martin, 14
George Washington Bridge, 164, 166
Germany, 207, 208
Gilbert Elevated Railroad, 23
Gilhooey, John J., 248
Giuliani, Rudolph W., 224
Giraud, Charles P., 77
Giraud/Welsch Plan, 77–78, 80–81
Glendale, 13
Goethals, George W., 131
Goldblatt, Charles, 82–83
Goldstein, Jacob, 20
Good, Mrs. William (Marie Campbell), 136, 285
Graeser, Jacob, 58
Grand Central Terminal, 149, 150, 153, 162, 163, 184, 201, 250
Grand Concourse (Grand Boulevard and Concourse) 13, 76, 77, 82, 83, 256
Great Britain, 208
Green, Mark, 224
Gregory, Julian A., 131
Greenpoint, 25, 26, 28, 35
Greenpoint Avenue, 154
Greenwich Village, 150
Gresser, Lawrence, 48, 50
Gross, Charles P., 20–21, 211, 227, 228–229, 230, 259
on need to expand and upgrade subway system, 227
relationship with Mayor O’Dwyer, 230
speech on Bronx subways; 229
Gross, Max, 78
Grumman Aircraft Corporation, 208
Guider, Joseph A., 39–40, 41, 241
Gun Hill Road, 75, 78, 198
Haack, Robert W., 216
Hague, Frank, 133–134, 164
Hall, Cornelius A., 213, 228
Halley, Charles V., Jr., 91, 98, 99, 100, 193, 197, 206
Halley, Rudolph, 239, 240
Hammersley Estate, 85
Hansen, Stephen C., 220
Hapgood, Norman, 132
Haring, Alexander H., 76
Harkness, LeRoy T., 67, 118, 129, 132, 154
Harlem, 109, 162
Harlem Board of Commerce, 107
Harlem River, 115, 204
Harmon, Clifford B., 109
Harmon Foundation, 136
Harmon, W. Burke, 134
Harmon, William E., 109–110, 112, 116, 118, 120, 136
Harmon National Real Estate Company, 118, 134
Harriman, W. Averill, 241
Harris Structural Steel Company, 207, 208
Harvey, George U., 43, 44, 72, 105, 178, 186
Haskins, DeWitt C., 147
Hearst, William Randolph, 131
Heck, Oswald D., 215
Hedley, Frank, 72
Heller, Simeon, 243
Heyward, William, 64
Hearst, William Randolph, 36, 64
Hell Gate Bridge, 167
Helmbuch, Mary, 82
Henringer, Frank C., 223
Henry Morgenthau Company, 117
Highbridge, 77
Hillside Houses, 154, 176
access provided by Burke Avenue line, 97–98, 104, 173, 177, 178, 190
effect of Ehrhart Plan on access, 101
opening ceremonies, 99
opposition by Mayor McKee, 94–95
participation of representatives in Burke Avenue Line hearings, 103
planning for, 93–95
Hodge, Henry W., 67
Hoff, Almeth W., 116
Holler, James, 81, 83
Holton, Harold M., 180–181, 192
Holy Name Society of the Church of the Nativity, 180
Home Boroughs Care Advertising Company, 260
Hoover, Herbert C., 77
House, Irwin L., 202
Howell, James, 23, 24
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M, Hudson Tubes), 4, 133–134, 149, 153, 164, 166, 205, 244
early efforts to build, 149–150
plans for further extensions, 150, 153
Hudson and Manhattan Stations:
Christopher Street, 150
Exchange Place, 134
Hudson Terminal, 150
9th Street, 150
Hudson River, 113, 164, 165
Hudson River Bridge (57th Street Bridge), 65–166
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1
Hughes, Richard J., 168
Humanizing Subway Entrances, 222
Hunter College, 81, 220
Hu
nts Point, 80, 182, 254
Hunts Point Avenue, 80
Hutchinson River, 78, 84, 92
Hutchinson River Parkway, 84
Hylan, John F., 118, 240, 255
advocacy for five-cent fare, 259–261
appointment of John Delaney as Board of Transportation Chairman, 11
appointment of John Delaney to administration post, 6
campaign for third term, 132–133
conflicts with Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 36
conflicts with Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, 38, 39
conflicts with New York State Transit Commission, 8, 38, 70, 140, 257
conflicts with Port of New York Authority, 129
death of, 136
delays in subway construction, 255–256, 257
discussion of Flushing line plan, 70
discussion of plans for tunnel to Staten Island, 126
election as Mayor, 36
employment with Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 32
lack of a planning agency during term of office, 256
McAvoy Commission investigation, 130–131
Narrows Tunnel groundbreaking, 129–130
opposition to Ashland Place connection, 138
opposition to assessment plan to finance construction of the Utica Avenue line, 116
opposition to Crosstown Elevated, 32, 33–34
opposition of passenger rail tunnel to Staten Island, 126
plans for city-owned subways, 37
proposal for East Side trunk line, 203
support for creation of Board of Transportation, 10–11
support for Guider plan for Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown line, 40
support for improved access to Staten Island, 125
support for Narrows Tunnel, 127, 132
Idlewild, 92
Idlewild Airport, 92, 227, 258
Impellitteri, Vincent H., 213, 236, 237, 239, 240
plans for financing transit, 238
proposal for Transit Authority, 238
Independent City-Owned Subway System (IND), 245, 260
Concourse line extension, 178, 181, 185, 228–229
connection of Fulton Street subway with Fulton Street El, 243–244
first phase plan, 11, 118, 140, 244
Mayor Hylan’s role in building the IND, 255–256
second phase plan, 11, 111, 82, 86, 119, 133, 140, 203, 256
start of service to Brooklyn, 141
Ingersoll, Raymond V., 175, 176
Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), 117, 194, 235, 245, 256
attempts to increase fares, 257–258, 260
competition with BRT to build new lines, 4, 150
desire to operate Tri-Borough Plan lines, 200
extension into the Bronx, 75
IRT “H,” 201, 290
opposition to demolition of 6th Avenue El, 206
plans for extensions to New Jersey, 150, 153
plans for Nostrand Avenue line, 110
plans for Utica Avenue line, 111
postwar service upgrading, 228
purchase of Metropolitan Street Railway Company, 199