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OFFICIAL JOURNAL. Voi.. XXVII. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1899. NUMBER 8,028. The City owns the plot of ground on the northerly side of Ffty-sixth street, being on Twelfth avenue 55 feet ii inches, and on Fifty-sixth street about 710 fe ts4iown on the diagram ~ATI below: TWELFTH AVENUE. COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND OF Ni THE CITY OF NEW YORK. N at Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a Meeting held at the Mayor's Office, at 2 o'clock P. ti!, on Friday, September 15, 1899. z UI Present at roll-call—Robert A. Van Wyck, Mayor ; Edgar J. Levey, Deputy and Acting UI Comptroller ; John H. Campbell, Deputy Chamberlain, and Robert Muh, Chairman, Committee F IL on Finance, Board of Aldermen. N, On motion of the Deputy Comptroller, Mr. Reeves E. Selmes was unanimously elected temporary Secretary of the meeting. The minutes of the meeting held July 35, 1899, were read and approved. The following communication was received from the Fire Department relative to assignment of City property at Fifty-sixth street and Twelfth avenue, Borough of Manhattan. BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, August 3, 1899, Hon. ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, Mayor, and Chairman of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund Six—I have the honor, upon recommendation of the Chief of Department, to respectfully request your Honorable Board to please assign for the use of this Department, as a site for its repair shops, the plot of ground belonging to the City situated on northeast corner of Fifty-sixth street and Twelfth avenue, Borough of Manhattan, the said premises being in dimensions about 55 feet on Twelfth avenue, and 500 feet on Fifty-sixth street. The recommendation of the Chief is based upon a report, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, from the Foreman in charge of Repair Shops at present located at Nos. 13o and 132 West Third street, Borough of Manhattan. The above premises were built about a quarter of a century ago and are no longer sufficiently adequate for the requirements of the service. I feel confident that an examination of the accompanying report will convince your Honorable Board of the necessity of transferring this important branch of the Department to a more convenient locality, where a building may be erected which will provide greater facilities and better accommodation for carrying on the work. The site upon which the present repair shops are located is also property of the City, and the premises could be utilized by organizing a double-apparatus company. ELEVENTH AVENUE. I have the honor to remain, Yours respectfully, JOHN J. SCANNELL, Commissioner. Within the space applied for by the Commissioner (within the heavy lines on the diagram), a plot 150 feet by 55 feet I t inches, located i5o feet easterly from Twelfth avenue, is under lease from the City to the California Asphalt Company for the term of five years, from April t5, 1896. One of JULY 10, 1899. the covenants of the lease is to the effect that the City may, if the property is needed by the City Hon. JOHN J. SCANNELL, Fire Commissioner: for public purposes, possession thereof can be regained by gi ring a notice of three mon:E::::o the SiR—I have the honor to report that owing to the inadequacy of the Repair Shops at Nos. lessee. 130 and 132 West Third street to meet the requirements of this department there are at present I think the plot asked for by the Commissioner well suited for the purposes named, and that 'twenty apparatus waiting to come to these shops for necessary repairs, which cannot be brought the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund may properly assign the said property for the use of the 'in as the shops are entirely too small. Fire Department. Time and again I am obliged to make repairs to apparatus in front of these shops, on the The description of the property is as follows street, and now that the electric cars are constantly running on Third street, I find it very Beginning at the intersection of the northerly line of Fifty-sixth street with the easterly line difficult to perform this work on the street. of Twelfth avenue ; running thence easterly along the northerly line of Fifty-sixth street 500 The blacksmith shop is in the basement of the building ; consequently the men are obliged feet ; thence northerly parallel to Twelfth avenue 55 feet and I t inches ; thence westerly paral- to work by as and electric light all day. lel to Fifty-sixth street Soo fee: to the easterly side of Twelfth avenue ; thence southerly along the The paint shop is on the top floor and is entirely to small. I am compelled to have our hose easterly line of Twelfth avenue 55 feet and I I inches to the place of beginning. wagons painted on the first floor after working hours ; otherwise the smoke from the blacksmith Respectfully, shop would spoil the job ; and this means overtime. EUG. E. MCLEAN, Engineer. The building is overweighted by the duplicate wheels and axles which we are compelled to keep on hand, and only recently the various floors were propped up by order of the Building Resolved, That, of the land owned by the City, situated on the northeast corner of Fifty-sixth Department. street and Twelfth avenue, Borough of Manhattan, a plot 55 feet is inches on Twelfth avenue by The location is not at all convenient, it is too far down town—more especially since the growth 5co feet on Fifty-sixth street, as shown on the diagram of the Engin=er of the Department of of the Department has extended mainly to the north. There are now 28 companies south, and 65 companies north of the shop. It would greatly facilitate the work, if the shop was further north. Finance, in his report dated August t6, 1899, and this day presented to the Commissioners of The horses and wagons attached to these shops are stabled in Chrystie street, quite a distance the Sinking Fund, be and the same is hereby set apart and assigned to the Fire Department for from these shops, and is very inconvenient. When a breakdown occurs outside of working hours use as a site for its repair shops t and one of the wrecking gang is obliged to go to the stable and bring the horse and wagon to the Resolved, That the Comptroller be and hereby is authorized to notify the lessees of a shop, in order to procure what may be needed for the wreck, whereas if the horses and wagons were stabled in the same building, or adjoining the shops, much valuable time would be saved. portion of said property that the City requires the use thereof for public purposes, and that said These. shops were placed in the service of the Department in 1874. At that time there were lease shall expire three months after receipt of such notice. 64 cottjianies in the Department, while now there are v3, an increase of 45 per cent., which natur- The report was accepted and the resolution was unanimously adopted. ally increases the amount of work and number of repairs. In order to facilitate the repairs and keep the apparatus in serviceable condition the size of the shop should keep pace with the growth of the Department. All the new apparatus and hose for the five boroughs are tested under my supervision, and as The following communication was received from the Fire Department, relative to a renewal there are no facilities for making these tests in these shops, I am obliged to run all over the City to of the lease of premises occupied by Engine Company No. 63, on Westchester avenue, Wakefield, find a suitable place to make the tests. Borough of The Bronx. I am informed that the City owns a piece of ground on the northeast corner of Fifty-sixth street and Twelfth avenue--about 55 feet on Twelfth avenue and Soo feet on Fifty-sixth street, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, August 4, 1899. which, as far as I can learn, is the most desirable site that can be procured. it is more central, and Hon. ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, Mayor, and Chairman Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: large enough to erect a building to meet all the requirements of the Department for many years, including stable room for horses and wagons. SIR—I have the honor, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Department, respectfully to The dimensions of the present building are 4734 feet rear, 5oJ feet front, and 79 feet deep. request that your Honorable Board will please authorize the renewal of the lease from Stephen Yours respectfully, Toepfer, Wakefield, New York City, of the premises occupied by Engine Co. No. 63 of this PATRICK F. RYAN, Foreman in charge of Repair Shops. Department, situated on the north side of Westchester avenue, fro teet from the White Plains (Signed) road, in the late Village of Wakefield, Borough of The Bronx, for a term of five years, from In connection therewith the Deputy Comptroller presented the following report of the November t, 189g, at an annual rental of $420, payable quarterly, the City to furnish its own Engineer of the Department of Finance, and offered the following resolution : water, light and heat, make its own repairs and provide janitor service, if required, the owner to pay the taxes. • AUGUST t6, 1899. The dimensions of the lot on which the building stands are 20 feet in width by 85 feet in Hen.