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Daily News from New York, New York • 146

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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146
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Aids Seminary rH Manhattan Bridge Creaking at hints Joel W. Schenker, president of Temple Beth-El, Cedarhurst, has been chosen chairman of the campaign and planning committee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Manhattan. The Manhattan Bridge, youngest and busiest of the man, consulting engineer, who has a special devotion to bridges, leading off with the Brooklyn Bridge. East River bridges, is causing much worried clucking among the City Fathers these days. She has developed creaking joints because of the strain of an unequal subway load over Stemman told Zurmuhlen that the old devil subway had done the the years.

Manhattan Bridge wrong. Unusual Romanticists and fiction stresses and strains, leading to the GIVE A NEW FACE TO TOUR KITCHEN writers might offer another clue to the bridge's arthritic recent cracking of a girder, were caused by the operation of too many subway trains on one side of the bridge. PI BATH Alaala Mm m. aiaaaa Would Center Tracks. Zurmuhlen's technical descrip m4 MrtWM la mm jaar mt aaastlaa 4m tion of what ails the Brooklyn nun naalifiala.

Easy Bridge's dowdy Bister is: "A tor be aaa ara fWip t. pains- For years, she's been in an ugly duckling spot, overshadowed by the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge nearby and thus ripe for a full-sized inferiority complex. Public Works Commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuheln innocently bolsters the romantic diagnosis when he remarks: "We' have no nickname for the Manhattan Bridge. It's more of a practical, utilitarian design, not an architectural gem like the Brooklyn Bridge.

Asks $2,690,000. Zurmuhlen has asked the City Planning' Commission to okay $2,690,000 to start treating the ugly duckling's ills. The ills are under diagnosis by David B. Stein- 95 '124 Pta.Ua Wil Til Lav aa I art akla. anak ar iaaajr que in the Boor beams wiucn breaks the end trusses." To cure the disease, Zurmuhlen would move the subway tracks 'on the north and sguth aides of the bridge to the center, and thus equalize the Mm aamllnl ka Commissioner ZurmohWa I CO i tn 1 CO VI 1954 Leadership Line with Bandshell Speaker J.

KURTZ ALL STORES BROOKLYN-JAMAICA See Our Full Page TV Ad in Today's Magazine Section 111 ftaA mm burden. Double-deck roadways would replace the tracks on each side of the bridge," he says. "We now have large numbers to the wicked city. The bridge cost 2,000,000, but its present replacement value, Zurmuhlen says, would soar above $75,000,000. He figures the bridge could get successful treatment for its aches and pains at a cost of $21,295,000.

Pfcaaa aja Aa ay lachiataa Saatfa -mmtr Sarrtr II aaa a roadway over the present tracks, and would add another roadway 1L. o-OJUV Ma Oalnllaa with the removal of the tracks. US The Manhattan Bridge, a sus pension bridge opened on Dec. 31, 1909, bears a mighty load. Zurmuhlen estimates it carries almost subway passengers daily.

REPAIR YOUR HOME individuals in vehicles, and, in 1952, in an average 24-hour day it ear Ti iomm mmjmimnt lorn price ned 78,591 automobiles, 17,722 trucks, 163 buses, and 6,177 railroad cars. Gulping traffic which flows both PAIRTINQ CARPENTRY N00FINB SIDINB BATHROOMS PLASTERING CONSTRUCTION BASEMENTS KITCHENS ALTERATIONS CONVERSION! 1 te 2 -FAMILY ways between Flatbush Ave. Extension and the East Side's Canal the bridge and its approaches are 6,855 feet long. 5 Tears to Build. It took five years build the VIOLATIONS REMOVED tmartuite kVcalli reMHnitic boa mm4 multlpl dwelling-.

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