(10) To the Fire Department, the temporary joint use with the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, of rooms Nos. 2346-2352, containing 3,200 square feet, not subdivided, be allotted. (11) To the Department of Street Cleaning, the temporary use of rooms 23422344, containing 882 square feet, heretofore allotted to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, be allotted. Mayor's Committee on Municipal Courses. (a) The Director of Municipal Courses, acting for the College of the City of New York, requests the permanent assignment of space in the Municipal Building, as follows: (1) As an administrative office, one room, area about 190 square feet, for exclusive use. (2a) As stenotype room, one room, area about 280 square feet. The rooms (2a) and (2b) above to be assigned for exclusive use by the College, from September 15, 1916, to June 15, 1917. (b) Request is further made for the privilege of holding lectures in other rooms after business hours of the departments to which the rooms are assigned, such use in no wise to interfere with the business regularly conducted in them. The lectures are planned to be given beginning about September 15, 1916, and ending about June 15, 1917. The courses of instruction are open only to employees of The City of New York. Fees are charged by the College and paid by the students in these courses. The fees are estimated to be sufficient only to meet the bare cost of giving the courses. The College of the City of New York is a department of the City. The courses of instruction to be given in the Municipal Building are in all respects under the control of a committee appointed by the Mayor. In view of the report by the Director of the Courses (Calendar No. 12), your Committee requests instructions as to whether this activity shall be housed in the Municipal Building. Memorandum. The joint occupancy by the Committee on Unemployment and the Committee on National Defense of the same group of rooms having been found practicable, the room No. 852, formerly allotted to the Committee on Unemployment, may be made available for other assignment. Temporarily this room will be occupied by a part of the force of the Commission on Pensions. Upon completion of the certain removable partitions in rooms 840-844, heretofore allotted to the Commission on Pensions, the whole force of that Commission will be quartered in the latter rooms. The Warrant Division of the Mayor's Office should be permanently located in the building. It was placed temporarily in room 1220, between the offices of the Commissioner of Accounts and those of the Central Purchasing Committee. 1 desirable location adjoining the offices of the Department of Finance (Stock and Bond Division), and the City Chamberlain, may be made available by relocating the Examining Board of Plumbers in the building. The latter may be satisfactorily quartered on floor 9, in room 909, heretofore assigned to the Department of Taxes and Assessments, but not now needed by that Department, and in room 925, an unassigned interior filing room. Of the offices vacated by the Examining Board of Plumbers, room 856 will be sufficient for the Warrant Division, and room 854 is desired by the City Chamberlain to quarter a force to be employed on new work which has been assigned to that office. Room 1220 will be available for future assignment Pending the operation of the law under which the Board of Standards and Appeals will be organized, as well as that under which the Department of Plant and Structures is being reorganized out of the former Department of Bridges, temporary accommodations may be provided in the offices assigned to the Commissioner of Plant and Structures on floor 18 for the Committee on Buildings of the Board of Aldermen, and for the Board of Standards and Appeals. These latter may be quartered in a single room until October 1, 1916, when the Board of Examiners will expire. Suitable space for the performance of the duties which will then devolve upon the new board will in future be recommended for allotment to it and provision will be made for the Committee on Buildings as may be required. In connection with the preparation of plans for the new fire alarm telegraph system, a large force of Draftsmen is provided for, to be emploved in the Fire De partment. which force should be quartered in the Municipal Building. The Board of Parole, recently organized according to law, has been assigned to certain space on floor 25 and now desires to take possession of a part of that space; the space has been temporarily occupied by the Engineering Bureau of the Department of Street Cleaning, pending the finishing of the tower of the building, now to be placed under contract. The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity has made available rooms 2342-2344, which may be used temporarily by the Department of Street Cleaning, and the northerly one-half of a large room, bearing the numbers 2346-2352, which may be used for the temporary period by the Fire Department. WM. A. PRENDERGAST, Comptroller; FRANK L. DOWLING, President of the Board of Aldermen; MILO R. MALTBIE, Chamberlain; F. J. H. KRACKE, Commissioner of Plant and Structures; Committee on Allotment of Space in the Municipal Building. After a discussion and consideration of the request of the Committee on the Allotment of Space for instructions as to whether or not the School for Municipal Courses of Instruction should be housed in the Municipal Building, the following resolutions were offered for adoption: Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby adopted the recommendations of the Committee on Allotment of Space, as to space in the Muni cipal Building, as follows: -that (1) The former allotment to the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment of 638 square feet on floor 8 (room 852) be rescinded. (2) The former allotment to the Examining Board of Plumbers of 783 square feet on floor 8 (rooms 854-856) be rescinded. (3) The former allotment to the Department of Taxes and Assessments of 640 square feet on floor 9 (room 909) be rescinded. (4) To the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment the use, jointly with the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, as an office of 1286 square feet on floor 9 (rooms 914-916) be allotted. (5) To the Examining Board of Plumbers 788 square feet on floor 9 (rooms 909 and 925) be allotted. (6) To the Board of Aldermen, for use of the Committee on Buildings and to the Board of Standards and Appeals, jointly with the Department of Plant and Structures, 526 square feet on floor 18 (room 1822) be allotted; the joint arrangement to expire on October 1, 1916. (7) To the Mayor, for use of the Warrant Division of that office, 306 square feet on floor 8 (room 856) be allotted. (8) To the City Chamberlain 477 square feet on floor 8 (room 854) be allotted. (9) To the Commission on Pensions 638 square feet on floor 8 (room 852) be allotted, for occupancy until August 15, 1916. (10) To the Fire Department the temporary joint use, with the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, of rooms Nos. 2346-2352, containing 3200 square feet, not subdivided, be allotted. (11) To the Department of Street Cleaning the temporary use of rooms 23422344, containing 882 square feet, heretofore allotted to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, be allotted. Whereas, the Director of Municipal Courses, acting for the College of The City of New York, has made an application to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for the allotment of space in the Municipal Building, which application was referred to the Committee on the Allotment of Space: and, Whereas, the said Committee has asked for instructions as to whether or not this activity shall be housed in the Municipal Building. Resolved, That it is the sense of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund that the application should be granted and the Committee on Allotment of Space is hereby authorized to recommend such allotment of space in the building as may be found available for the purposes. The report was accepted and the resolutions severally unanimously adopted. Board of Education-Assignment to, of Premises No. 180 Wooster Street, Borough of Manhattan. The Deputy and Acting Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution: To the Honorable the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: July, 1916. Gentlemen-The Secretary of the Board of Education in a communication to your Board under date of June 30, 1916, states that they have received an offer to (10) To the Fire Department, the temporary joint use wi Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, of rooms Nos. 2346-2352, feet, not subdivided, be allotted. (11) To the Department of Street Cleaning, the tempo 2344, containing 882 square feet, heretofore allotted to th Supply, Gas and Electricity, be allotted. Mayor's Committee on Municipal Cov (a) The Director of Municipal Courses, acting for New York, requests the permanent assignment of space i follows: (1) As an administrative office, one room, area a clusive use. (2a) As stenotype room, one room, area about 280 (2b) As typewriter room, one room, area about The rooms (2a) and (2b) above to be assigned from September 15, 1916, to June 15, 1917. (b) Request is further made for the privilege after business hours of the departments to which t no wise to interfere with the business regularly c planned to be given beginning about September 1917. The courses of instruction are open only to Fees are charged by the College and paid by th are estimated to be sufficient only to meet the 1The College of the City of New York is of instruction to be given in the Municipal control of a committee appointed by the Ma In view of the report by the Director Committee requests instructions as to wh Municipal Building. Meme The joint occupancy by the Commit National Defense of the same group e room No. 852, formerly allotted to the available for other assignment. Temp the force of the Commission on Pensi partitions in rooms 840-844, heretofor whole force of that Commission will The Warrant Division of the the building. It was placed temp Commissioner of Accounts and desirable location adjoining the o Bond Division), and the City Ch Examining Board of Plumbers quartered on floor 9, in room G and Assessments, but not now assigned interior filing room. Plumbers, room 856 will be desired by the City Chamber which has been assigned to t ment. Pending the operation Appeals will be organized, Structures is being reorga accommodations may be Plant and Structures on Aldermen, and for the i tered in a single room Suitable space for the new board will in fut made for the Commit In connection w system, a large forc partment. which for The Board of certain space on f signremises Signing the the pleasure ig Comptroller. reby terminate the asmmittee on Vocational 15, of the south part of Borough of Manhattan; and Fund hereby assign the above Survey Committee, such assoners of the Sinking Fund. sly adopted. at the Southwest Corner of Fifth Parcel of Land on Inwood Hill North he following report and offered the July 12, 1916. the Sinking Fund appointed raisers, to appraise two parcels of land owned by the City, one located at the southwest corner of 5th Street and 1st Avenue, Manhattan, and the other at the northwest corner of Essex Market Place and Essex Street, Manhattan, and also a parcel of land located about 2,000 feet north of Dyckman Street, Manhattan, owned by private owners, which was laid out as a public park on January 7, 1916, by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. It was proposed to exchange the two parcels above mentioned owned by the City for the property in private ownership. Subsequent to the adoption of the above resolution the owners withdrew their offer to accept from the City the parcel at Essex Market Place and Essex Street, and will only take in exchange for the property owned by them the parcel on the southwest corner of 5th Street and 1st Avenue. The report of the appraisers appointed shows the value of the different parcels as follows: By Joseph P. Day: Property owned by the City (5th Street and 1st Avenue), $50,000. Property to be conveyed to the City, $160,000. By Henry Brady: Property owned by the City (5th Street and 1st Avenue), $48,000. Property to be conveyed to the City, $155,000. By W. H. Archibald: Property owned by the City (5th Street and 1st Avenue), $46,500. Property to be conveyed to the City, $157,000. The parcel of land to be conveyed to the City will be subject to mortgages aggregating $107,000. The Corporation Counsel in a communication under date of June 19, 1916, states that he can see no legal objection to the proposed exchange. I therefore respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt the attached resolution. Respectfully, ALBERT E. HADLOCK, Deputy and Acting Comptroller. Whereas, at a meeting held June 1, 1916, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopted the following: "Whereas, The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deem it for the interest of the City to authorize an exchange of the following property owned by the City of New York for the land owned by private owners; therefore, be it "Resolved, That, in accordance with the provisions of section 205A of the Greater New York Charter, as amended, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby determine that the land owned by the City of New York, described as follows, is not required for departmental or public purposes: "Parcel 1. "All that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, described as follows: "Beginning at the point formed by the intersection of the southerly line of East 5th Street and the westerly line of First Avenue, and running thence southerly along the westerly line of First Avenue 48 feet; running thence westerly parallel with East Fifth Street sixty (60) feet; running thence northerly and parallel with First Avenue forty-eight (48) feet to the southerly line of East Fifth Street; running thence easterly along the southerly line of East Fifth Street sixty (60) feet to the point or place of beginning; also "Parcel 2. "All that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, described as follows: "Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Essex Street, distant 88 feet 3 inches southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly line of Broome Street and the westerly line of Essex Street; running thence westerly parallel with Broome Street 87 feet 6 inches; thence southerly parallel with Essex Street to the northerly line of Essex Market Place; running thence easterly along the northerly line of Essex Market Place 87 feet 6 inches to the westerly line of Essex Street, running thence northerly along the westerly line of Essex Street to the point or place of beginning; "-and they further determine that the lands of the private owners hereinafter described are needed for public purposes: "Parcel 3. "All that certain tract, plot or parcel of land with the buildings thereon. situate, lying and being in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, part of the farm late of Samuel Thomson, known as Mount Washington, as shown and laid out into intersecting streets and avenue, on a map entitled 'Map of Property belonging to Samuel Thomson, Esq., in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, surveved by Edwin Smith and Woolsey R. Hopkins. City Surveyors, New York. December 31, 1849. and filed in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York by the number 22, and containing three (3) acres and one hundred and forty-four one-thousandths (144-1000) parts of an acre of land, bounded on the north by 215th Street, on the east by Fourteenth Avenue, on the south by 214th Street, and on the west by Hudson River; "Together with all his right, title and interest in and to the water and rights and land covered with water, immediately in front of said above described parcel Number 22; "And, also, all that other certain tract, plot or piece of land, situate in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, bounded and described as follows: "Parcel 4. "Beginning at a stake in the line of the fence which divides the lands now or lately of Yeta Childs from the lands now or lately of Joseph de Rivera and Rachel, his wife, which stake is one (1) foot and nine (9) inches southeasterly from the centre of a sawed hemlock stump, and seventy-five (75) feet westerly from the westerly line of the Fourteenth Avenue; running thence southerly, and parallel with Fourteenth Avenue two hundred and fifty-nine (259) fect and ten (10) inches, to a stake; running thence westerly, and at right angles to said last mentioned line, and in a straight line, three hundred and eighty-nine (389) feet five (5) inches to the original high water line on the easterly shore of the Hudson River; running thence northerly, along said high water line, two hundred and fifty-nine (259) feet eleven (11) inches, more or less, to said fence; and running thence easterly, and parallel with said second mentioned line, and along said fence, three hundred and eighty-two (382) feet three (3) inches to the point of beginning; being the westerly part of Lot Number 23, on a certain map entitled 'Map of Property belonging to Samuel Thomson, Esq., in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, surveyed by Edwin Smith and Woolsey R. Hopkins, City Surveyors, New York, 31st December, 1849,' and filed in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York, and containing two (2) acres and three hundred and one one-thousandths (301-1000) of an acre; "Together with all his right, title, and interest of, in, and to the water and rights and land now or formerly covered with water immediately in front of said Lot Number 23; "Subject to the following exceptions, covenants, restrictions and easements, affecting the said premises: "Right of way and right of wharfage and covenants contained in deed recorded in liber 496 of conveyances, at page 448, if any; rights of way and easement over streets and avenue, laid out on map of property belonging to Samuel Thomson, in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, surveyed by Edwin Smith and Woolsey R. Hopkins, C. S., New York, December 31st, 1849, and filed in the Register's Office of the City and County of New York, in owners of land lying in the tract laid out on said map; sewer right, reserved in the deed recorded in liber 1474 of conveyances, at page 96; right of the City of New York to land in Hudson or North River below original high water mark, adjoining premises under grant recorded in liber 1194 of conveyances, at page 651; right of way and easement of public and adjoining owners, over land lying in Bolton Road; lands conveyed to the Hudson River Railroad Company, Dy deeds recorded in liber 495 of conveyances, at page 247, and liber 498 of conveyances at page 130; covenant as to right of way, contained in deeds recorded in liber 535 of conveyances, at page 512, and in liber 627 of conveyances, at page 83, and in liber 497 of conveyances, at page 508, if still in effect; "-and be it further "Resolved, That to determine the value of the lands of the City of New York and the value of the lands of private owners to be exchanged therefor, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby appoint Joseph P. Day, Henry Brady and W. H. Archibald, three discreet and disinterested appraisers, residing in the Borough of Manhattan, who are hereby authorized and directed to appraise the value of the lands owned by the City of New York and the lands owned by private owners, which it is proposed to exchange, and are both hereinabove described." -and Whereas, Mitchell A. C. Levy, the owner of the premises to be conveyed to the City, has withdrawn his offer to accept Parcel 2, above described, --and Whereas, The appraisers appointed by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund have submitted the following appraisals: Joseph P. Day Property owned by the City (Parcel 1).. Property owned by M. A. C. Levy (Parcels 3 and 4) $50,000 00 160,000 00 |