Word: herrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway would be undisturbed. But the rest of Manhattan, now "all mixed up," would be reshuffled in a more orderly scheme: placing industry along the belt highway, housing in separate areas and parks around the riverfront fringes. In the now-blighted downtown area between Canal Street and Washington Square, Herrey's plan proposes a great, permanent Fair, which might include a proposed fashion center...
Manhattan has enough city plans on hand to paper Broadway from end to end. This week it got one more. The plan's author is Engineer-Architect Hermann Herrey. He was a widely famed city planner in Britain and on the Continent before the war, organized a national road-plan exhibit for the Royal Institute of British Architects, is now studying U.S. city problems on a grant from the American Philosophical Society. His collaborators are his wife-a physicist teaching at Queens College-and a Harvard architect, Constantin Pertzoff...
Great Hopes. Planner Herrey's belt highway, some 80 ft. high, would have six separate levels-for truck, bus, passenger and express traffic, two levels for parking. It would run between 9th and 10th Avenues and between 2nd and 3rd. Crosstown streets, much wider than present ones, would be laid out in pairs (e.g., an eastbound highway on the site of 40th Street, westbound on 42nd Street...
Freed of traffic lights (except at pedestrian crossings), the ring streets would supposedly allow a smooth flow of traffic. The block plan would place all residents within easy walking distance of schools, shops, etc. Herrey proposes a new type of apartment house, with a terrace and garden for each apartment...