Word: parkways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parkways and Land Values" by Henry Vincent Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton professor of Regional Planning and John Nolen, late lecturer in City Planning, 135 pages, 30 illustrations, $1.50. Examining both the nature of a parkway and their values, this volume presents a mass of expert information that may be used for valid judgment in particular cases of proposed parkways...
...order to gain valuable first-hand experience with highway problems, the men drove down in cars over some of the more important eastern routes. Once established at Hotel George Washington in New York, they will make short trips of inspection to parkway developments in Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey...
...happened in New York over the Navy week-end. What with the new extension of the Riverside Drive parkway under the George Washington Bridge, the shades of night which had long since fallen, and a feeling of vague satisfaction about the football situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would...
...during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment of gopher snakes arrived at the zoo frozen like walking sticks, and had to be thawed out before they went on exhibition...
After the War, the owners of the Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed...