Excerpt from Plans for Major Traffic Thoroughfares and Transit: Lower East Side, New York City East i4th Street - Third Avenue - Bowery - Bayard Street - Market Street and the East River. During the past hundred years it has been predominantly a tenement dwelling area interspersed with retail stores and some industries. It is the purpose of this study to ascertain what major streets and tran sit facilities are needed if this area is to be recon structed upon a permanently sound social and economic basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.