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Jobs and Housing to Rise in City by 1980
By PETER KIHSS
of the subway would be paid
New York City's planning
for out of city, Federal or other
chief predicted yesterday that
bond funds.
midtown and downtown Man-
The planners, Mr. Elliott
said, are offering bonuses to
THE N. Y. TIMES
hattan would gain 100,000
more jobs and could provide
builders for providing below-
new housing for 200,000 peo-
ground access to transit and
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ple by 1980-and that living
mid-block arcades and galleri-
and working conditions could
as, separating pedestrians from
be better then than now.
motor traffic, in cases such as
Donald H. Elliott, chairman
the proposed special Lincoln
of the City Planning Commis-
Square zoning district.
sion, said he expected a net
The Lower Manhattan Plan
includes the creation of 200
increase of 100,000 jobs south
acres of land by filling along
of 59th Street. At present
the shore to provide space for
there are 2.1 to 2.2. million
office buildings and housing.
jobs.
Mr. Elliott expects other land-
The new jobs, he said, would
fill areas to be provided along
result from new office con-
the Hudson River.
struction, with 50-million
Areas already zoned for
square feet of space already
substantially higher residential
under construction or in plan-
density than at present include
ning and more expected.
the Lincoln Square section and
On housing, Mr. Elliott said
East Side north of 59th Street,
planning "now going forward
The New York Times
Mr. Elliott said. Above 96th
and existing zoning" would
Donald H. Elliott
Street, he noted that Harlem
make it possible to build ew
had a Model Cities program
homes south of 96th Street for
"gobbling up every apartment,"
under development,
200,000 people.
he said.
In the telecast, Mr. Elliott
This, he said, is "a conserva-
He also said he was "amazed
said that "in the past the city
tive. view of the potential,"
has not used some of the
which will be influenced by
at the receptivity of the invest-
powers that it did have to try
such factors as costs and
investing community" to im-
to shape development in ways
rapidity of transportation im-
provements being urged by the
that are useful for the public
provements. Some relocations
planners to help "make the city
good." On new buildings, he
would have to be subtracted
work."
said, "we're not concerned so
from the total of 200,000, he
The commission is at work
much about whether they look
said.
on a 300,000-word draft mas-
better, but whether they work
European View Different
better."
ter plan to guide development
"If New York is to be strong
The planning chief made the
and improve the quality of liv-
and to succeed," he said, "it
estimates in an interview fol-
ing, while seeking to lift three
has got to be as it was for
lowing an appearance on
million people out of poverty.
our fathers, a city of oppor-
WOR-TV's "New York Report,"
Mr. Elliott said the expected
tunity for today's poor.
in which he said that planning
office job gain would be higher
They've got to have an op-
efforts here were "different
than 100,000 in Manhattan, but
portunity to move into the
from what they're doing in
would be offset in part by a
main stream, and this gets into
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London or in Paris, where
continuing decline in industrial
questions of education and of
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they're attempting to move out
jobs.
training and ability to find
and to decentralize these of-
The planners, he said, were
jobs."
fice functions."
working "whatever possible to
"We clearly take what I sup-
tie new building into mass
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pose around the world is an
transit." Thus, he said, develop-
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unusual position," he said on
ers of the old Capitol Theater
the telecast. "But we are firm-
site at Broadway and 51st
ly convinced that the density,
Street have agreed to provide
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the concentration of business
connections within their build-
n
activity in downtown and mid-
ing into two subways.
town is desirable and helpful,
st
and that it can work-that
Subway a Job Factor
a-
there's no reason in the world
The 48th Street crosstown
re
why a great many more peo-
subway proposal is another
ad
ple cannot successfully, and
part of the job and better-liv-
its
more successfully than they
ing effort, Mr. Elliott said. He
ng
now do, work on Manhattan."
noted that this project and the
Later, he said that New
extension of the new Second
dy
Yorkers "tend to be unneces-
Avenue subway from 34th
ng
sarily pessimistic." Evidence of
Street to the Battery were
ed
New York's continued growth
among the programs the Board
ed
as a national center is "ob-
of Estimate has asked the
es
jectively encouraging," he said.
Metropolitan Transportation
in-
The city is now pressing "a
Authority to add to its sched-
couple of billion dollars" in
ule of future construction.
p-
transportation improvements in
The authority, he said, had
I's
"an inadequate system."
agreed to seek state legislation
in-
New office space is in de-
to permit use of funds from
mand, with the city experienc-
the state transportation bond
ad
ing "a very low vacancy rate,"
issue to provide designing serv-
ry
Mr. Elliott went on. People are
ices. The eventual construction