ARTICLE 2

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

Sec. 30. Use of drives and bridle paths.

31. Parking vehicles.

32. Towing vehicles.

33. Restrictions on certain vehicles.

34. Public hacks, cabs and automobiles.

35. Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy materials.

36. Smoky motor vehicles.

37. Park-streets.

38. Harlem River driveway.

39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn Speedway, Ocean Parkway, Bushwick Avenue, Fort Hamilton Parkway.

40.

Bicylists.

41. Coney Island cycle paths.

42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles or bicycles.

Sec. 30. Use of drives and bridle paths. In all parks and parkways, the drives shall be used only by persons in pleasure vehicles, on bicycles or on horseback; the bridle paths only by persons on horseback. Animals to be used on either shall be well broken, and constantly held in such control that they may be easily and quickly turned or stopped. No person shall operate, drive or propel, and no owner thereof riding thereon or therein shall cause or permit to be operated driven or propelled, on any park drive, parkway or park-street, any bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, motor-cycle, motortricycle, motor delivery wagon, or motor vehicle, however propelled, or any vehicle drawn by horses or other animals, recklessly or negligently, or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger, or to be likely to endanger the life or property of any person. A rate of speed exceeding fifteen miles per hour is prohibited in any park, parkway, street or other place under the jurisdiction of any Park Commissioner. When an officer on duty shall direct, by gesture or otherwise, that the speed of an animal or vehicle shall be checked, or that it shall be stopped, or its course altered, such direction shall be immediately obeyed. No horse or other beast of burden, nor any automobile, shall be driven or suffered to stand anywhere except on the drive or bridle path. On all driveways and parkways where grass plots divide the way, all vehicles and horsemen must keep on the right hand drive or bridle path.

§ 31. Parking vehicles. No owner or operator of a motor-cycle, automobile or horse-drawn vehicle shall stop near any of the music stands or other places in or about a park, parkway, plaza, concourse, circle or square, where any considerable number of persons are accustomed to congregate, or where such motor-cycles, automobiles or vehicles would be a source of danger to life and limb, except by permission of the commissioner. Automobiles shall not be parked in any place in any park after 10 P. M.

§ 32. Towing vehicles.—No vehicle of any kind, in tow of another

vehicle or machine, shall be allowed to enter any park or to proceed along any parkway, but, in case of break-down, within a park or parkway, the disabled vehicle may be towed to the nearest point of exit.

$33. Restrictions on certain vehicles. 1. Hearses. No hearse, or other vehicle or person carrying the body of a dead person, shall enter or be allowed in any part of a park, except by permit.

2. Carriers. No motor cycle, motor vehicle or horse-drawn vehicle shall be used on the park or parkway drives for the sole or part purpose of carrying or carting merchandise, goods, household or other furniture, tools, rubbish or other material, except upon traffic roads provided for trucks, wagons and other than pleasure vehicles, except by permission of the Park Commissioner.

3. Fire apparatus.-No fire engine or other apparatus on wheels for extinguishing fire shall enter or be allowed upon any part of the park, except the transverse and traffic roads.

834. Public hacks, cabs and automobiles. 1. Special permits.-1. No automobile, stage or other vehicle shall be allowed to carry passengers for hire over or upon any park or parkways, except upon traffic roads, without a permit.

2. Awaiting fares. No vehicles for hire shall stand within a park, parkway or park-street for the purpose of taking up passengers, other than those whom it has brought in, without a permit.

3. Soliciting passengers.-All drivers or attendants of vehicles for hire, standing in Central Park, shall remain in close proximity to their vehicles, while so standing, and no person shall in any way solicit a passenger for any vehicle for hire in Central Park without a permit, and the Park Commissioner may make a charge for such permit.

§35. Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy materials. No garbage, ashes, manure or other offensive material shall be carried over any parkway or through any park, except upon the traffic roads set apart for the purpose. When such refuse is to be removed from residences fronting on any park or park-street, the vehicle collecting the same must leave the park or street as soon as the collection has been accomplished, and within the time prescribed by the commissioner. No earth, sand or broken stone shall be carried over any parkway except on traffic roads, without a permit.

$36. Smoky motor vehicles.-No person shall be permitted to run a motor vehicle which emits offensive quantities of smoke or gas or disagreeable doors from its exhaust, or muffler, in a park or park-street.

$37. Park-streets. 1. General. No animal or vehicle shall be permitted to stand, nor shall any incumbrance of any kind be allowed to remain upon any street adjacent to or bounding upon any park, without a permit; except that vehicles may be permitted to take up and set down passengers, and to load and unload merchandise in the usual manner, and may occupy the street a reasonable time for the purpose; provided, however, that they shall not, while so doing, unnecessarily incumber the street or obstruct travel therein. Business vehicles, heavy or light trucks, delivery wagons, automobiles carrying goods, etc., may be prohibited from using any roadway or portion of roadway under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, City of New York, or any branch thereof, which may be

designated by the commissioner having jurisdiction, by appropriate signs being placed thereon or otherwise.

2. Special. The delivery of supplies to the residences on Riverside Drive and Morningside avenue, West, in Manhattan, and the Shore Road in Brooklyn, will be permitted in the forenoon, but no business vehicles shall enter upon or pass over said parkways after the hour of noon, except by special permit. In passing over any of said streets, business vehicles must go directly to the place of de livery and must leave such street without unnecessary delay, and by the shortest route-the place of entry, if possible. The parkstreets, specified in this sub-division must not be used to enable business vehicles to reach places exterior to such streets.

§ 38. Harlem River driveway. 1. Speedway restricted. The use of the Speedway is restricted to horse-drawn pleasure vehicles except as otherwise determined by the Commissioner of Parks for the Borough of Manhattan under the provisions of Chapter 102, Laws of 1919. 2. Crossing roadway.-Pedestrians must not cross on the Speedway; subways are provided for that purpose.

$39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway, Eastern Parkway and the Speedway in Brooklyn. 1. Business vehicles.-Wagons, trucks, and other business vehicles, heavy or light, are prohibited from using the main driveway of the Ocean Parkway and must use the west traffic road at all times; and from using the Bay Parkway, between 80th Street and Gravesend Bay; and from using the central pavement on the main roadway of Eastern Parkway, using either the block pavement on the main roadway adjoining the central pavement or the side traffic roads. Pleasure vehicles.-On Eastern Parkway, from the Plaza to Ralph Avenue, pleasure vehicles, automobiles, carriages, etc., shall use the central pavement on the main roadway and are prohibited from using the heavy traffic side roads, except when main roadway is not open for use.

la. It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle over the easterly side road or bridle road of the Ocean Parkway, between Prospect Park and the Coney Island Concourse, or to park any automobile along the curb line, except as it may be necessary for vehicles to use the bridle road for the purpose of conveying supplies and materials to or from residences or sites for residences, and as it may be necessary for automobiles to approach or leave residences or sites for residences, or as it may be necessary to park automobiles in front of residences or sites for residences pending their use, in accordance with the traffic rules of the Police Department of the City of New York. In all cases, however, vehicles must enter said road from the nearest street intersection, in the direction of traffic and leave said road by the nearest intersecting street in the direction of traffic. 2. Use of Speedway area.-The Speedway section of Ocean Parkway, between Bay Parkway and Kings Highway, is no longer restricted to the use of light harness driving and speeding puproses during any hour of the day, on any day of the week, but shall be open for the use of automobiles and other pleasure vehicles at all times, the same as other sections of the main roadway, and the Commissioner of Parks for the Borough of Brooklyn is hereby authorized to regulate, grade, curb and pave this section of the Ocean Parkway main roadway, between Bay Parkway and Kings Highway,

with a permanent or other suitable type of pavement for general automobile and pleasure vehicle use.

3. Ocean Parkway restriction. Southerly end. The main roadway, cycle paths, bridle road and traffic road of Ocean Parkway, from the southerly side of Sea Breeze Avenue southerly to Coney Island Concourse, including the Concourse at the water front, is restricted to the use of automobiles, pleasure vehicles, equestrians, etc. Business wagons, trucks, auto trucks, trailers, etc., will not be permitted at any time on this section of Ocean Parkway, except for purposes of delivery to business places or residence located on the easterly side of the bridle road on this section of the Parkway.

4. Bushwick Avenue-Parkway restrictions.-Business vehielcs, heavy or light, trucks, trailers, delivery wagons, etc., are prohibited from using the section of Bushwick Avenue between the southerly curb line of Myrtle Avenue and the northeasterly curb line of Jamaica Avenue; this section being hereby restricted to the use of automobiles, pleasure vehicles, etc., with the exception of vehicles making deliveries to business or residential places located along the roadway, in which case vehicles must approach and leave roadway by the nearest intersecting street.

5. Fort Hamilton Parkway.-Wagons, trucks and other business vehicles are prohibited from using Fort Hamilton Parkway for its length from Ocean Parkway to the Shore Road, Borough of Brooklyn; except as it may be necessary for the purpose of conveying supplies or materials to or from residences and business premises along the parkway. In all cases, however, such vehicles must enter upon said parkway from the nearest intersecting street in the direction of traffic and leave said parkway by the nearest intersecting street in the direction of traffic in accordance with the traffic regulations of the Police Department of The City of New York.

6. No person shall operate an automobile on that part of the Eastchester Bay Shore Road, beginning at the northerly approach to the bridge over Eastchester Bay at its junction with the Eastern Boulevard, and running thence easterly and thence northerly, following a winding course, approximately parallel to the shore line of Eastchester Bay for a distance of approximately 4,450 feet to a point on the City Island Road, 125 feet west of Glover's Rock, nor upon that portion of the Shore Road known familiarly as the Orchard Beach Shore Road, beginning at a point on the City Island Road 435 feet east of Glover's Rock, running thence in a winding course approximately parallel to the shore line of Pelham Bay, through the camp reservation at Orchard Beach, and for a distance approximately 4,800 feet to the City Island Road where it joins the westerly approach to the City Island Bridge.

840. Bicyclists.-No person shall ride a bicycle upon the footpaths in any park or parkways. Bicyclists walking upon a footpath may push their wheels along the path, but in no case shall the machine be taken upon the turf.

§ 41. Coney Island Cycle-paths. 1. Reserved for cyclists.-Horses, wagons, carriages, automobiles and pedestrians must not use bicycle paths.

An ordinance forbidding bicycles in the parks cannot be called unreasonable, as matter of law. Matter of Wright, 29 Hun, 357.

2. Going and returning.-Cyclists must use the west path when going toward Coney Island, and the east path in returning.

3. Speed limit.-Cyclists and motor cyclists must not exceed a speed of eighteen miles an hour on the bicycle paths. Racing on the bicycle paths is prohibited, except by special permission of the commissioner.

§ 42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles or bicycles.—Instruction in operating automobiles, motor cycles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or other vehicles of propulsion, is prohibited in parks and parkways at all times.

ARTICLE 3

PROJECTIONS UPON PARKS, PARKWAYS OR PARK-STREETS

Sec. 60. General provisions.

§61. Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

$62. Riverside Drive.

$63. Ocean Parkway.

64. Restricted areas, Ocean Parkway, Eastern Parkway, Plaza Street.

§65. Bushwick Avenue Boulevard, Court Yard Regulations, etc. § 66. News-stands, Borough of Manhattan.

Sec. 60. General provisions. 1. Jurisdiction.-Each commissioner may grant permits for the erection and maintenance of projections on any park or parkway, within his jurisdiction, and on all streets and avenues within a distance of 350 feet from the outer boundaries thereof, upon such terms and conditions and upon the making of such compensation to the City as in his discretion he may determine, with respect to the particular locality.

2. Correction of defects. Where permits have heretofore been granted upon the making of compensation and a new permit is desired to correct any irregularity, defect or supposed want of jurisdiction in the granting of such permit, a new permit may be granted without further compensation.

3. Curb and surface construction.-Each commissioner may determine the line of curb and the surface constructions of all streets and avenues, lying within any park or parkway, in his jurisdiction, or within a distance of 350 feet from the outer boundaries thereof, as he may deem advisable, according to the particular locality, and best calculated to maintain the beauty and utility of such park or parkway.

4. House projections.—All applications for the privilege of erecting bay windows or other house projections shall be made to the commissioner in whose administrative jurisdiction the park or parkway affected lies, who may, in his discretion, grant the same, upon payment of a fee to be determined in each case by him. Working plans in duplicate, drawn to a scale of one-quarter inch to the foot, shall be required to accompany each application, showing the elevation, plans and vertical sections of extent of projection, one copy of which shall be filed in the office of the commissioner, and another shall be returned to the applicant, for filing in the appropriate bureau of buildings, upon the approval of the commissioner.

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