Excerpt from Annual Report of the City Planning Commission and the Department of City Planning, 1938 The first year has been one of great activity in public improve ment. During 1938 matters referred to the Commission by the Board of Estimate, received from other agencies or initiated by the Commission, numbered 738. A summary of such matters and the action taken on them is given on the following page. Plans for various projects were submitted by the Borough Presidents' offices, the Park Department and other agencies, but maps for advertising hearings and reports, based on inspections and studies of the Commission, were prepared by the Department. Much of this work was done under adverse conditions by a small engineering stafi, subject to continual pressure to conform to legal requirements as to time and procedure and in response to urgent demands of other branches of the city government. Many physical changes, including new thoroughfares, sewers, and street widen ings were expedited in preparation for the World's Fair of 1939. 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.