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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ubtedly be the finest in the United States and which willbe free to the public on four days of the week. These two features alone will add very greatly to the de-mand for, and to the desirability of, residences in their imme-diate vicinity. Crotona Park is the site of a splendid building which willbe the Borough Hall of the North Side. Van Cortlandt Park is already used for military reviews,which bring thousands of visitors from all over the City, whothus become acquainted with the locality and with its desir-ability for residential purposes. Between and connecting theparks are wide parkways which largely extend the amount ofpark border. These are to be improved by driveways alongtheir outer edge sixty feet in width, which will permit of anextended residence section facing a parkway and having ac-cess thereto, and this without an assessment for street pur-poses, for the improvement of the parks is a charge upon thegeneral tax levy. Already improvements have been made in the park area,
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200 The Great North Side. and more are in progress. Bronx and Pelham parks containbeautiful drives, and a macadamized road connects Bronx andVan Cortlandt parks; and within a few years there will besome ten miles of drives in the three larger parks and park-ways. In conclusion, a word should he said as to how to reachthese various pleasure grounds from the lower part of thecity. Van Cortlandt Park can he reached by the New York &Putnam R. R., which runs half-hourly trains from the 155thStreet station of the 8th Ave. Elevated Road. Bronx Park has w ithin its borders a station of the HarlemR. R. called Bedford Park, which can he reached by Frequenttrains from the Grand (Centra! Station, and it can also be reachedby trolley from L29th Street and 3d Avenue or L35tb Streetand 8th Avenue. Pelham Park is accessible either by landor water, as it is only a short distance from Starins Glen (si-and, to which boats run during the summer months. It ismore conveniently reached, however, by the

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