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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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n and one half milesof frontage on the Hudson, its six miles on the Harlem River,its caster., shore extending fifteen miles from Port Morris toPelham Bay and City Island, and the Bronx River which,with the march of improvement, is destined soon to be madenavigable to a considerable distance ; while all along the lineof its northern boundary extending westward from upperPelham Bay to Spuyten Duyvil it is adapted, by its naturaland accpiired facilities, to the establishment of manufacturingenterprises of every variety. When the fact is taken intoconsideration that the area of the North Side is double thatof Manhattan Island, the vast measurement of the territoryoccupied by it can be comprehended. There is no advantage necessary for the successful opera-tion of manufacturing industries that is not to be found onthe North Side ; indeed there is no facility lacking for thepromotion of such operation in any important respect. Mainlyamong the advantages and facilities is the well-established
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oo The Great North Side. 91 convenience for the receipt of goods to- be used in the manu-facture of articles of merchandise, and for their transporta-tion to consignees by rail or water. Surrounded as it is by awater boundary—with the exception of its northern line—theNorth Side certainly presents a rare topographical conditionand advantageous location excelled by no other locality in theworld. Of the railroad facilities it can be truly said that nobetter can be found anywhere, with the New York Centraland Hudson River Railroad on the south and west, the NewYork, New Haven, and Hartford Road on the east, the NewYork and Harlem, and the New York and Putnam betweenthe two great lines, the Harlem River and Portchester Rail-road on the east doing suburban service for the New York,New Haven, and Hartford. These railway thoroughfares areacknowledged to be the best equipped and the best managedof any in the country, and being such they are enabled at alltimes to render the best and most

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