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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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say ten years hence, may secure homes of their own bypaying but little more monthly than they now pay out forrent. And, perhaps, next to life insurance, there is no betterprovision that a man can make for those dependent on himthan the securing of a home for them : a house which theycan call their own. It ought to be the ambition—indeed, itis the duty—of every head of a family capable of earningmore than the mere means of support, to labor and save tothe end that those who look to him for support may be thusprovided for. It would be difficult to find, within many miles radius ofNew York, more delightfully picturesque scenery than is tobe found on the North Side, within the corporate limits of theGreat Metropolis. Its hills and valleys, affording entrancingviews of the majestic Hudson with its world-famed back-ground, the Palisades ; the sinuous and placid Harlem hedgedin by commanding hills and spanned by many bridges ; thewide spreading marine views of the Sound with its numerous
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120 The Great North Side. 121 islands, and the land adjacent to that charming strip of rusticwoodland which skirts the picturesque Bronx from WestFarms to Williams Bridge offer attractive sites for residencewhich for beauty and healthfulness it would be hard to equal. Here then is New Yorks ideal home section. Within thismagnificent territory upon which Nature has bestowed herbounties with such liberality we may expect to see developedthe residence quarter of the Metropolis, dotted with the homesof the thrifty and industrious of moderate means as well as thepalatial mansions of the wealthy; a district which shall be toour city what Londons great home section is to the Metropo-lis of the world. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.

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