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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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s nearly all the powers of a city corporation with-out the incidental expenses; and this act enabled the townauthorities to pioneer annexation by proceeding to make suchimprovements in streets and highways as were demanded byan increasing population flowing in from below the HarlemRiver. In 1863, Messrs. Campbell & Willis bought some one hun-dred acres of land from Gouverneur Morris, located north ofwhat is now known as One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Streetand east of Third Avenue, then called Boston Road, and in 1864,Clarence S. Brown bought one hundred acres of land fromHenry M. Morris and his co-heirs, this land being bounded onthe north by One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, on theeast by Third Avenue, and on the south by Harlem River. Atthis time, not a single house was located on any of this prop-erty. In the laying out and mapping of these plots of land,the cross streets were numbered in continuation of the streetslocated in Harlem, the one nearest the river being One Hun-
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21 22 The Great North Side. dred and Thirty-third Street, afterwards converted into theSouthern Boulevard. I mention this incident to show thegeneral belief at that time in the upward extension of the city. In 1808 it was deemed advisable, in the town of Morri-sania, that some comprehensive and general plan for the layingout of streets, roads, and avenues should be adopted (morethan a dozen so-called villages, each with its own lay-out ofstreets, being then in existence), and this led to the passageof an act, by the Legislature, conferring upon a Commissionthe same general powers that had been conferred upon theCommission of 1813, which mapped all the upper part of NewYork Island. Having, also, the idea of future annexation inview, this Commission adopted the numerical names for cross-streets which existed in the city proper, and w Inch had beeninitiated in Morrisania as mentioned above. In 1869 the Legislature passed an act, giving to the ParkDepartment exclusive authority over bridg

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