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Identifier: problemofgreater00brea (find matches)
Title: The problem of greater New York and its solution
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940 Corthell, E. L. (Elmer Lawrence), 1840-1916 Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Board of New York. Library, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Harbors
Publisher: New York City, Published under the auspices of the Committee on Industrial Advancement of the Brooklyn League by the Search-light Book Corp.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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s of the future. The Federal Government is now pledged to carry themain channel to Cornell Basin at its own expense. When thischannel shall have been completed, Jamaica Bay will have overeight miles of main channel, 500 feet wide and 18 feet deep, andby this time the City will have opened basins, aggregatingeleven miles in length, which will pierce Brooklyn and Queensin various directions, bringing the advantages of deep waterwell into the heart of the City in seven districts. Up to this point the wharfage referred to has consisted ofplatforms upon the basins. The ultimate development ofJamaica Bay will also include piers. It will be recalled that the fill from the main channel ex-cavation is to be deposited behind a bulkhead at a distance of1,000 feet from the edge of the channel. The intervening spaceis left for the construction of piers and slips. There will be noimmediate necessity for the construction of these piers because 63 T II K P II () li L E M 0 F (i R E A T E R X E W YORK
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TWO SCENES IX BUSY BROWXSVILLE 1. Sutter Avenue and Junius Street, only eight blocks from proposed Fresh CreekBasin, and more than three and one-half miles from the nearest frontage on tide-waterat present navigaljle. 2. Extensive building operations four and one-half blocks from proposed FreshCreek Basin and characteristic of «>ntire Brownsville district. Materials must now betrucked four miles from nearest developed waterfront. 64 THE BALANCE SHEET iiiiiiiiirflr^-if Til 1

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