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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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vated railroad and the existing trolley road, for themost part, extend in a northerly and southerly direction,nearly parallel to each other, while the new Peoples TractionCompany will supplement the service of these roads in atransverse direction. The problem of the underground rapidtransit service, which has been so constantly before the peoplefor the last ten years, and which has at last resulted in an Actfor an appropriation of some fifty millions of dollars, will erelong become an accomplished fact, and be extended to thenorthern limits of the city, through the Twenty-third andTwenty-fourth Wards.1 1 As this article goes to press it is announced that the report of the Commis-sion favoring the construction of the underground rapid transit road will be con-firmed at an early date by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, and thework will probably be under way by the opening of the new year. The routelaid out by the Commission, it will be observed, strikes the Twenty-third Ward
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76 The Great North Side. 77 It may not be foreign to the writers subject to refer tothe successful labors of the Commissioner of Streets for theTwenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards in that in a remark-ably short time since his office was established, there have beenprojected and laid out so many miles of streets and avenues,without which an efficient railroad system would have beendelayed many years. It may not be uninteresting to give some definite particu-lars as to facilities for passenger transportation afforded byexisting lines. The Eastern Division is served by the Harlem River Branchof the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, connect-ing at One-hundred-and-twenty-ninth Street, on the same plat-form, by a change of cars with the Second and Third Avenueelevated lines to City Hall and South Ferry as follows: Between Onv -hundred-and-Twenty-ninth Street and : Distance FromHarlem River. Time From129th Street. MonthlyCommutationRates. Number ofTrains Daily. HarlemRiver. 129th

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