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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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2.342.180.33 83.5062.419.76 16.6812.481.95 ravemeiit laid 10.91 0.64 21.54 4.31 Repaying Third Avenue Asphalt Willis Avenue Sewers built Sewer Manholes 33.39 1.96 2 240 7637.72 7.54 constructed. . .Receiving-. »asi ns Avenues and Streets 1603567 94.3(1 33.35 2067.429 413.4 85.8 legally opened . . 49.61 2.92 49.0(1 9.40 There are now altogether 130 miles of legally openedstreets in the 23rd and 24th Wards. Willis avenue was paved with asphalt in the fall of 1895.It was the first asphalt laid in the 23rd and 24th Wards. The cost of the assessable improvements made during thefive (5) years ending December 31, 1895, amounted to $5,235,-887.16; averaging $1,047,177.43 per annum. The assessed valuation of the 23rd and 24th Wards in theyear 1890 was $44,448,914, and in the year 1895 $65,885,155,an increase in five (5) years of $21,436,241, being an annualaverage increase of $4,287,248, which shows plainly that theincrease in real-estate valuations has kept pace with the im-provements made.
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The Great North Side. The experience obtained by the Department of StreetImprovements in perfecting the street system in the territorywhich formerly constituted the 23rd and 24tk Wards will beof marked advantage in the laying out and improvement ofthat portion of Westchester County recently annexed to NewYork, and as a logical sequence will be of great advantage tothe residents of that section also. There is every sign of a rapid and healthy progress north-ward, and with increased rapid-transit facilities and a properutilization of the very valuable water-front advantages of theentire 23d and 24th Wards, I predict that in a very few yearsour territory will not only be the garden spot of the metropo-lis, but will be a vigorous rival, so to speak, in commercialsupremacy with that part of the city within the confines ofManhattan Island. ♦ COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES.

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