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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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ons forthe employed, who will also find here for their childrenschools second to none in the city. The water supply forresidences, the street lighting and street cleaning facilities areunsurpassed even by Murray Hill. As for special breathing spots there is no territory ofequal extent within the corporate limits of any city of theworld which contains so many parks as our own North Side.In these beautiful sylvan retreats, delightfully situated andattractive in their natural picturesqueness, children of the richand poor alike find pleasure grounds that are as extensive inarea, and as charming in all their ancient loveliness of dale,knoll, and woodland as they are in all their acquired attract-iveness and conveniences. And all of these are easily accessi-ble by means of the elevated roads and the trolley electriclines of the Union Railway, and indeed every section of theNorth Side is—a fact which has probably contributed moreto the building up, and steadily increasing prosperity of the
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Ob The Great North Side. 97 section than any other factor. These means of communica-tion extend in some instances beyond the city limits andstretch across the territory from east to west, giving to thepopulation the most desirable facilities of transit with quick-ness of speed and at moderate fares. Amono- the inducements that are bringing; manufacturersto the North Side is the consideration given by many of themto the fact that dealers throughout the country find it to theiradvantage to come to New York to make their purchases ofstock. A large proportion of these have an eye to cheapnessin making their bargains, whether the fabric they buy be ofthe costliest manufacture or of the commonest make. Herethey can inspect the goods before they have left the places oftheir manufacture, and have the advantages of obtaining themat first cost. And when we know that thousands of thesepurchasers make regular pilgrimages to New York for thepurpose of buying goods for delivery to consumers, it sur

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