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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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ed Railroad to or from any station on the Sixth orNinth avenue lines. Family commutation and school tickets are sold on theHudson and Putnam divisions under the same conditions ason the Harlem Division. The Suburban Elevated Railway serves about the sameterritory as the Harlem Division of the New York Central,and carries passengers from Tremont to the Battery for fivecents, a limited number of trains morning and evening makinga continuous trip, and all trains running at a few minutesheadway. There are also numerous express trains. Runningtime from City Hall to Tremont, express trains forty-sevenminutes, regular trains fifty-two minutes. The Union Railway Company operates eight lines of sur-face cars on the trolley system. Starting at One-hundred-and-twenty-ninth Street and Third Avenue, it has branches run-ning northeast, north, and northwest, and by a liberal systemof transfers, passengers can reach almost any section of theNorth Side for a single fare of five cents from One-hundred-
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The Great North Side. 85 and-twenty-ninth Street and Third Avenue on the East Side,or One-hundred-and-thirty-fifth Street and Eighth Avenue onthe West Side. It will be seen, therefore, that if transit facilities and ad-vantages of inter-coinmunication constitute a potent factor, ifnot the most potent factor, in urban growth, then everycitizen of the North Side must naturally take the most optimis-tic view of the rapid growth of his favorite locality, and erelong receive the reward of his enterprise.

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