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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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rhaps, the excuse for increasing the jurisdiction of thePark P>oa.d as to this territory, and at the same time addingto its functions when annexation came. These were increasedto a limit that now seems incomprehensible. Constituted asthe Park Board was, it was really out of the question tothink that that Department could cope with the task placedin its hands, and at the same time perform the other dutiesof Park Commissioners. Under the Act of Annexation of 1873, the Park Commis-sioners were given exclusive power to alter the grades andlines as shown upon the map prepared by a Commissionappointed under chapter 841 of the Laws of 1868 for thespecial purpose of surveying and laying out the town ofMorrisania It was intended that the map prepared by thisCommission should be confirmed by the Act of Annexation,except so far as the same had been legally changed or modi-fied, but in the passage of the bill a provision was insertedgiving the Park Commissioners the right to alter the lines so
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BERTINE BLOCK, 136TH ST. NEAR WILLIS AVE. 3^ The Great North Side. 39 confirmed and established whenever they saw fit. At thetime of annexation the population of the 23d and 24th Wardswas about 35,000, and a speedy development of this territorywas expected. The people were justified in expecting it, buta rapid development did not come. The towns of WestFarms, Morrisania, and Kingsbridge were taken under thewing of Xew York City, (quoting from the language of theAct,) subject to the same laws, ordinances, regulations, obliga-tions and liabilities, entitled to the same rights, privileges,franchises and immunities, in every respect and to the sameextent as if such territory had been included within the Cityand County of New York at the time of the grant and adop-tion of the first charter and organization thereof and had soremained up to the passage of this Act. It can hardly be said that the new part of the city obtainedthe same rights and privileges as Manhattan Island. As thesequel sho

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