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Title: The problem of greater New York and its solution
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940 Corthell, E. L. (Elmer Lawrence), 1840-1916 Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Board of New York. Library, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Harbors
Publisher: New York City, Published under the auspices of the Committee on Industrial Advancement of the Brooklyn League by the Search-light Book Corp.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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average cost of haulingis thirty-fire cents per ton mile. _ The cost of hauling in city streets varies, according to these several authorities, from thirty-five tofifty cents per ton mile. The use of the Jamaica Bay waterfront would effect for the tributary district anaverage saving in haul of two miles. This means at the conservative figure of thirty cents per ton mile asaving of sixty cents per ton. On many materials such as lumber and brick and other clay products brought in via the Amboys.this sixty cents per ton represents a net saving, for they may be landed on Jamaica Bay waterfront aseasily and economically as at any other point in New York Harbor; some, however, must be lighteredfrom the Upper Bay to Jamaica Bay. This operation may be performed for thirty cents per ton, leavinga net saving to the tributary district of at least thirty cents per ton. ^ Although this figure as will be seenfrom the above is a minimum we have used it throughout the discussion. 58 THE BALANCE SHEET
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This may be stated in another way: An expenditure atJamaica Bay of less money than the City will pay for two yearsinterest upon the funds used in building one new pier at 44thStreet, will pay New York an immediate profit of 150% andwill save New York citizens an additional 100% per year! This will consume but a small part of the present availablefunds, and the second step may follow at once. 59 T H E r 11 O B L E M O E G R E A T E 11 N E W Y () K K Second Progressive Step—The second step is probablythe most important and the most profitable now in contemphi-tion. It is the opening of Fresh Creek Basin, from a point 2)^miles beyond Mill Basin. This will provide water transporta-tion facilities to the already densely populated Brownsvilledistrict with its 250,000 inhabitants, a city in itself larger thanProvidence, R. I. According to the plan which has been pre-pared, this basin can be extended to Avenue E, a distance ofnearly two miles from the channel, and 1,000 feet of wharf canbe

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