This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...This report was made in 1907. "We can say that this tonnage (of the Port of New York) will greatly increase and that it is thought that in ten years (seven of which are already passed) available water fronts for wharfage around Manhattan and in Upper New York Bay will be exhausted. Provision for additional frontage ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...This report was made in 1907. "We can say that this tonnage (of the Port of New York) will greatly increase and that it is thought that in ten years (seven of which are already passed) available water fronts for wharfage around Manhattan and in Upper New York Bay will be exhausted. Provision for additional frontage must be made, which provision should be on New York Bay, if practicable, and Jamaica Bay affords the only site for such addition." The writer, from many years of study of the subject, confirms this opinion, and there can be no other conclusion from the facts already brought forward. The additional water front is no longer to be found on Manhattan Island. The water fronts developed in Manhattan by the Report of the New Jersey Commission dated February, 1914, is 72.58 miles long, Brooklyn 80.94 miles, Queens 37.06; length of water front measured around piers and shore line in Manhattan, 89 miles, that is remaining 16.42 miles only; Brooklyn 135 miles, remaining 54.06 miles; Queens 215 miles, remaining 117.94 miles; and this does not include Jamaica Bay, which by the plans made for its improvement, contains 100 miles of bulkhead, saying nothing of piers, slips and subsidiary channels. The area and the frontage of Jamaica Bay would take in, comfortably, some of the largest ports in the World, and in any European country would be eagerly occupied for commercial purposes when as near to existing ports and as accessible as this is to New York. It is just as important to ameliorate the industrial conditions as to furnish additional commercial facilities. It. goes without saying that if industries can have, within a distance from the New Municipal Building of New York City no greater than from there to Central Park, large tracts of cheap land on...
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Seller's Description:
B&W Photographs. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Used Copy number 59, presented to Hon. James T. McCleary. Covers falling apart, corners and edges nicked and heavily rubbed.
Publisher:
Brooklyn Leage Committee on Industrial Advancement
Published:
1914
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12272217390
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Used-Acceptable. NY: Search-Light Book Corporation, 1914. 132 pages. Many halftones of housing, market, factory, waterfront conditions, maps, diagrams. 9 x 6'', disbound. Presentation plate from Brooklyn League, copy #54. Limits of Manhattan waterfront development, Jamaica Bay as solution. LACKING BINDING, last page detached, else G.
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NY 1914. New York Harbor problems and the development of Jamaica Bay. Hardcover. Octavo, 132pp., photo illustrations, index, printed limp leatherette. Brooklyn League Presentation bookplate. Lacks folding maps. Good, light wear, crease on front. Sold as is, text complete but lacking the maps.