Identifier: greatnorthsideor00durs (find matches)
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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ature for that work than the Sound frontage of the NorthSide. The harbor of Port Morris and East Harbor offer everydesirable advantage for carrying on ship-producing enterprisesthat is to be found in any of the great ship-yards of theworld, both for construction and launching, and there is noreason why they should not establish themselves in this local-ity before the lapse of many years with an extensiveness ofactivity equal to, if not surpassing, that of the Clyde, or ofChester on the Delaware. Here there are no bridge obstruc-tions and all the depth and expanse of water necessary to theuntrammeled prosecution of such enterprises are afforded. Indeed, it can be said in brief, that this North Side pos-sesses every natural characteristic for an evolution whichwould make it the model and most extensive manufacturingcentre on the face of the globe. New York City is the recog-nized market of the Western hemisphere. It is to it thatEuropean merchants and consumers turn their eyes when they
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94 The Great North Side. 95 are desirous of making purchases of the commercial productsof this country, for it is the great shipping emporium of thecontinent to which manufacturers in any section of the landsend their goods for transportation across the sea. Hence itis that manufacturers in distant localities are anxious to findplaces for their establishment either within the old city or atpoints so contiguous thereto that they may always be withinready reach of the market whence their products are dispensedto the purchaser. Among other things to be considered in connection withthis subject is the labor interest. Workingmen of every grade,whether skilled or otherwise, prefer to live near the placeswhere they render their services ; moreover the question ofcheap but comfortable living is to them always a most seriousone. And nowhere can the working-man find more advan-tages calculated to gratify his wishes in this respect than hereon the North Side. The increase in the number of factor

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