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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Chapter 545 of the Laws of lMo, which transferred allthe powers possessed by the Department of Public Parka inrelation to the public worts on the North Side, authorizes thework which is performed by the Department of Street Im-provements. One of the most important works that could hedone for the development of the North Side, the want ofwhich has hitherto set a limit upon its development and popu-lation until now, has just been completed. I refer to the finallay-out and adoption of the maps of the new street system.For seventeen years prior to the establishment of the Depart-ment of Street Improvements no reliable and complete mapof the North Side existed. One of the most serious defectof the system was the frequent, unnecessary, and ill-advisedchanges of maps involving changes of locations, lines, and 160
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162 The Great North Side. grades of streets and avenues; these changes prevented ascientific and uniform street system. The work hasnow beencompleted and a comprehensive and permanent map estab-lished. The maps not only show the new lav out of thestreet system, hut also the angles and dimensions of the Mock-,the new grades and the contour lines of the topographicalfeatures. The work performed in the Engineering Bureau of theDepartment of Street Improvements has been divided intothree branches, as follows : 1st. Topographical work. 2d. Regulating, grading, curbing, flagging, paving, andla\ Lng cr^w alks, etc 3d. The constructing of sewers and appurtenances,etc. TOPOGRAPHIC A L WORK. This work is of a multifarious nature and is done prin-cipally under the Following heads: SURVEYING AM) LAYING-OUT OF TIN; NORTH BIDS. The general scope of this work being the conversion ofthis great area from farm land into city property. Morecorrectly it may be defined as the preparation of the ex

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