New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-20
SOME R1pLp TRANSIT QUESTIONS.


RAND transit has not been extended and de-
yeloped so fast as the fortunes already made
in il and the prospects of future success war;
rant. The part of the city above the Harlem
is growing rapidly. Swans Of builders are at
work there the number OF persons moving IN
ia large, and the number looking hopefully
toward it is very much larger. Its great and
pressing need is quick transportation. Ii the
plans now in hand for supplying that need are
carried out promptly and intelligently, and the
owners of proI erty do not make the mistake OF
excessive demands upon tenants and pur-
chasers, the upper part of New-York is sure to
prosper and expand in o way that will astonish
the jewellers ON Manhattan Island. But land
lords should avoid the error that is now injuring
Harlem and Yorkyille. In great many cases
they insist on getting rich so fast that their
tenants have no choice but TO become constantly
poorer and poorer. Hence it happens that
though new buildings are going mp in almost
every street in Harlem, in some instances whole
blocks at time, there is much discomfort and
irritation among tenants; and signs are not
wanting of an important exodus to Brooklyn,
New Jersey, and other places where rents are
more reasonable. This should be warning 10
region beyond the river. Exorbitant tents and
extray agant prices for land will check the in
| creasing tide of prosperity even more surely
than delays in furnishing proper facilities for
| travel.
| Something has been done to enable jewellers
| in the northern part of the city to reach the
! business quarter promptly, bat the progress
/ made has been much less rapid than Is desir-
able. The New-York City and Northern Rail-
| road promises to be of marked benefit to resi-
dents near the Hudson, and to aid largely in
| the development of the region above Spuyten
DuyyIl Greek, including Yonkers. But as yet
| II IA running only two passenger Trains daily,
| because the connection with the Metropolitan
| Elevated Railway 10 not completed, and viii
not be until April is. The Suburban Rapid
| Transit Company hopes to have one Of It'll
lines ready for business before the close of thlt
year. This company's tracks viii connect with
| those of the Third Avenue Elevated Line a
Harlem, and with the three branches to Bronx
dale, Fordham and Jerome Park, will be al
i important agency in building up all that par
Of Northern Network which tho New-Yorl
City and Northern Railroad does not reach
The East Side and Mount Vernon Rapid TRANSIT
Railroad has got as far as electing board O
directors.
1 But all this Ia not much in actual accomplish
ment as the outcome to date OF the commission
i and tho meetings and the talks and the scheme
4 fol furnishing upper New-York with rapid tran
st facilities. There has certainly been more Of
talk and less of energy than it was hoped there
would BE. 1t Is yexatious that the connection
Of the Northern Railroad with the metropolitan
has not been finished. The fault, Of coarse, lie
With tl,B directors OF the elevated lines. Surel,
lie bridge over che Harlem and the roadbea d
fhe NorEissrn Bnad wers far core impoStant aHs