New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
UP IN BUSY HARLEM.
THE RAPID TRANSIT QUESTION
rNrpoRr.NcE OF QUICK COMMUNICATIONS WITH
OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND
Sr1GHBoRINe PLACES.

OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND
SrrGHBoRING PLACES.
The question which is attracting the creates aDnoan
of attention at present from men VINO afo i''oiosN
In tho DEVELOPMENT of Harlem is RAPID transit loS
are not only DESTROYS Of having means Oh ua'eihhs
Quickly between the upper and lower p"r'S VI uo
city mt between Harlem and other cities and towns
a, ,A,e s,a,e and New-Jersey when Harlem had
scarcely any mercantile interests OF It's own the que
ton Of the most importance was how 10 eet do"h-
town quickly The question in Itself becomes more
IMMIGRANT every day, but comparatively 1t Is not now
NJ 90 much consequence as IL once was WIN me
,shsbment of business houses and manufactures to
,he question of how 10 get downtown quickly was
added the problem of shipping goods and getting in
raw material for the Of manufactures cheapiy
enough 10 compete with other firms doing similar
business in other parts of the city. The Harlem RIVER
improvements the direct outcome Of the agitation
of that question, and advancement In another
wsy is being discussed
This is the improvement of the Hudson River water
front in the neghborhoOd of One-hundred and-t"ehS
hfth-st. 1t is thought by who are familiar "i'n
affairs in the upper part of the city, and WHO ait
largely interested I'm the development OF that part VI
Manhattan Island, that hundred-andtwehS ma,
st. sure TO become centre OF trade. as Four'ooi'
and Twenty third SITS. are now. This asseruo"' "''
think is justified in view II the present important
of One-hundred and twenty hfth-st as trade oe"'o
the last few years Across the Hui-on lHVer 'no i
are growing towns between Nyack and jersey Wy
and when Onehundred and twentyhfthst Is az
knowledeed TO be as good place TO so shopPI"S q"
the other two streets named people Will come d0io
the Hudson from Fort Lee rather thaii HN''i -,
or fourteen miles by going to jersey OlS'
acknowledge that this condition OF ahaIs 'ahiO'
brought about until there are hrstclass laoAi''S ~
passengers TO come the river, and the present
d,.sior e concerning the means Of providing just
such facilities. 49,,
In view of the possibility or the probability ina.
the Worlds Fair will be held on the present proposed
Site 1t Is argued that this would also anoru d" I'M
portan means OF bringing thousands OF people 70 '''
Exposition grounds every day, and thus reieVo' ~
considerable extent The other lines OF travel lhey 4ooN
forward to the time when the Hudson River steamboats,
Will land regularly at about
6fibst and even 10 the establishment OF hno Oh
steamers from the lower part OF the city 10 acGUnU
trate men doing business downtown ana iNlhE ~ 10
lem with the present rapidtransit facilities ue UNI
consumed by fast steamboat would not greatly eA ,
coed the time II takes 70 make the mp on te -
railroad and during the at least II wou9 DC
a pleasant trim Cor men who confined IN Offices
all day. Even If ii took ten minutes IonSct'
and argued that he osl, T%qld to MAKE nG!
two or three landings. it would be preteraoie 10 oel
crowded INTO sIThy remember that ii was not long
ago that the steamboats, on the East ilSeI W. ,ho
Sown-tovn districts With The advent of the eleVated
roads the stesml oats were crowded out. But IAe
Sstber different on the east side the elevated roads
land passengers in the centre OF pOputa,iOu, an
Dd Which is too far away from the elevated roads
10 make It popular place III which 10 puIlu ,
and the widening and grading Of streets that lead 10
the rver the ground thai is now ummproa'p Lac :"
Immediately become valuable no only as Paoe itV
build homes, but also for act9r e.. i nv
authorities have already begun the aITsG sb them
ments aud it Is 70 be hoped tha' 'ne! Will push
rapdly 10 completion.