The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-04
NEW YORk's WATER FRONT.
One small section That Pays tho city u
Total OF s:fa5 900 a Year.

The water front OF New York. especially on
the lower west side of town, has long been the
subject OF litigation and contention. Most OF II
is made ground, the title to which has been in
dispute until settled by the courts or the Dock
Department. Such controversies have long de
layed the development of many parts OF New
York's unrivalled water front. An exception
is that portion Of the west side water front
which bounds on the west the Ninth ward.
From Houston street to Fourteenth street Is n
distance of about three-quarters Of a mile. The
annual revenue derived by the city from leases
and franchises in this section amounts to nearly
S365 900, or at the rate OF $1,000 II day. Be-
ginning at Houston street is Pier 80 for
which the National line pays the city s33,4O0
a year. Next follow, going northward, or rather
northwestward, the Cunard line pier, paying
$4,000 the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad, paying S3j, 500; the French
steamship line. paying $40, 800; the White star
line. paying S64.903; the Troy steamboat line,
paying 3i,5lI: and the Quebec Steamship Com
pany, paying 100000. From Perry street to
West Eleventh Is a sort of protected cove de-
voted to New York's vast oyster trade. The
wholesale dealers pay amounts ranging from
8 l.40 to $3.50 a day each for docking their
clapboard boats. There are fifteen OF these
dealers, and the revenue which the city gets
from them amounts, collectively, to $500 a
year. From West Eleventh to Horatio street
wharf privileges are let to business concerns,
some In the ice; some in the lime: and some In
the lumber business; and the amount obtained
from these rentals Is this year Sl6. 300. The
Consumers Ice Company pays 81. 500 a year for
dock privileges ut the foot of Horatio street, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at the foot OF Gansevoort
street pays s 1900. and the HOboken Ferry at the
footof West Fourteenth street pays 81. las. These
items collectively are In excess Of $500, 900 and
tn them there are to be added the revenue from
the special permits and the sums derived from
wharfage not covered by leases. In the last
fiscal year the amount collected for wharfage at
the West Tenth street bulkhead amounted to
SODA, at the Barrow street bulkhead To ST.
ll3. at the Thirteenth street pier to 81 .066. and
at the other bulkheads to All average OF about
$500 apiece.
There are twenty-four wards in New York
and all have water front except the Sixth,
Tenth. Fourteenth. Fifteenth, and Seventeenth.
IL the average revenue from each was the same
as the city now derives from the Ninth ward,
the total income from this source would be
nearly 5000. 900. Actually, II was 81. $40. ass
last year. The present Dock Department was
established in May, 1870, and 1t is now in its
twanty-tifth year. The total revenue since it's
foundation has been S25, 600, 900, and the ex-
penses have been S25, 500, 900. The largest
lessee OF dock privileges in New York is the
New York Central Railroad which pays S56,-
900 for wharf rights north of Thirtieth steeet
on the North River, sl5,s00 for privileges
north of Eiity-ninth street on the North River,
S3l, 900 for wharf rights on the East River near
the Battery, and $4,000 for wharf rights north
of Barclay street on the North River, u total
OF $4,000 IA year.