The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-27
REAL ESTATE news. !
How the Improvement Of Dun-
can Avenue Would Bene-
fit the city

The appeal of the West Sid and Ber-
gen section property owners to nave
Duncan avenue opened to the Hacken-
sack River is one which should command
the immediate attention of the Street
and Water Commissioners. Sc anxious
are the property owners out that way to
nave their holdings developed that one
enterprising gentleman has offered the
city a strip of land adjoining what is
now owned by the city and marked on
the map as Duncan avenue, thirty feet
wide, SO that in case the city decides to
open the avenue for traffic it will be a
thoroughfare eighty feet wide, instead
of fifty feet. This offer holds good for a
period of two years. The g~entleman's
object in making it Is said to be to give
manufacturers an opportunity to procure
sites on the river front at once The
Bergen residents have a well-grounded
fear that unless the city offers manufac-
turers inducements that the railroad
companies will in a short time gobble up
the choice sites and perhaps locate OBJ
je~ctionable industries there. The prop
erty owners want to shut out fertilizing
factories and bone rendering establish
fNJURING THIS CITY.
They believe that those now operated
near Newark do the Hackensack water
front property more harm than good, and
they will # possible, prevent the loca-
by any of these Objectionable businesses.
Thai portion of the river of which Jer-
sey City owners control the water front
is particularly desirable for concerns do
ing a large shipping business.
At high and low tide there is a suf-
fcient depth of water to float an ordin-
cation can be had by asking the Penn
sylvania, which company stands ready,
IT is understood, to acquire rights along
| the shore front for a branch freight line
will warrant the outlay. A factory built
on the river front as 1t is at present
would be completely isolated 50 far as
communication with Jersey City is con-
| cerned. Property owners believe this to
be the only reason why the now unused
territory along the river is not covered
with manufactures, giving employment
to hundreds and perhaps thousands of
men. The opening of one street, prefer
ably Duncan avenue, because the ex-
| pense attending its opening and improve
ment would be less than for any other,
would, it is believed, give that territory
JERSEY CITY's FUTURE.
The property owners insist that its de-
velopment in the future as a manufac-
turing center rests alone with the city
officials. II the city is not willing to
bear part of the burden in building up
the city to increase it's evenue, prop
erty owners are willing to await until
such time as necessity will compel some
one to take. the matter In hand and pro-
vide room for manufacturers, who will
lave to have shipping facilities by land
and water. or permit such industries to
walk by Jersey City and invest in other
localities. where more progressive and
e~nterprtsing officials are to be found.
The xpens to be encountered in the
opening of the avenue is slight when
compared with the benefits that certainly
would accrue. The location of one big
industry on the Hackensack would make
the Bergen section a lively section for
speculation for some time to come.