The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

property. Long Island City has no Dock Board.
none worth mentioning, because there are only
three public piers in the city. The staten
the private piers and wharves the figures are not
ut hand. but 1t Is worth saying. that one com
pans o front no IL Isf Is t tnst e s5nns @iies az a naH2oasH to
unite its piers. This water front Is merely. the
s sno1s In. !insv wa.sr trans. Stte Is co at lenst
the facts q man familiar, with tho commercial
facilities Of the Greater New York said that the
seventy-ive miles long. And that Is to say that
no fewer than 900 ships Of more, than average
ocean going size might find berth room ut the
completed piers and wharves Of the Greater New
And yet in the last report of the Department
of Docks Of old New York page 1922 1t appears
that "thi, section Of our city West Eleventh
bic accommodation for our greatly crowded
actual wharfage facilities to the space which
may he readily and cneaply devoted to seaiar-
ass yet but a small part of It's available water
front occupied. There are only l26 piers on tho
North River and lis on on n ! Eat sau River front OF
is indeed we'll studded with piers. Above
that street it is comparatively barren. On
tho Brooklyn front the space between the
bridge and Hamilton Ferry contains thirty four
piers and has room for no more From the
space is devoted to wharfage in one way and
smother: Fro@ the bridge g to the Navy Yard
space ia also taken up. but above Newtown Greek
at the north and from Gowanus BAY south to
filling OF the greater part OF these spaces is grad
ually going on-a process that VIII In no great
miles OF wharfage; but that by no means ia
cludes the portimprovements In contemplation.
from Grsyes "eei BB ay th .Tr the lagoon fbrehini
Coney Island to the channel behind Rockaway
beach, thence past Ganarsie TO- oid Mil Greek.
head Of Flushing Greek. and 50 out into the
deep water OF Long Island sound: or the feast
sts. n IA ali n mar 1 "A IN Hnnhf and Ulan
the of the port demands the work it
In short. having a safe harbor. with a mod
crate rise and fall OF the lido, the WHARFAGE IA
%cilities OF the Greoter New York may be ex-
ms'e new city will have $50 miles Of Wharfage
where the old one had but So.
As to the growth OF the business transacted
on shore within the metropolis, one who has
facts within lis own memory to gain a fair idea
OF what has occurred. For instance, there was
che a.os erection Jones of f .sf Sn sSs e SrI,dl han BY P ark late l.
was counted a most lofty structure. but the
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II he fell clear through the twenty-three
stories of height 10 the street, A good many
building was counted n great piece OF work,
HIrper's Weekly had a cartoon on the last page
Trinity Church steeple. Underneath the pic
ture was q legend to the effect that II the cree
ton OF taller buildings went on, then something
at the idea as a joke, but the buildings that are
loftier than Trinity steeple are here, and they
are full or tenants who pay profitable rates.
Aud more OF the lofty structures are going up.
Within a month or so the plot OF ground at
Al and AZ Wall street sold tor $3.50 a square
foot. IL was purchased seven years ago for
about half that. II IL occupied by a little ten
story building. What will 1t bring when, ten
years from now. some one wants TO erect q build
ing Of thirty stories theref
Elsewhere real estate that was worth but 5000
for a vacant lot ten years ago Is now selling for
81, 900, and even more. one has only to 60 into
the outer districts OF the new city to hear such
strange, true stories OF growth Of values As
must astonIsh even the boomers of the plains Of
the Southwest. The growth Ia rapid transit
f~aCillties throughout the city has worked such
wonders In this respect rs To almost surpass the
belief OF the uniformed.
OF the future grnwth In the business centre of
the metropolis one can scarcely hazard n guess,
Tor the reason that the pillng up OF Onice build
ings has even now created u congestion in the
low or streets that at certain hours Is becoming
unendurRble. The available Transportation
facilities for passengers are loaded To the last
gasp already. The transportation of freight
hampered. How much longer this hanlnering
may be endured Is a question not easily an
swerod. but one who Il suffering from IL told n
reporter that the result would soon lbs To drive
all freight goods. storage, and transpOrtat,on-
out OF the lower part Of the CITY. In his opinion
the loading of ships below tile bridge an the
East River and below Cham Ders street ON the
North River was AN unnecessary nuisance that
| berthing the vessels elsewhere. For time out ~
I mind, the lcitizens Of old New York have been
Watching the, growth Of population upon
who TememGer when Lafayette place aud Bleeck-
or street were centres OF aTlstdcFatic resIlenceA
when the Ctty Hall was somewhere neaE the