New-York tribune., 1910-04-03

! first car over this line was run on Angus
! 26 last. This trolley route makes IT posi-
BILE for a person to trave! quickly betweei
! the southerly, central and north shore dis
tricts OF the island, and brings within easI
reach of the all-year summer residents o
many towns along the Wading River
branch the beautiful beaches fronting OF
the Great South Bay and the Atlantic
Ocean, for which the southerly shore dis
tricts are noted.
The work of extending tho south shore
trolley line. which runs as far east al
Freeport, through Merrick. Belimore. Wan
tagh. Massapequa, AmityNlle. Copaigu'
and Babylon was begun son1e months ago
That line is now in operatio/ /Pfrom Amity-
Vile to Babylon, and in the near future
the towns between Amityville and Freeport
will have these proposed trolley facilities
A trolley journey may now be made from
Jamaica to Hicksville. and in the near
future this route will be extended from
Hicksville to Farmingdale, one of the sta
tions along the line of the trolley link con-
Meeting the southerly and northerly shore
districts.
The tunnel tubes between Long Island
City and the Manhattan shores are four in
number. Two were built for the exclusive
the Pennsylvania road. 1t was curiousiy
planned TO have the Long Island and Man
haitian shores linked by six tubes. These
original plans may be carried out after the
electric and trolley projects of the Long
Island Railroad have been completed, and
when two more tubes are built the Long
Island Railroad will have that many more
entrances into the heart of old New York
Water Barriers ObIiterated.
Now that all the water barriers between
all the great ocean, town and Sound sec
tions of Long Island and Manhattan Island
have been annihilated forever and the ave-
nues for the enlargement of the business
zones of Long Island City and its contigu-
GUS territories suitable for commercial pur-
poses have been made satisfactory to bust
ness interests by the erection of the new
bridges, realty flaws in the physical char
acteristics in the Long Island region have
been removed.
The commercial growth of Williamsburg
GreenpOint, Hunters Point, Blissville, Ra
VenswoOd. Astoria and Steinway has been
most vigorous. And the beneficial effects
Of these new tunnels and bridges have al
ready resulted not only in great enhance.
ment of realty values in the Jamaica dis
JiICI, out throughout every section or Long
Island which appeals to the commuter, anC
also to the pleasure seeker In summer. II
the last two years a big Industrial centre
has been created in the Astoria section
| The 1Ourishing towns of Flushing Jamaics
and Far ROckaway have become unusuall,
| attractive to the speculative builder and tn,
/ developer of land There is not one foot o.
| the entire westerly suburban districts o
J beautiful oil yc
mere alluring TO realty investors than eve
| before in the history OF home building fl
| this part of the island. Long Island resi-
| dents long ago knew the value of the grea
| frOntages and stretches Of land washed b,
| the waters of the Sound, but now thei
value is known from one end of the coun
I try to the other.
+ Long Island IS not only one Of the great
| est pleasure grounds of the metropolitan
area. but one of IT'S greatest residential an
manufacturing regions 1t has great vari
ETY. OF charms. 1t has many miles of higl
land. beautifully laid out with park ef
/ fects. overlooking the Sound. 1t has man
cozy towns nesting In the hilly section
/ just south of the north shore districts. Il
the centre il has both hilly and level land
There will be found some of it's most en-
| trancing all-year and summer towns, an
along the southerly shores it has front
age on the ocean perhaps unequalled b.
/ any other city in this country.