New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
Morris Park Lot Sale
Will Help Bronx Growth

| atoms around 1Slst street than at eithe,
of the two stations further south. at iestb
and l57th streets. Other factors. nc
doubt. entered into this situation TO som.
/ that at both 18th and l6sth streets
GOOD deal OF the more desirable property
! Immediately adjacent to the stations was
; in the hands OF owners who would
neither bald themselves nor sell to others
! IL is in this respect that the coming
sale of the Morris Park property will
I have a farreaching influence upon
the development and growth OF the whole
OF the northerly and easterIy sections Of
! The Bronx.
! In the case of small area of few
/ blocks which may be kept out of the
market for one reason or another. the
! lines Of growth will frequently spread
cut all around and beyond it, but here
il one immense tract of 260 acres measur-
! Ing mile in one direction and over half
I a mile i'm the other which has lain now
for several years an effective barrier to
the expansion of The Bronx.
! With the exception Of few scattered
! improvements along White Plains ave
nue.. the whole territory to the north snd>
east is yet practically untouched by
! builders.
! These conditions arc I'm marked con
trast with those Immediately 10 the south
and west Of the great property. in the
closely built-up sections Of Van Nest
and Westminster Village. At the south
erly end OF Morris Park stands the Nor
I rs Park station on the New Ravens
| siX-track route down 10 tho Harlem
River. Just across these tracks and with
in a couple of blocks of the Morris Park
! station. at West Farms Road and Silver
street. plans were filed recently for a FIVE
story apartment house. Within FIVE blocks
of the station i'm West Chester Village ale
well tenanted four and five story fiat
houses. and plans are nov in preparation
for a whole block front OF tyo story fat
houses on Zcresa avenue.
Van Nest is closely built up with two
! family houses and under favorable cond-
tons the building up Of its main bgsi.
ness artery. Morris Park avenue. would
have been extended clear across the
Morris Park property to WilliamsbrIdze
Road long before this. One OF the inn
mediate results Of the Morris Park sale
will be the extension Of tho Morris Park
avenue trolley line through that prop
erty That is now being built and will
be completed within the next week
Another important consideration. TO
which visitors to Morris Park have called
attention and which will hasten It's de-
velopment. is the fact that IL Is sur
rounded by prominent thoroughfares--to
the west and south Bronxdale avenue, or
Bear swamp Road; 10 the north, the
Bronx and Pelham PARKWAY and to tse
east. Nilliamsbridee Road. All the
streets within the limits OF the Old race
track property itself will pe ceded 10 tic
city before the sale. Bronxdale avenue
connects al West Farms Road Will
Castle Hill avenue making the only thor
'oughfare IN that section running down
TO the Sound and has long been under
consideration ov the Union Railway rs
route Tor a new trolley line.
Another important factor in tho de-
mand for new housings in the Morris
Park uoiehborhood will be the large new
repair plant and power house Of the Now
Haven road at'the Van Nest yard. In he
repair shops. now practically completed
over TWO thousand men will be employed
and this number viii be largely increased
when the power house Is finished. IN
connection with these Improvements, il Is
also the intention To- discontinue the use
oi the Van Nest freight yard. which was
originally group of sidings FOR the MOI
his Park race trains. and transfer the
taliie 10 the Wcstchostcr yard. Win
view to the enlargement OF the latter the
railroad recently purchased an adjoining
tract of fifty acres from Congressman
Jefferson NJ. Levy
Such circumstances as these only make
30 more certain tia; the subdivision OF
Norris Park will lee followed by an eA-
tensive building movement. wholly aslde
from tile transit improvements which VIII
soon bring il within the 5-cent-iare zone.
I'm 1t recent talk President Miller. Of The
New York. Westchester Il Boston Raj
road. impressed upon his hearers the ta''
that The Bronx itself would be big city
anywhere i'm the world except alongside
OF Manhattan.
After calling attention 10 The American
/ Bank Note Company new factory ana
other large enterprises recently esIsD'
ushed in the northerly borough, President
| Miller said.
How many of you know that n the
southerly and eastery sections oil Ihs I
Bronx are Industries with annual payIohs
amounting to s00oo0oo?'
Probably % per cent Of this steadily IN
creasing army Of workers establish their
homes in The Bronx. and il is for thiS
reason that the breaking down OF the
Morris Park barrier means SO mucn "
the further expansion Of The Bronx slons
| the line of its greatest growth in the past
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