New-York tribune., 1913-12-28
Austin, Nichols & Co.
Plan Direct Attention
to Movement.
BIG INDUSTRIAL
AREAS IN BOROUGH
Some Notable Factory Additions
Being Built by Many Well
Established Concerns.

The recent announcement that the
grocery house OF Austin. Nichols & co.
was going 10 move from Manhattan 10
the waterfront district OF Greenpoint ha.
directed attention TO the splendid eN-
pansion Of the factory areas OF the BoT-
ough Of Brooklyn in recent years. For
many years before 1898 when the greater
city became reality. Brooklyn was
familiarlv known as the City OF
Churches" OF late years its Industrial
DEVELOPMENT has been as important as
tie residential growth, and consequently
the borough now occupies an enviaoIe
position I'm the industrial world,
Why the majority OF plots in the well
ocsted factory zones Of Brooklyn are
much more valuable to-day than they
we're nfteen years ago. when Brooklyn
was a city Of itself, is due to maiy
causes The principal one is said 10 De
he great increase in the population ol
he CITY. resulting in a wider demand Tot
office. loft and store sites in downtown
Manhattan, and making too valuable ior'
factory or wholesale trade purposes
many plots so used
Large numbers of manufacturers
forced 10 leave Manhattan. naturaiy
looked to Brooklyn To proVde thehl
with the desired properties lot I'M
provemeut with new plants. MANY
others followed the industrial movement
10 the Borough Of Queens, Where l'eie
are vast acres OF undeveloped lana most
suitable for commercial transformation
The Bronx has also been most allurihs
10 scores Of we'll established manuiactui
Ing concerns in Manhattan IN heeu Vi
more spacious premises and cheaper lanu
on which they could build modern piah''
10 house their industrial workers'
One OF the many advantages enJoyeo
by manufacturers in the Brooklyn pam
wick is the well developed state OF the
waterfront properties, and another ls the
ncsrness of attractive home secuoho'
There is hardly a part OF Brooklyn noted
for tie industrial strength which IS not
tordcred nv or within a short distance Vi
big eatbousc or private dwelling house
district In those residential ZoneS
tails are much lower than IN most ., ."S
thickly populated tenement mouse pa"
OF Manhattan, and the workers III ''o
BROOKLYN factories find that they can
have many more comforts oil ne Oh
Long Island soil than in the princlpai
boroYeh Of the city The happiest III
,lustriaI workers come from the dIs'i'''S
where their home life IS congeniaI'
Apotber advantage enjoyed by many
b,ooklyn manufacturers Is icss caitase
and Wharfage fees than their flNdlS ="
business located in Manhattan "hele 'e
uortbward expansion of ONCE ana ioi'
structures oycrshadows the manuiactui-
ip. regions. What every manufacture
who is sincere about the welfare OF t"e
Workers desires Is a plant so located as
Ia he operated at such cost that ne Cd"
pay the highest wages to his lhuuS '''
bclpers This in sense explains why
grooklvn is coming 10 the ffont as ono
Of the greatest manufacturing secuoh'
Of this country.
When the New York connecting rallroad
bridge over the East River is bulIt anu
tie tube under the Bay between staten
Island and Brooklyn is In operation aH
the manufacturing centres OF biooN'S"
viii be connected by an an-rai rou'e
10 the Atlantic scaboard ana 10 every
part Of thls country now reached Dy ran
way. Brooklyn is also going 20 be one OF
the most important terminals Of the state
barae canal and as such Is destined I'D
become one OF the most important anu
best suited boroughs for public marke's'
Wide-awake managers Of indusrial con
cerns are well aware OF these iaets' anu