New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
By The Bronx Board of Trade.

The Bronx seems to have taken a
new lease on industrial life. In the
first eighteen weeks of the present year
permits were issued by the Building
Bureau for the erection of eighteen
factory buildings within its bounda-
ries, showing a healthy growth in this
direction.
This organization realizes that the
time is now ripe for an immediate IN
dustrial expansion, and has under
taken, through its industrial bureau, TO
survey the entire borough, section by
section, to determine the possibilities
of each, so that the industrial grown
may be intelligently directed. This
bureau has recently completed a close
survey of that section of the borough
from Hunts Point to Throg's Neck,
which territory also includes that vast,
undeveloped region known as Clason,s
Point. The territory, from Hunts
Point to Throg's Neck, fronts on the
East River and extends to the entrance
TO Long Island Sound II is one that
seems to have been entirely overlooked
In the mad rush for waterfront prop
erty for commercial and industrial
purposes: ,- -,
what appear to be natural advantages
far and away ahead Of many other sec
tions, the tapping of the territory by
transit lines and industrial railways
has been very tardy.
A Glaring Oversight.
Usually, with their inherent far
sightedness, it will be found that these
pioneers of sectional upbuilding are
we'll out in front in a territory that
appears to have future, but here
somebody or some one Is guilty OF a
glaring oversight.
Transit facilities, however, are now
! being put in, and there is an indus
trial railroad belt line proposed; which,
when il becomes a reality, will cause
( the section to spring up as though
overnight.
Land values in this section are very
/ low, and, in fact, are looked upon by
/ some as the cheapest in greater New
York. Think of it-land on deep water
/ in New York, high, dry and well
drained, with surface lines traverslng
it's centre, subway lines now under con-
struction, existing railroad stations at
convenient distances, industrial belt
lines proposed and the United States
government spending money for the i'm
provement of tire hsrbor! What
grand opportunity for an industrial
city such as would cause all OF New
York TO point with pride!
Hunts Point Development.
The already prosperous condition OF
The Bronx would be much more wide
spread by the addition of substantial
number of new factories and industrial
plants, affording work TO larger num-
bers Of employees and creating bigger
payrolls.
The industrial development OF the
Bronx Terminal Corporation at Hunts
Point in connection with the water
front operations Of the same property
will be one step in this direction. 1t
will make The Bronx a seaport, and
thereby afford an additional advantage
TO an important class of manufacturers
who require seaport location. Al
though The Bronx at present has over
fifty miles of waterfront, there are no
facilities in the borough for ocean
goirg vessels 10 dock. This new i'm
provement of the Bronx Terminal Cor
poration will put the borough in the
class Of seaport cities and Immediately
permit the location there of manu-
facturers who desire 10 export their
products to European countries. or 10
the Mediterranean ports, or South
America or to Australia, or the Orient
through the Panama Canal.
Receiving Place for Goods.
Moreover, the work will also permit
the direct importation Of goods from
these same countries to supply the
needs Of manufacturers requiring such
imported materials for use in manu-