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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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t;rir to the Revolution. The survey of the stream by the V. S. Government En-gineers was authorized by act of Congress, June 2 >, 1N74. Tin1channel depth in the Harlem River and Sjmi\ten Duyvil Creekis 15 feet at mean low water. In the channel along Dyk-mans Creek there is a depth of 18 feet at mean low water. From the Third Avenue Bridge to the entrance of Dyk-mans Creek into the Harlem River, a distance of about fivemiles, exterior pier and bulkhead lines are laid out, 400 feetapart. The line through Dykmans Meadows, about one halfmile long, is 350 feet wide. The balance of the stream to theHudson River is 400 feet in width. The average rise and fallof the tide in the river is 5 ft. 9 in. at the East River end and4 ft. 6 in. at the Hudson River. The work of making the channel navigable between theHudson and East Rivers was sufficiently complete at the closeof the year 1894 to warrant the celebration by the North SideBoard of Trade of the formal opening of the Harlem River
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L38 The Great North Side. Canal by a land and water parade, and a banquet on June 17.1895. The banks of the river on both 1 < ^ for tin1 greater part arc admirably adapted fco the building of wharves, slips, andbasins, and will afford opportunity for the addition of newdock frontage aboul L44 miles in length through an im-portant part of the city. At High Bridge and at WashingtonBridge the land on both sides of the river is high enough fcopermit of approaches substantially level with the bridgefloors. Vested interests, ami the rapid growth in wealth andpopulation compelled a demand for more and better facilitiesfor transportation over the river, and since annexation fivenew bridges,—Northern U.K., L877; Madison Ave., 1884;Second Avenue, 1885; Washington. 1KKU; and Broadway,1894; have been built 24 feet above mean high water, toconform to the requirements of the War Department. Two bridges of sufficient height to conform to the act ofCongress, have been built to take the place of

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