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REAL ESTATE
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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 29, 1913
VIEW OF LON(J ISLAND CITY FROM THE RIVER.
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I FUTURE OF LONG ISLAND CITY REALTY
Must Be Along Manufacturing Lines, With Dependence on the Ferry—Anxiety
Caused By Expiration of Ferry Franchise—Local Efforts For Better Train Service.
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WITH the opening of the Steinway
Tunnel to transit operations within
six months, and the completion of the
new railroad station at Van Alst avenue
and Fourth street. Long Island City will
take on a new importance as a transit
center. Not until then will the district
come into the enjoyment of the facilities
for interurban traffic under the river an¬
ticipated for many years. The Steinway
tunnel for trolley lines, and the Pennsyl¬
vania tubes, for through trains, will then
provide the facilities for business men of
Long Island City to go conveniently and
rapidly to their homes in other parts of
the borough.
The Long Island Railroad will operate
electric trains from the new station, and
a great commuting service will be built
up at this point of passengers to and
from the many manufacturing plants in
Long Island City, and also of passengers
to and from Manhattan via the Steinway
tunnel and its connection with the sub¬
way system in Manhattan.
Startling Rumor About the Ferry.
With the near completion of these ar¬
rangements theie has been some public
anxiety over the ferry service, whether
it is to be continued in full effect after
Ihe tunnels are in full service; and ru¬
mors have even been circulated that the
service, recently curtailed, is to be dis¬
continued altogether eventually. The
train service out of Long Island City has
also been shortened to such a degree as
to menace the stability of real estate
that depends on good communication.
At the last meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce of the Borough of Queens,
the transit committee was directed to
take up with the ofificials of the Long
Island Railroad and the Public Service
Commission the matter of better train
service out of the Long Island City sta¬
tion. With the inauguration of the win¬
ter schedule of the Long Island Rail¬
road the last train had been leaving Long
Island City for Flushing at 7:17 and for
Jamaica at 8:02, creating a great hardship
for the traveling public of Long Island
City.
Messrs. John Adikes, chairman of the
Transit Committee, and George J. Ryan,
representing the chamber, held a confer¬
ence with the railroad officials, and as a
result, on November 6 a revised schedule
went into effect on the railroad, giving
additional steam trains from the Long
Island City station at 8:18 p, m,, 9:12
p.m., 10:19 p.m., H :36 p.m., which
make connections at Winfield and Wood-
side stations with the electric trains from
the Pennsylvania station for not only
Flushing, Bayside, College Point, White¬
stone and other points on the North
Shore, but to Jamaica, Far Rockaway,
Hempstead and other points on Long
Island.
The influence of the remarkable in¬
dustrial development now going on in the
Long Island City section of the Borough
of Queens has caused a great demand
for homes in the outlying sections for
the executives of the diflferent manufac-
VIEW OF JACKSON AVENUE FROM THE VIADUCT.