Trow's general directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, city of New York, 1922-1923, Part 1

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INTRODUCTION

PREPARED FOR TROW'S GENERAL DIRECTORY BY THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK

The 133rd volume of Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx is herewith presented to its patrons and the general public.

Every effort has been made to keep this edition up to the standard of accuracy and completeness of former editions. The previous edition (volume 132) was issued in January 1921. During the past two years the percentage of removals, especially in the business districts, has been approximately 76% and has added considerably to the work involved. The correct reporting of these changes has multiplied by many times the value of the directory. While the percentage in the residence districts did not run as high as the business changes, it was considerably above the nor- mal percentage, and were it not for the rental situation and the protection rendered by the emergency laws enacted to protect both landlord and tenant, which made it possibble for thousands of families to remain where they were, the percentage of residence removals would have been at least 50% higher than was ever known before.

The City of New York is situated at the mouth of the Hudson River on New York Bay. It is the Metropolis of the United States. It belongs to the entire country, just as London belongs to the Empire of Great Britain, Paris to France and Berlin to Germany. Every American has as much right to regard New York as his City as have the actual residents within the City limits.

New York City contains 314.75 square miles or 201,446 acres. Its highest natural elevation is Todt Hill, Borough of Richmond, 430 feet.

In population, industry, commerce and finance, New York is the leading city in the world.

It is difficult to make comparisons between the popu- lations of New York and London. It can be done only by comparing similar districts. The City of London is sur- rounded by other communities which are included in the London Metropolitan District, the population of which on June 19, 1921, was 7,476,168. The population of New York City within a similar area, with a radius of 19 miles from City Hall, on January 1, 1920, was 7,820,676. The rate of increase is more rapid in the New York Metropolitan District than it is in the London Metropolitan District.

New York City, whcih was formed on January 1, 1898, by the consolidation of the old City of New York with Brooklyn, Long Island City and other municipalities, is divided into five Boroughs as follows: Manhattan, 14,038 acres; The Bronx, 26,017 acres; Brooklyn, 49,709 acres; Queens, 78,082 acres; and Richmond, 36,688 acres.

The population of the Boroughs on January 1, 1920, ac- cording to the United States Census was: Manhattan, 2,284,103; The Bronx, 732,016; Brooklyn, 2,018,356; Queens, 469,042; and Richmond, 116,531; total, 5,620,048.

The population of the City is constantly fluctuating. More than 100,000 strangers visit it every day. Each day, excepting Sundays, in addition to the visitors, 307,700 com- muters are brought into the City.

The railroad.s in 1921 brought into New York 138,- 897,981 passengers.

The City contained in 1920, 1,991,547 persons who came to this country as imm grants and 2,303,082 who were born in this country, but oni or bot. of whose parents were

immigrants. The City contained 479,797 persons born in Russia; 390,832 born in Italy, 203,450 born in Ireland, 194,154 born in Germany, 145,679 born in Poland and 126,739 born in Austria. The City's population contained 152,647 negroes.

The Census of 1920 gave 2,802,638 males and 2,81,7,- 410 females in the City.

There were 134,241 births in the City in 1921, or 23.34 for each 1,000 of population; 60,846 marriages or 10.58 for each 1,000 of population, and 64,257 deaths or 11.17 for each 1,000 of population.

The waterfront of New York Harbor, including the New Jersey side, is 771.33 miles long, of which 578.4 miles are in New York City as follows: Manhattan, 43.2 miles; The Bronx, 79.8 miles; Brooklyn, 201.5 miles; Queens, 196.8 miles; and Richmond, 57.1 miles. New Jersey has 192.93 miles of waterfront.

If this waterfront were extended it would reach from Charleston to Boston along the Atlantic Seaboard or from New York to a point one hundred miles west of Chicago.

The Port of New York is under control of the Port of New York Authority, composed of commissioners appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey. This Authority is working out a plan of port extension and im- provement.

There are approximately 200 companies operating ships in and out of the Port, the area of which is 175 square miles. Any six of the other leading ports of the world could be placed inside this area.

The imports of merchandise through the Port of New York in 1922 were valued at $1,366,010,488; the exports of domestic merchandise were $1,277,810,188 and of for- eign merchandise $40.445,485. The duties collected amounted to $226, 743,570.

From the Port of New York 5,280 vessels of 19,470,- 642 tons were cleared in 1922.

The Port does nearly one-half the total foreign trade of the United States and approximately one-half of the domestic commerce by water.

In 1919 out of total trade of $10,327,000,000 for the whole country, 44.8 per cent, or $4,635,000,000 passed through the Port of New York; in 1920 total trade was $13,- 346,000,000, and 47.1 per cent, or $6,286,000,000 passed through New York; in 1921 total trade was $10,170,- 000,000, of which 43 per cent, or $4,465,000,000 passed through the Port of New York.

The tonnage of vessels engaged in foreign trade which entered the Port of New York in 1920 was 17,404,188, or 27 per cent of the total tonnage entering the United States.

Approximately 75,000,000 tons of freight move in and out of the Port of New York annually and of this 40,- 000,000 tons move by steamship. An ocean steamship enters and leaves the Port of New York every twenty min- utes daily every day in the year. The value of the foreign commerce of the Port in 1920 was $18,000,000 a day.

In 1921, 54,100,228 bushels of wheat were received at the Port of New York, 13,229, 736 bushels of corn, -11,213,- 051 bushels of oats, 6,259,875 bushels of barley and 3,- 099,743 bushels of rye, a total of 87,902,633 bushels of grain. The receipts of flour in the same year were 11,- 925,610 barrels.

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uring the year ending June 30, 1920, the total num- f passengers arriving at the Port of New York from „n countries was 415,722; of these 85,173 were ed States citizens returning, 105,343 non-immigrant as and 225,206 immigrants. The New York total of ), 722 compares with 28,971 at San Francisco, the next argest, and 778,749 for the entire United States.

New York has inland waterway connections with Buf- falo and the Great Lakes via the New York State Barge canal, with New England via Long Island Sound and the Cape Cod canal, with the South via the Delaware and Rari- tan canal and the Delaware River to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal to Chesapeake Bay ports; and the Govern- ment has taken over and is improving the Chesapeake and Delaware canal and has made surveys and reports on the proposed New Jersey ship canal between the Delaware River at Bordentown and Raritan Bay at Morgan.

The City consumes 8,455,200,000 pounds of food a year. This includes 531,000 carloads of foodstuffs or the daily receipt of 560 carloads of food by rail, water and truck. The City drinks 977,552,440 quarts of milk a year, or 2,670,826 quarts every day. This milk is supplied by 420,000 cows on 40,000 dairy farms.

The City has 32,590 manufacturing establishments em- ploying 825,056 persons, of whom 638,775 are wage earn- ers. These establishments pay salaries of $326, 171,741 and wages of $805,822,451. Their capital is $3,038,557,492 and the value of their products is $5,260, 707,577.

One-twelfth, or 8 per cent of the entire manufacturing product of the United States is produced within the bound- aries of the Port of New York.

The assessed valuation for taxes in the City in 1922 was $10,460,599,880 and the tax levy was $286,077,288. The assessed valuation of real estate was $10,249,991,835 and of personal property $210,608,045. The total of the City budget in 1922 was $350,516,525.

The net debt of the City in 1922 was $1,067,082, 137 and the interest payments were $55, 144,736.

The transactions on the New York Stock Exchange in 1921 were 173,020,950 shares and the value of bonds which changed hands was $3,619,178,000.

During the twenty-five years since 1897, the City of New York has spent a vast sum on public improvements among which may be mentioned $300,000,000 for sub- ways; $200,000,000 for additional water supply; $50,000,- 000 for new bridges and $95,000,000 for dock construc- tions. These outlays are in the nature of profit-earning cap- ital investments, the profits of which will eventually extin- guish the debts incurred and return a surplus to the public treasury.

The deposits in National and State banks and trust companies, as of October 1, 1922, totalled $6,900,262,400. In 1897 these deposits totalled $672,434,200. The in- crease of $6,227,828,200 shows that there is more than ten times as much money credited to depositors as there was twenty-five years ago.

A quarter of a century ago the total capital of the banks of New York was $63,222,700. Today it is $346,- 222,100, or considerably more than five times what it was in 1897.

In twenty-five years the surplus of New York banks has increased from $76,818,700 to $545,981,400 or more than seven times what it was in 1897.

The total resources of this City's financial institutions under State and National control in 1922 amounted to $8,241,935,000. Twenty-five years ago the figure was $826,615,800, nearly a tenfold increase since 1897.

Bank clearings for the year 1897 amounted to $31,- 337,760,948. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, they totalled $213,326,385,000, almost a seven-fold in- crease. The average daily clearings have jumped from $103,000,000 to $706,000,000.

The increase in thrift among the residents of New York City, is indicated in the reports of the Savings Banks, on file at The Merchants' Association's offices. These show that the depositors living in the City's five Boroughs now num- ber 1,680,625, as against 1,222,366 in 1897, and that they

now have to their credit $2,069,779,824.85 as compared with $529,909,247.74 twenty-five years ago.

The number of savings bank depositors in the City on July 1, 1922, were 1,680,625 and the amount of their deposits $2.069,779,824.

There are 184 hotels in the City, with 70,000 rooms.

The police force of New York City on August 10, 1922, contained 11,960 men,

There are 5,995 men in the Fire Department of New York City.

New York City has more than 600 miles of subway and elevated tracks.

There are four City bridges over the East River-the Brooklyn Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. In addition, the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge, which crosses Ward's Island and Hell Gate, carries through tracks from New Eng- land to Long Island and thence under the East River, Man- hattan, and the Hudson River to Washington and the South.

There are three tunnels under the Hudson River-the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel, and the two tunnels of the Hudson Tube. A fourth tunnel, which will permit vehicles to pass under the River from Manhattan to the Jersey shore, is under construction.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fifth Avenue and Eighty-Second Street, Manhattan, contains one of the finest collections of paintings and art objects in the world. It is free to the public excepting on Mondays and Fridays.

The American Museum of Natural History is known throughout the world for its scientific collections. It is at Columbus Avenue and Seventy-Seventh Street, and is open to the public every day in the week.

The City has a splendid park system covering 500 acres, assessed at more than $600,000,000. The system includes 120 miles of parkways, 108 playgrounds and nine recreation piers, besides public baths, gymnasiums, bathing beaches, golf links, tennis courts, baseball fields and the like.

The distance from the Battery to the northern boundary of the City at Yonkers is fifteen and one-half miles and from the Battery to Coney Island in the other direction is ten miles.

New York is the oldest incorporated City in the United · States.

The water supply of the city is drawn partly from the Catskill Mountains through an aqueduct 92 miles long and partly from the Croton Watershed in Westchester and Putnam Counties, 22 miles north of the City Line, The Cats- kill Watershed, which had cost $154,000,000 on June 30, 1922, has an area of 571 square miles and the Croton Watershed an area of 375 square miles. The City consumed 731,300,000 gallons of water daily in 1921. The Catskill water is brought through a high pressure tunnel, several hundred feet below the level of the ground, under the Boroughs of The Bronx and Manhattan to Brooklyn.

The New York Aquarium, at the Battery, was erected by the United States Government in 1807 as a fort. It is the largest in the world and it contains fishes, turtles, cro- codilians, marine mammals and invertebrates.

The New York Zoological Park covers 264 acres and contains specimens of hundreds of species of animals, rep- tiles and birds. There are Botanical Gardens in The Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The New York Public Library, with branches in build- ings given to the City by Andrew Carnegie, contains more than 2,500,000 volumes.

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences contains unexcelled collections of art objects.

There are 452,897 buildings in New York City, of which 181,266 are one family dwellings. The most valuable building is the Equitable, which is assessed at $30,000,000. The tallest building is the Woolworth Building, 51 stories, 792 feet. The next tallest is the Metropolitan Life Buildnig, 50 stories, 700 feet, third is the Singer Building, 41 stories, 612 feet.

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Mayor- John F. Hylan. Secretary-John F. Sinnott. Executive Secretary-Augustin Kelly.

Borough Presidents

Julius Miller, Pres. Borough of Mhtn, 19 E 98th. Edward Riegelmann, Pres. Borough of Bkn, 179 arcy av, Bkn. Henry Bruckner, Pros. Borough of the Bronx, 958 rant av. Maurice E. Connolly, Pres. Borough of Queens. inden, Corona.

Matthew J. Cahill, Pres. Borough of Richmond, ew Brighton, B. R.

Board of Aldermen Ci y Hall, Manhattan

Murray Hulbert, Pres., 600 W 140th. Wm. T. Collins, Vice-Chairman, 201 E 30th.

Borough of Manhattan

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Trow's general directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, city of New York, 1922-1923, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1922-1923 Publisher: Trow Directory Co Number of Pages: 962

Author:
Publication date: 1922-1923
Publisher: Trow Directory Co
Number of Pages: 962