New York City (including all boroughs) Telephone Directory, 1914, Part 3

Author: New York Telephone Company
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: New York Telephone Company
Number of Pages: 430

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9th St & 8th Av

Franklin & Green- wich Sta Deshronses & Green- wich Sta

14th St & 8th Av 18th St & 8th Av

Houston & Gwich Bts Christopher # Green- wich 8ts

Times Sq Station (43d 8t & Bway)

chester Avs

90th St & Broadway Intervale Av Columbus Circle (59th St.)

" Hart's laland-

From ft. 28th St., E. R.

" Hoboken- From ft. Barclay, Christopher and W. 28d 8ts. to Newark Ferry Sta., Hoboken.

180th St & Boston 108d &t & Broadway

110th St & Broadway 110th St & Broadway

Manhattan St &

BROOKLYN BRANCH

187th St & Broadway Atlantic Aa 145th St & Broadway Nevios St

157th St & Broadway Hoyt St

168th St & Broadway Borough Hall

RAILROAD PASSENGER STATIONS IN MANHATTAN

Avenue H

Elm Pl

Central of New Jersey, ft. of W. 23d and Liberty 8ts .; Sandy Hook Route (In Summer), ft. of W. 4ad and Cedar Sta. also.

R. R.).

" North Brother Island- From ft. F. 182d Bt.

" Queene Borough (Long Island City) -. From ft. E. 84th St. to Borden Ave., Long Island , City (L. L R. I.).

Randall'e Isiand-

From ft. E. 30th, E. 120th and L 188th Sts.

" Richmond Barough (Staten laland) .... From ft. Whitehall St. to St. George, Staten Island. from Bay Ridge (39th St.).

Riker's Island- From ft. R $8th St.

Ward's Island --

From ft. E. 118th St.

If you are contemplating taking new service, or making any changes in or additions to your present service, you should notify our nearest Commerical Office, in writing, as far in advance of the above date as possible, in order that you may take advantage of the new directory listings.

ADVERTISING in the telephone directory offers an attractive means of reaching all telephone subscribers in New York City, Advertisers desiring new or additional space are requested to send copy at least six weeks in advance of the above date in order that proofs may be prepared and submitted for approval.

Advertising formus CLOSE JANUARY 28th

Address all communications relative to advertising to the Directory Advertising Department, 25 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY

111th St & id AY 108th St & 3d Av 117th Bt & 26 AY 110th St & od Av

18let St & Bd AT 185th St & Dd Av 127th St & Id AF 130th St & &d Av 19th &t (See sta-190d - at ) betwerd Con a & Av 198th St - Willis ... Bubway Div 1404 St ) and f 1890 ft) Alexander "Avenue

USEFUL INFORMATION

PIERS IN MANHATTAN-Continued North River- Continued

PIERS IN MANHATTAN-Conturved

Pier No.

Street.

Location and New York Ferry.

W. 40th.

From ft. 2. 988 BŁ

Jay. Hantion

" Blackwell's island From ft. B. 28th 8t., ft. 2. 8868t. IL. E. 70th St.

* Brooklyn Borough-

From . Catharine St. to Main St., Bklyn Boro. From ft. E, Sad St. to Bway. Bklyn Boro.

From Z iad St. to Bury,

Bklyn Boro. From ft. E, Houston St. to Grand St., Bklyn Boro,

From ft. Fulton Bt. to Fulton St., Bklya Boro.

South Ferry

110th St between 9th & Columbus Avs 118th St & 0th Av 188th St & 8th Av 130th St & 8th Av 135th St & 0th Aa 140th St & 9th Av

Bronx Park

Sixth Avenue Line 145th St & 8th Av 150th St & 9th Av connecta with New Statians York & Putnam

and Bway., Bklyn Boro. From ft. Roosevelt St. to Bway. Bklyn Boro.

Barrow. Christopher.

w. 10th

Perry. w. 11th.

29 (new) Catharine & Merket.

29 Market.

90 Pike & Market.

01-93 Pike.

Robinsons Stra., ft. Congres South

Robinsons Strs .. ft. Congress

South

" Edgewater-

From w. 180th St.

" Ellis island-

88 Clinton & Montgomery.

Union Stores, foot Irving. Dolon Stores,ft. Sedgwickst.

Hmltoo Hmiton

82 Foot of Degraw St. & North Pier. Hamilton Wht.

M North Cen- trai Pler.

Atlantic Basin. Hmiton

35 Kast Cen tral Pier ..

Hamilton Ave. Commercial Whart, Attantle Besin, foot of Imlay &t ... Hatton 36 South Cen- { Clinton Wharl. | Hilton tral Pier. [ Pioneer St.

Seth Gerinan Lloyd --. Pier No 1, ft of 4th St. Piers 2 & $, 1 of 3d &t.

Halland Americse Line -- Pier ft of 6th St

Scandinavian Line- Pier ft of 17 8₺

Foot of Z. $d. Foot of E. $4th

foot of Coffey St ....... ... Ethiton 45 ( Red Hook Stores, foot of

Wa want to make this Sestina

ful and malable to the Public

oof Fam Brunt St .............

... Hmlton ,

Foot of W. 40th.

47 | Plers A and B Erie Basin Biores, foot of RichardsSt ... Hilton

theos are invited.

Wow Yurt Talaphone

Directory Advertising Department 15 Church N. Y. CAL

34 W. 44th

Foot of Albany, X. R.

THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE

NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Goes to Press Thursday, February 4th, 1915

The February issue will contain thousands of new names, and on account of the usual removals, changes of firm names, business designations, etc., many listings will be changed.

New York Central & Hudson River, 42d St. and 4th Ave .; Harlem, 128th St. Harlem Division, 4th Ave. and 42d St. 186th; Putnam Division, 185th St. and 0th Ave.

New York, Ontario & Cortlandt and W. 424 8ts. & Western, ft. of New York, Susquehanna & Western, ft. of Chambers and W. $9d Sts. New York, Westchester & Borten, 180th St. and Morria Park Ave. Narthern of New Jersey, ft. of Chambers and W. 28d Sts.

Reld Alv

Pennsylvania, ft. of Cortlandt and Der- brosses Btn., 7th Ave., 81st to 83d

Sta.

Philadelphia & Reading, ft. at W. sad and Liberty Sta.

Staten Island, ft of Whitehall Ot West Shore, It. Cortlandt Lod W.

FERRIES FROM AND TO MANHATTAN To Astoria-

From . Wall St. to Montague St., Bkiyo Boro. From ft. Whitehall St.Ito Atlantie and Hamliton Aves., Bklyn Boro. From ft. Whitehall to 39th St., Bilya Boro.

" College Point (Queens Borough) -... From ft. B. 99th St. (185th St).

Gamesrooft. Bloomfeld.

Robinsons Strs .. ft. Warren Baltic Terminal. It. Baltic 8t.

South South

From Battery, ft. Whitehall St. . Operations suspended; may resume at any time.

48 Jefferson.

Hamburg American Line. Pler No 1, N of 2d St. Pler No 2, ft of 1st Bt.

From ft. W. sad to 14th St, Hoboken.

W. s.d.

Recreation Plen.

Jersey City-

From ft. Chambers & W. 384 Sta. to Pnvonis Av., Jersey City (Eris, Northern of New Jersey. N J. & N. Y. R. IL and New York, Susquehanna & Western R. R.).

From ft. Cortlandt and Desbrosses Ste. to Montgomery St., Jersey City (Pennsylvania R. L.).

From ft. Liberty and W. $$d Sts. to Communipaw, Jersey

City (Central R. R. of New Jersey and Lehigh "Valley

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, ft. of Barclay, Christopher and W. #8d 8ts

Erie, ft. of Chambers and W. 28d Sts. Hudson Terminal, Cortlandt, Church and Fulton Sts. Hudson and kanhattan R. R. Newark and Jersey City to Morton St., N. Y., to Christopher St., to Sth Ave., slong Oth Ava. to sød St.

Lehigh Valley. ft. af W. $8d and Liberty Ste.

Atlantle Av

Long Island, 7th Ave, and 93d St., also ft. E 94th St.

Chauncey St

Houston & Bowery 0th St & &d Av 14th St & 3d Av 18th St & &d Av

14th St & lat Av 19th St & 1at Av $34 8t bet 1st & $d33d St & 3d Av 28th St & 3d Av $4th St & 24 Ax branch to $4th St 84th St & od Av R branch to 84th St Ferry. E did St & &d Av 90th St & Id An 07th St & Ød Av 48d St & 3d branch to Grand Central Depot 47th St & od Av 05th St & 24 Av sød St & Bd Av Tid Bt & ad Av 80th St & 2d Av 90th St & 3d Av 00th St & Bd Av #7th St & Ød Av 70th St & od Av Doth St & Id Av 84th St & ad Av 89th St & 3d AV 109th St & id AY 99th St & 3d Av

City Line

New York & Long Branch, ft. of Liberty, Cortlandt, Derbrosses, W. 28d Sts. and 7th Ave. and $8d 8t. - In aummer, ft. W. 43d and Cedar Sta. also.

Franklin Av Nostrand Av Tompkins As Bninner Av

10 (new) Albany. (old) Oarliale, (new) Ceder.

W. 49th.

w. both

Empire Stores, entrance. [ Fulton or foot Main St.

Martin Stores, about No. M Furmio St ... Fultoo 8 | Martin Stores, about No. 66 Furmso 8t ... Fulton

18 Burling Slip.

Leroy.

Morten

Pierrepont Stores. Furman St., bear Montague ........ Wal SL

18 j Woodruff Stores, foot of Je- ralemoo St. .....:

Columbia Stores, foot of A"- lantic Av ... South

Port Richmand.

118th St & Lenox Av

Jacksoo & West- chester Avs

Emilon

W. tot. W. 270L w. 28th. w. 29th. w. soch W. $1ot w. s&d.

70 F. $24.

88 Unloo Naval Stores, foot of Dikeman St .... ........... Hmlton

Broad way

Prospect Park Woodruff Av

Church Av

Beverly Road

South Ferry

Hanover Square Lorimer St

Tweotleth St

101et St & Broadway

180th St & ad Av 183d St & 3d Av Fordham Road (Fordham)

Battery Place

Himpeoo St & South-

foot of

op Navy St

How the Public Profits By Telephone Improvements

Here is a big fact in the telephone progress of this country:

Original Bell Telephone 1876

Standard Bell Telephone To-dity

Early Telephone Exchange

Typical Present-day Exchange

If City Wires Were Carried Overhead, 10 Poles of 20 Cross Arms Each Would be Required

1800 Wires in an Underground Cable Less Than Three Inches in Diameter

Hand in hand with inventions and developments which have improved the service many fold have come operating economies that have greatly cut its cost.

To appreciate these betterments and their resulting . economies, consider a few examples :

Your present telephone instrument had seventy- two ancestors; it is better and cheaper than any of them.

Time was when a switchboard required a room full of boys to handle the calls of a few hundred subscribers. Today, two or three girls will serve a greater number without confusion and very much more promptly.

An underground cable less than three inches in diameter now carries as many as eighteen hundred wires. If strung in the old way, these would require ten sets of poles, each with twenty cross arms-a congestion utterly prohibitive in city streets.

These are some of the familar improvements. They have saved tens of millions of dollars. But those which have had the most radical effect, resulting in the largest economies and putting the telephone within everyone's reach, are too technical to describe here. And their value can no more be estimated than can the value of the invention of the automobile.'

This progress in economy, as well as in service, has given the United States the Bell System with about. ten times as many telephones, proportionate to. the population, as in all Europe.

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

One Policy

One System

Universal Service

NEW YORK CITY

(Including all Boroughs)

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

October 15, 1914

For Information Regarding Telephone Service, Contracts, Collections and Other Matters of General Interest, see pages 18 to 21. For Toll Rates, see pages 22 to 24 ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMPANY

NEW YORK

TELEPHONE COMPANY

EXECUTIVE AND GENERAL OFFICES

. 15 DEY STREET (Borough of Manhattan)

NEW YORK CITY

GENERAL NOTICES for the Information of Telephone Users

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES

The New York City Telephone Directory is issued three times a year, in February, May and October; and contains the listings of subscribers in all boroughs of New York City.

For listings of subscribers in nearby cities, towns and sub- urbs, consult the Suburban Directory.

This Directory is the property of the New York Telephone Company. It is furnished free of cost to subscribers and must be surrendered to the carrier who delivers the next subsequent edition.

Many call numbers are changed and new numbers listed in every issue of the directory. It is for subscribers' own interest as well as that of the Telephone Company, that all old directories are collected. 'as the use of obsolete telephone books results in wrong number calls, which are an annoyance to both subscribers and the Company.

The Company assumes no liability for damages arising from errors or omissions in the making up or printing of the Directory, nor can it guarantee the permanency of call numbers assigned or to be assigned. Subscribers are, therefore, advised not to print telephone numbers on stationery, etc .. but to use the phrase "Telephone Connection."

HOW TO USE THE TELEPHONE

· Speak directly into the monthpiece with your lips close to it. Speak distinctly and deliberately.

Obtain telephone numbers from the Telephone Directories. Call- ing numbers from memory, or taking them from cards, letterheads, etc., often results in wrong number connections and delays.

If the number is not found in the Directory, call "Information." Calls for information are free of charge.

When giving a number to the operator, state -- (1) the name of the central office wanted, (2) each figure of the telephone number, and (3) the party line letter, if there is one. Numbers which are even hundreds or even thousands should be given as such, instead of each figure being given separately.

Examples:

John 1253 "John, one-two-five-three" Main 125-J "Main, one-two-five, Party J" Broad 4800 "Broad, four-eight-hundred" Worth 5000 "Worth, five-thousand"

If you are calling from a party line station, announce the letter of your station, after giving the call as above.

Example: "This is party J calling."

After giving the number, listen to the operator as she repeats it. If she repeats the number correctly, say, "Yes" or "Right." If she does not repeat the number correctly, say "No" and give the number again.

After calling a number, remain with the receiver at your ear until the called number answers or until you receive a definite report. When the called number answers, announce first the name of the person to whom you wish to talk and then your own name or the name of your firm.

Answer telephone calls promptly in order to avoid a report of "don't answer" being given.

When answering calls, announce your name or the name of your firm. To call back the operator, move the receiver hook up and down slowly.

Do not hang up the receiver until you are ready for the operator to take down the connection.

When you are not using the telephone, see that the receiver is on the hook, large end down.

QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS

Operators are not supposed to answer questions or to engage in conversation beyond that necessary to complete connections. A subscriber who wishes to ask a question should first call for " Information. "

Any complaint should be telephoned, not written. Ask the operator for the "Traffic Manager .. "

CLASSES OF TELEPHONE CALLS

There are three broad classes of telephone calls, viz : L. Local Calls.

2. Two-Number Toll Calls.

3. Particular-Person Toll Calls.

A Local Call is one to any telephone located within the same local service area.

A Two-Number Toll Call is one made by number for a telephone located outside the local service area and at a point to which there is a two-number toll rate. Charge is made if connection is com- pleted with the number called, the time for which the charge is made beginning when the number called first answers. More rapid service can be given, and in general a lower rate is charged, on two- number toll calls than on particular-person toll calls.

A Particular-Person Toll Call is one made by name for a per- son reached through a telephone which is located outside the local ser- ce area and at a point to which there is a particular-person toll cate. Charge is made if connection is completed with the particular person called (or with the number called, if the calling subscriber has indicated that he is willing to talk with "anyone" at the called sta- tion), the time for which the charge is made beginning when conver- sation with the particular person (or the number called, if it is a call for "anyone") first starts. Toll Calls between certain points within a relatively short distance of each other (see rate tables in telephone directories) must be made as two-number calls, no particular-person calls being accepted between such points.

REGULATIONS GOVERNING LOCAL CALLS

Local Calls should be made by number except on calls made for the purpose of filing telegrams and on certain emergency calls, sa hereinafter shown. .

- Messenger Calls-Messenger service will not be arranged for by the Telephone Company on local calls, for the purpose of calling to a given telephone persons having no telephone. It is sometimes possi- ble for calling subscribers to arrange for messenger service through public telephone agents located in the district called. In such a case, the calling subscriber should ask for "Information" and give her the address of the person desired. If the information records show & public telephone in that neighborhood, the calling subscriber will be given the number of that telephone. The calling subscriber must then make the necessary arrangements with the agent at the called station for the messenger service and for payment therefor. The Telephone Company assumes no responsibility for the messenger ser- vice rendered and will not bill the charge for such service against the calling subscriber's telephone. The regular charge will be made for the telephone connection to the called station, and if a return call is made from the called station, it will be charged to that station.

Collect Calls-The collection of telephone charges from the called station will not be permitted on local calls.

REGULATIONS GOVERNING TWO-NUMBER TOLL CALLS

Two-Number Toll Calls must be made by number in the same manner as local calls. When a two-number toll connection is desired, give the number to the first operator who answers, and remain with the telephone receiver at the ear until the called number answers os until the operator reports. If the call is given to the operator by number it will be handled as a two-number call.

Messenger Calls-Messenger service will not be, arranged for by the Telephone Company on two-number toll calls for the purpose of calling to a given telephone persons having no telephone connection. It is sometimes possible for calling subscribers to arrange for memen- ger service through public. telephone agents located in the district ' called. In such a case, the calling subscriber should ask for ."Infor- mation" and give her the address of the person desired. If the infor- mation recorda show a public telephone in that, neighborhood, the calling subscriber will be given the number of that telephode. The

GENERAL NOTICES for the Information offTelephone Users

calling subscriber must make the necessary arrangements with the agent at the called station for the messenger service and for payment therefor. The Telephone Company assumes no responsibility for the messenger service rendered and will not bill the charge for such service against the calling subscriber's telephone. The regular toll charge will be made for the telephone connection to the called station and if a return call is made from the called station, it will be charged to that station.

Collect Calls-The collection of telephone charges from the called station will not be permitted on two-number toll calls.

Rates and Charges-Rates to the more important points to which two-number toll calls may be made, will be found in rate tables in telephone directories. -

REGULATIONS GOVERNING PARTICULAR-PERSON TOLL CALLS

To make a particular-person toll call, or to secure informa- tion concerning the rates on such calls, tell the operator who first answers your call, the name of the city, town or locality in which the person with whom you wish to talk is located. The operator will connect you with a Toll or Long Distance operator who will identify "herself by answering "Toll Operator" or "Long Distance." When the Toll or Long Distance operator answers, give her the following details:

The telephone number from which the call is made and your . name, if you desire to give your name.

. The number of the telephone desired, if known.

The firm name or the name and initials of the person under whose name the telephone is listed and the street address, if the telephone number is not known.

The name of the person with whom you wish to speak. The name of the alternate person, if you are willing to talk with anyone else in case the person desired cannot be reached.

The name of the city or town and state in which the person desired is located.

Listen for the operator to repeat the details of your call and re- main at the telephone until she indicates that you may hang up the receiver.

»: Messenger Calle -- When necessary, a messenger will be sent to the address of the person desired requesting him to come to a tele- phone, provided the calling subscriber guarantees payment for the mesenger service. The exact amount disbursed for messenger service will be charged in addition to the charge for the telephone connection und will be included in the bill for toll service against the calling telo- phone.

Collect Calls-Upon the request of the calling subscriber, the charges on a particular-person toll call, including messenger charges, will be collected from the called station, if such charges are accepted by the person called. Requests to have the charges collected in this "way must be made when the call is given to the toll operator.

Appointment Calls-An appointment to talk at a specified time may be made by notifying the toll operator of the time at which the connection is desired. No extra charge will be made for appointment malla (except for any messenger service which may be involved) but the Company cannot guarantee the completion of the connection at the exact time specified.

Leave Word,Calls-If the person desired is not immediately reached at the telephone called, the Operator will at the request of the calling subscriber, leave word (without charge) to have him call when ready to talk. On Leave Word Calls a message will be left at the IF called station for the person desired to call a particular toll operator; for example: "Philadelphia Operator." When' the person receiving auch a message is ready to talk, he should ask the first operator who answers to connect him with the toll operator mentioned in the message.

Rates-The more important points to which particular-person toll calls may be made, will be found in rate tables in telephone directories.

Reports-In case there is delay in completing a call, the toll operator will advise the calling subscriber, at suitable intervals, ro- garding the cause of the delay.

Request for Charges-If anyone calling from a regular sub- scriber's station (not a public telephone) wishes to be notified of the amount of the charges on his call, he will save time by requesting this information at the time he gives his call to the toll operator. If the request for such information is not made until the completion of the conversation, unavoidable delay may result while the operator obtains the rate and computes the charges.

SUPERVISION OF TOLL CALLS BY PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE ATTENDANTS

'1 Supervision of Toll Connections by private 'branch exchange attendants interferes with satisfactory service, and therefore attendants should not listen on the line after the connection has been completed.

FREE CALLS

Calls from any telephone in the Metropolitan Division may be made to any Department of the Telephone Company in that Division without charge.

The Metropolitan Division includes the five Boroughs of the City of New York-Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond (Staten Island), the New York Counties of Nadade sau, Suffolk (Long Island), Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, the town of Tuxedo in Orange County and Greenwich, Conn .; also the New Jersey Counties of Bergen, Essex, 'Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Union and a part of " Ocean County.

POLICEMEN and FIREMEN will be allowed Free Local Service, provided that at the time the connection is asked for the policeman or fireman making the call gives the operator his badge number and states that the call is made in the per- formance of his official duties, as follows:

(1) From any Public Telephone in the Boroughs of Man- hattan and The Bronx to any other station in these Boroughs.

(2) From any Public Telephone in the Borough of Brooklyn to Police or Fire Headquarters in that Borough.

(3) From any Public Telephone in the Borough of Queens to Police or Fire Headquarters in that Borough.

(4) From any Public Telephone in the Borough of Rich- mond to Police or Fire Headquarters in that Borough,

On all free calls made from coin box stations, the coin de- . posited in order to call the operator will be returned,

EMERGENCY CALLS

Calls for the purpose of summoning assistance in case of fre. lawlessness or accident will be given special attention, if at the time the call is made it is indicated that the call is necessitated by an emergency. The call should begiven to the operator in such a way that the nature of the emergency is clearly indicated; as, for example, " I. want to report a fire," or "I want to get a policeman."

If circumstances compel the calling party to leave the tele- phone before obtaining connection with the desired station, the operator should be told of the exact location where help is needed in addition to the nature of the emergency.

GENERAL NOTICES for the Information of Telephone Users

TELEGRAMS BY TELEPHONE

Western Union Telegraph Company

By an arrangement between the Western Union Telegraph Company and the New York Telephone Company, telegraph messages may be telephoned to Western Union offices at any hour of the day or night for transmission to any part of the world. The charges for telegraph messages will be billed by the New York Telephone Company on the telephone bill together with such telephone charges as may apply.

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New York City (including all boroughs) Telephone Directory, 1914, Part 3

Author: New York Telephone Company Publication date: 1914 Publisher: New York Telephone Company Number of Pages: 430

Author: New York Telephone Company
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: New York Telephone Company
Number of Pages: 430