Queens Borough The Borough Of Homes And Industry PDF Download

Excerpt from Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920: The Borough of Homes and Industry The expenditure Of this vast sum of money has resulted in making Queens Borough, once but a county on Long Island now a real integral part of New York City. Its many residential and industrial centers which even today are separated by large, undeveloped, intervening areas, are expanding so rapidly that they will soon grow into one continuous built-up community. The growth of Queens Borough during the past ten years, despite the lack of cheaper transit facilities, has been marvelous. What it will be in the next ten years with transit facilities equal, and in many cases, superior to every other section of New York City, will surprise even the most confident. Today Queens is well started on the most wonderful development that has ever taken place in any borough of New York City, or, for that matter, in any city of the world. It is the purpose of this publication to set forth the commercial, industrial, financial and residential advantages and possibilities of the Borough of Queens considered by itself. It is not generally realized how great a city Queens Borough would be separated from its political connections with New York City. With an area of 117 square miles, or 3770 of the land area of New York, it is as large as Philadelphia and three times as large as Boston. With a population of in 1920 it would be among the first twelve cities in the United States. Industrially, Queens ranks 15th in the annual value of its manufactured products. Not more than three cities in the country exceed it in the value of plans filed for new buildings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.