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Spuyten Duyvil, and Kingsbridge, which still keep their rural 

 character, though the march of improvements and the real- 

 estate operator will soon divest them of this characteristic. 



The next railroad to be constructed within the Borough 

 was the New York and New Haven Railroad, which was 

 chartered in Connecticut. Work was begun at this end of 

 the road in 1847; and on December 25, 1848, the first train, 

 filled with directors and their guests, passed over the road 

 between its termini. The road comes from New Haven and 

 joins the Harlem road at Wakefield, and continues over the 

 Harlem tracks to the station in New York City. Its only 

 station within the Borough is Woodlawn, so that it has not 

 done much in developing this portion of the Borough. It was 

 consolidated with the New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 

 1872, under the name of the New York, New Haven, and Hart- 

 ford Railroad. It is a curious fact that when this railroad 

 first began to run its trains, the passengers were booked as in 

 the days of the stage-coaches, and the conductors were obliged 

 to report the names of the passengers to the company. 



In 1872, the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad was 

 incorporated, with a right of way from the Harlem River to 

 Port Chester, the last village in the county of Westchester on 

 the Sound. It was immediately leased by the New York and 

 New Haven road, and its construction begun. It is usually 

 spoken of as the Suburban, or Harlem, division of the New 

 York, New Haven, and Hartford. Speaking generally, its 

 route follows the shore of the Sound to New Rochelle on the 

 main line. Its station and yards at the Harlem River occupy 

 the site of the house, barns, and home farm of Jonas Bronk, 

 and the manor-house of the Morrises; and on the East River 

 they occupy Oak Point, known in earlier days as Leggett's 

 Point. Access is had to Manhattan by means of the elevated 



