A CITY WITHIN A CITY 



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opportune time to buy real estate in The Bronx than the present; 

 particularly now that the routes of the new subway and rapid 

 transit lines have been definitely settled. Ground has already been 

 broken by the city for its Lexington Avenue route, which when 

 completed, will tap a territory unequaled in beauty and in salutary 

 and sanitary conditions. Nothing but the upheaval of the conti- 

 nent or other remote catastrophe which no man can foresee can 

 check the stupendous improvements planned for the next decade. 



Old Vyse Mansion 



Let us for a moment glance into the future and see what 

 wonderful transformation is to take place in The Bronx during 

 the intervening period. What a wonderful vision we behold! 

 Thruout the Borough, from the Harlem River on the south to 

 the city line on the north, the Sound on the east, and the Hudson 

 River on the west, we see a complete network of subways, elevated 

 and surface roads, which spread out like the all-embracing arteries 

 of the body. 



The countless acres of unimproved property which for years 



