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Rochelle; proposed New York and New Jersey bridge across the 

 Hudson at One Hundred Forty-ninth Street ; the erection of a new 

 Federal building at One Hundred Forty-ninth Street and Mott 

 Avenue, which is to cost over half a million dollars, and is to in- 

 clude the Bronx Central Post Office, the Internal Revenue Bureau, 

 the Treasury and Commerce and Labor Departments; the build- 

 ing of a connecting railroad, connecting Long Island with the 

 Borough by a bridge; the erection of a direct east side subway; 

 the improvement of the splendid water front by increased dock 

 facilities; and the establishment of a public produce market. 



The following waterway improvements are now under way 

 or planned : Deepening of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, Harlem River, and 

 Bronx Kills in connection with Barge Canal traffic; widening and 

 deepening of Bronx River and Westchester Creek; plan adopted 

 to make the Hutchinson River 80 to 900 feet wide. 



Borough President Cyrus C. Miller proposes a plan for in- 

 dustrial development benefiting directly the area which may be 

 described roughly as lying south and east of a line beginning in 

 the South Bronx at Macomb's Park and running thence easterly 

 across One Hundred Sixty-first Street to Westchester Avenue; 

 thence easterly along Westchester Avenue along West Farms Road 

 and Boston Road to One Hundred Eightieth Street at the easterly 

 boundary of Bronx Park ; thence northerly along the eastern boun- 

 dary of Bronx Park to Bear Swamp Road; thence along Bear 

 Swamp Road to Morris Park Avenue to Stillwell Avenue to Bronx 

 and Pelham Parkway, and from this point east to Long Island 

 Sound. 



This district comprises about one-third the area of The Bronx, 

 or about fourteen square miles. It is bordered on the south and 

 east by the Harlem River, Bronx Kills and Long Island Sound, 

 and intersected by Bronx River and Westchester Creek, which 

 run up into the mainland from the Sound. It has a water front 

 seventeen miles long with bays and indentations for the anchorage 

 of ships and the building of docks. 



The prime necessity for the whole plan is an industrial rail- 

 way for freight around the south and east shores of The Bronx, 

 so as to connect all the railroads coming into The Bronx with the 

 dock system planned by Commissioner Tomkins, and by means of 

 spurs, with the factories to be built in the territory described. 



This will make it possible for a loaded freight car to come 



