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April, 1911 
class residential sections, such as Park 
Hill and South Yonkers. The banks of 
the river are very precipitous, being one 
continuous range of hills reaching an al¬ 
titude on an average of 450 feet at a 
distance of something less than a mile 
from the water. The crests of these 
ridges are largely taken up by great es¬ 
tates of wealthy New York people, 
among them being Samuel Untermeyer, 
John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefel- 
low, Miss Helen Gould, Edwin Gould and 
other large property owners. At Hast- 
ings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, 
Tarrytown, Ossining and Peekskill there 
are villages of very much the same type, 
varying only in population. They all lie 
close to the river, and are built on pre¬ 
cipitous banks, each street lying far above 
the one next to it, giving each of these 
villages an attractive and unique appear¬ 
ance from the river. There are a number of developments along 
A distinctive house in the Scarsdale estates, 
which shows another type of the popular 
gambrel roof 
of these towns are in New York, while 
others are on the Jersey side of the bound¬ 
ary. The Northern Railroad of New Jer¬ 
sey parallels the Hudon River as far as 
Nyack, 29 miles from New York. The 
best trains to Nyack take but little over an 
hour, and the country traversed is the 
top of the Palisades. All along this road 
there are rapidly-growing suburban towns 
with real country right up to their bounda¬ 
ries — Homestead, Babbitt, Fair view, 
Ridgefield, Morsemere, Palisades Park, 
Feonia, Nordoff, Englewood, Highwood, 
Tenafly, Cresskill, Demarest and Nor¬ 
wood are good examples. The Hudson 
River is near at hand and gives an excel¬ 
lent opportunity for motor boating and 
canoeing. 
Farther inland in New Jersey there are 
various hill sections to appeal to the lov¬ 
ers of this type of scenery. Along the line 
of the Fackawanna, in Morris, Passaic and Somerset Counties, 
this country offering magnificent building sites, with splendid the prospective home-owner who wants real country and elevation, 
views of the river and at reasonable prices. Conspicuous among and who still desires to be within the commuting zone of New 
these is River View Manor, at Hast¬ 
ings, where there is an extremely 
high-class community of about one 
hundred homes, where all of the 
public utilities have been installed. 
Here lots may be bought from 
about $500 upward, depending on 
natural attractiveness. 
There is a magnificent driveway 
running along the crest of the first 
ridge above the river, known as 
Broadway, which for years has been 
the most popular thoroughfare be¬ 
tween New York and Albany. A 
large percentage of wealthy people 
who make their home in this section 
travel backward and forward to the 
city by automobile rather than by 
the trains. 
In contrast to the large towns on 
the east bank of the Hudson the 
west bank has settlements which for 
the most part rely almost entirely 
on New York for business, and are 
limited chieflv to home sites. Some 
i mwm 
A good example of the Southern Colonial architecture 
in Summit 
York with a maximum of an hour 
and fifteen minutes’ travel, and not 
over thirty-five or forty miles distance 
will find his greatest opportunity. 
This road has two distinct lines run¬ 
ning from Hoboken, with connection 
with New York by three ferries and 
by the Hudson and Manhattan tubes. 
The main line goes into Paterson and 
Boonton, and the Morris and Essex 
Division via Newark, the Oranges 
and Morristown. The junction is at 
Denville, which is in the heart of the 
mountain, lake and river section. At 
Summit the Passaic and Delaware 
branch runs to Gillette, Stirling, Mill¬ 
ington, Lyons, Basking Ridge and 
Bernardsville. This last-mentioned 
place has a colony of millionaires, and 
its property values have therefore in¬ 
creased to a point that places it out 
of the reach of people of ordinary 
means. But at any of the above- 
mentioned stations between Summit 
and Bernardsville, there are splendid 
At Nyack, stone construction covered with vines seems most appro¬ 
priate to the location. 
Hillside Avenue, Glenridge, is justly noted for its beautiful shade 
trees and well kept homes 
