Plan of Permanent Improvement of the Water Front on the East River from Grand to Thirty-fourth St. ...M.B. Brown, 1883 - 58 páginas |
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accommodate adopted Aldermen Appendix avenue Avenue D Blackwell's Island Broome Slip Bulkhead and Pier bulkhead and pierhead bulkhead line bulkhead or river commerce Commissioners of Docks Common Council Comptroller construction Corporation cost Delancey Slip Department of Docks earth filling East river water-front East street easterly side Eleventh street exterior street feet easterly foot of 3d foot of 9th foot of E Foot of East front of pier Grand street Grand to Thirty-fourth Houston street Hudson river laid legislature length of piers Liverpool LOCATION OF PIERS Long Island Sound marginal street Mayor miles navigation Ninth street North river permanent improvement Pier Lines Pier north pierhead line PIERS AND SLIPS port proposed in 1871 respectfully river streets Rivington street shore side of East Sinking Fund Sixty-first street south side square feet Stanton street street to Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth street Tompkins street Total length Twenty-first street Twenty-third streets vessels wharfage room width York
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Página 54 - ... all the provisions of the act entitled " An act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the city of New- York, into one act," passed April 9, 1813, and the several acts amendatory thereof, and in addition thereto, shall be construed to apply to said Tompkins-street and East-street.
Página 54 - SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, in common council convened, to adopt such plan as they may deem most expedient for the regulation and laying out of that part of the said city...
Página 54 - Twenty-third streets, the First avenue and the East river, and to designate and direct where the permanent exterior line or street to the eastward of such part of the said city shall be, in place of that part of Tompkins street which now lies, or is laid out, to the eastward thereof on the present map or plan of the said city.
Página 54 - That Tompkins street, along the East river, as laid out and approved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York...
Página 13 - Mayor is also chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, of the...
Página 58 - ... 466), the dock commissioner of the city was empowered to acquire such lands, wharves, piers, easements, and other property rights as might be necessary for the execution of the plans for the improvement of the water front of the city of New York theretofore adopted, or that might thereafter be adopted, by the department of docks and the commissioners of the sinking fund. These proceedings were instituted under said charter to acquire several pieces of land owned by the appellant, the Consolidated...
Página 57 - That the propriebors of land adjoining or nearest and opposite to East street, as hereby established, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to make and complete said East street on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty, and on or before the said day to fill and level the spaces between their property and the said East street.
Página 54 - York, ot any lands under water, granted to them by this act, adjacent to and in front of the said lands under water so heretofore granted; and the proprietors of lands having a preemptive right to grants of land under water, by virtue of the said act entitled "An act relative to improvements in the city of New- York...
Página 22 - Beginning at a point in the easterly prolongation of the southerly side of East Fourteenth street 288 feet from the westerly side of Tompkins street; thence northerly in a straight line to a point in easterly 'prolongation of the northerly side of East Seventeenth street 535 feet from the bulkhead line approved by the Secretary of War...
Página 50 - ... to the flat and low lands, the uncertainty of the line of high water, the indentations of the shore and other circumstances, they had found it impossible to conform the regulation of that part of the city to the line of the grant from the Legislature, and that they had been obliged to make an exterior street, called Tompkins street, and other streets in conformity thereto, and they prayed for the confirmation of their proceedings. In accordance with their petition the Legislature enacted that...