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Real estate record and builders' guide: [v. 92, no. 2385]: November 29, 1913

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REAL ESTATE AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 29, 1913 VIEW OF LON(J ISLAND CITY FROM THE RIVER. ■■lii ■■■i^ iPIIJIIMII ■■■■■■■■B I FUTURE OF LONG ISLAND CITY REALTY Must Be Along Manufacturing Lines, With Dependence on the Ferry—Anxiety Caused By Expiration of Ferry Franchise—Local Efforts For Better Train Service. ■■■■■■■^ IlillWIIIIiiliHlli WITH the opening of the Steinway Tunnel to transit operations within six months, and the completion of the new railroad station at Van Alst avenue and Fourth street. Long Island City will take on a new importance as a transit center. Not until then will the district come into the enjoyment of the facilities for interurban traffic under the river an¬ ticipated for many years. The Steinway tunnel for trolley lines, and the Pennsyl¬ vania tubes, for through trains, will then provide the facilities for business men of Long Island City to go conveniently and rapidly to their homes in other parts of the borough. The Long Island Railroad will operate electric trains from the new station, and a great commuting service will be built up at this point of passengers to and from the many manufacturing plants in Long Island City, and also of passengers to and from Manhattan via the Steinway tunnel and its connection with the sub¬ way system in Manhattan. Startling Rumor About the Ferry. With the near completion of these ar¬ rangements theie has been some public anxiety over the ferry service, whether it is to be continued in full effect after Ihe tunnels are in full service; and ru¬ mors have even been circulated that the service, recently curtailed, is to be dis¬ continued altogether eventually. The train service out of Long Island City has also been shortened to such a degree as to menace the stability of real estate that depends on good communication. At the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens, the transit committee was directed to take up with the ofificials of the Long Island Railroad and the Public Service Commission the matter of better train service out of the Long Island City sta¬ tion. With the inauguration of the win¬ ter schedule of the Long Island Rail¬ road the last train had been leaving Long Island City for Flushing at 7:17 and for Jamaica at 8:02, creating a great hardship for the traveling public of Long Island City. Messrs. John Adikes, chairman of the Transit Committee, and George J. Ryan, representing the chamber, held a confer¬ ence with the railroad officials, and as a result, on November 6 a revised schedule went into effect on the railroad, giving additional steam trains from the Long Island City station at 8:18 p, m,, 9:12 p.m., 10:19 p.m., H :36 p.m., which make connections at Winfield and Wood- side stations with the electric trains from the Pennsylvania station for not only Flushing, Bayside, College Point, White¬ stone and other points on the North Shore, but to Jamaica, Far Rockaway, Hempstead and other points on Long Island. The influence of the remarkable in¬ dustrial development now going on in the Long Island City section of the Borough of Queens has caused a great demand for homes in the outlying sections for the executives of the diflferent manufac- VIEW OF JACKSON AVENUE FROM THE VIADUCT.