Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Residence of Wm. B. Baumert, 41 the Cheese Manufacturer FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Residence of Edward J. Mordaunt hence, when its 550acres of meadow landson Flushing Bay havebeen built over withplants of the kind thatmore and more are in-evitably finding theirway to the metropolisof the American con-tinent. College Pointis an integral part ofthis great world-city ofNew York, 7l/2 milesfrom Manhattan, withan unrivalled portion ofNew Yorks limitedw
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Residence of Wm. B. Baumert, 41 the Cheese Manufacturer FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Residence of Edward J. Mordaunt hence, when its 550acres of meadow landson Flushing Bay havebeen built over withplants of the kind thatmore and more are in-evitably finding theirway to the metropolisof the American con-tinent. College Pointis an integral part ofthis great world-city ofNew York, 7l/2 milesfrom Manhattan, withan unrivalled portion ofNew Yorks limitedwater-front, with un-excelled residentialfacilities, equitable la-bor conditions and ample sources of labor supply, freight and passengertransportation now satisfactory and soon to be unsurpassed. Its com-mercial destiny will be achieved shortly and made manifest, simplybecause it cannot be ignored or avoided. Manhattan, Brooklyn, theBronx and the Jersey shore are commercially over-crowded. Practically,only Staten Island—isolated—and College Point-Flushing and one ortwo other Long Island points—accessible—remain to be developed forwater-front manufacturing locations that will size-up to metropolitanand national requi
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