Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 34 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Part of 1,000 Acres of Meadows Reclaimed for Factory Sites. FACTORIES ON FLUSHING BAY Flushing has the most promising future of any section in GreaterNew York from a commercial standpoint. It is one of the few land-locked harbors in the Greater City. Available for commercial uses areabout 1,000 acres of land surrounding and fronting on Flushing Bay andFlushing River. When it is considered that this great body of water
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 34 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Part of 1,000 Acres of Meadows Reclaimed for Factory Sites. FACTORIES ON FLUSHING BAY Flushing has the most promising future of any section in GreaterNew York from a commercial standpoint. It is one of the few land-locked harbors in the Greater City. Available for commercial uses areabout 1,000 acres of land surrounding and fronting on Flushing Bay andFlushing River. When it is considered that this great body of water iswithin 10 miles of City Hall and about 5 miles over the QueensboroBridge to the heart of Manhattan, that it is supported by the great Penn-sylvania-Long Island-New York connecting railroad system and theTerminal of the new State Barge Canal, one may easily picture a greatcommercial future for the Flushing water front. The bed of Flushing Bay is now being deepened for the DegnonContracting Company, which owns most of the adjoining lands. It isthe Degnon intention to deepen the Bay to give 35 feet of water and todevelop the surrounding lands for factory purposes with wat
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