Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Union Sketch-Book: A Reliable Guide, Exhibiting the History and Business Resources of the Leading Mercantile and Manufacturing Firms of New York
Description or the Gamma - The tract comprises at present 840 acres, including about 142 acres belonging to the Croton Aqua: duct Department; and it contains, besides streets and avenues, about lots (25 x Its cost was of which sum was assessed on adjoining property, leaving 9 to be paid by the city, the money being borrowed on five per cent. Stock, payable in 1898. This is believed to have been the largest sum ever expended in the purchase of land for a public park. The park, as its name implies, lies in the geographical centre of New York Island, being about five miles from the Battery and from King's Bridge, and about three quarters of a mile from the East river and from the North river. It is about two and a half miles long, and half a mile wide, being long and narrow in form, as com pared with other parks Of equal size.
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