Il NEW YORK E LONG ISLAND BRIDGE NEW YORK CITY. Siamo presenti in questo problema una illustrazione del grande in acciaio ponte a sbalzo dalla quale il Long Island Rail Road Società si aspetta che in corso di causa per eseguire i suoi treni nella città di New York e in tal modo aggiungere al transito facili legami di maggiore di New York. Come i nostri lettori sono dubbio meno consapevoli della New York Central and Hudson River Railroad è il solo una delle linee di collegamento che possiede un terminale su Manhattan Island ed è in grado di terra i suoi passeggeri nel cuore di New York senza la scomodità di un traghetto attraverso sia la Hudson o est
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THE NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND BRIDGE NEW YORK CITY. We present in this issue an illustration of the great steel cantilever bridge by which the Long Island Rail road Company expects in due course to run its trains into New York City and thereby add to the transit facili ties of Greater New York. As our readers are doubt less aware the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad is the only one of the trunk lines that possesses a terminus on Manhattan Island and is able to land its passengers in the heart of New York without the inconvenience of a ferry trip across either the Hudson or the East River. Except the New York and New Haven Railroad which has running privileges over the tracks of the New York Central all the other com panies are compelled to place their termini on the shores of New Jersey or Long Island and subject their patrons to the delays and greater or less discomforts of ferry travel before they reach the metropolis itself. It was only a question of time before the problem of reaching Manhattan Island either by bridge or tunnel should be agitated and at the present time there are three schemes on the New Jersey and three on the Long Island side for making a through rail connection. Two mammoth suspension bridges have been designed to cross the Hudson River one at Fifty-ninth Street and the other at Twenty-third Street and about a mile and a half below Twenty-third Street is the well known Hudson River tunnel which has been constructed for three-quarters of the distance beneath the bed of the river. It is also proposed to make rail connection by a tunnel from the lower end of the city to Brooklyn and by two bridges the East River Bridge from Delancey Street New York to a terminus near Broadway. Brooklyn and the New York and Long Island Bridge which forms the subject of our front page illustration. tracks of the Long Island Railroad Company into New York City which it will enter between Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Streets. A great terminal station will b
