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RAILWAY FRANCHISES OF NEW YORK CITY
BY
HARRY JAMES CARMAN, A. M. Instructor in History, Columbia University
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN THE
FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
1. The New York and Harlem Railroad Grants
2. The Grants to the Hudson River Railroad Company
CHAPTER II
HISTORY OF RAILWAYS INCorporated Between 1850 and 1860
1. The Sixth and Eighth Avenue Railroad Companies.
2. The Second Avenue Railroad Company
3. The Third Avenue Railway Company.
4. The Ninth Avenue Railroad Company
CHAPTER III
The Fight For Broadway, 1852 to 1884
CHAPTER IV
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II
17
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39
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59
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HISTORY OF RAILWAYS INCORPorated Between 1860 and 1875
1. The Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company. 108
2. The Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Company.
112
3. The Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company. 114
4. The Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company.
5. The Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad Company 121
6. The Twenty-third Street Railway Company
7. The Avenue C Railroad Company.
119
130
132
8. The Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad Com-
pany.
133
9. The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Railroad Company. 135
10. The Central Crosstown Railroad Company of New York.
11. The Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad Company
12. The South Ferry Railway Company.