Public Parks. Bowling Green, foot of Broadway........ Battery, fronting the harbor, foot of Broadway. Estimated Value. $135,000 3,000,000 Castle Garden..... 100,000 Park, bounded by Broadway, Chatham, and Chambers streets, 3,000,000 Buildings in the Park...... 600,000 Duane park... 15,000 Park at Cross, Anthony, and Little Water streets. 15,000 Washington square, bounded by Waverley place and Fourth, Macdougal and Wooster streets.... 816,000 Abingdon square, bounded by Hudson street, Eighth avenue, and West Twelfth street... . . .. 12,000 Triangular park, Fourth, Christopher, and Grove streets.. 15,000 5,111,526 Union park, bounded by Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets..... 514,000 Tompkins square, bounded by avenues A and B, and Seventh and Tenth streets... 337,000 Stuyvesant square.. 196,000 Madison square, bounded by Fourth and Fifth avenues, and Triangular park, bounded by Fifth avenue, Broadway, and Bulkheads, Wharves, and Piers belonging to the Corporation of the City 51, 52, 53 Christopher, Amos, and Charles streets.. 85,000 122, 23 Fulton street and Beekman street.... 29, 30, 31, 32 Roosevelt street and James slip................ 50,000 85,000 100,000 70,000 120,000 MARKETS. Real Estate occupied for Market Purposes. BOUNDED BY. Centre Clinton.. Grand, Centre, Broome, and Baxter streets... Catharine... Cherry and South streets. Essex.. Fulton... Ludlow, Grand, and Essex streets. Total.. EST'D VALUE. Real Estate used by the Croton Aqueduct Department. $100,000 75,000 60,000 95,000 210,000 30,000 6.000 10,000 75,000 50,000 18.000 385,000 200,000 $1,314,000 Croton Aqueduct..... .$15,000,000 Distributing Reservoir and Reservoir square, 40th and 42d streets, 5th and 6th avenues... 300,000 Receiving Reservoir, 79th and 86th streets, 6th and 7th ave Estimated Value of the Real Estate belonging to the Corporation of the City of New York. 1862. Uncommuted quit-rents, reserved on property when sold, and Real estate in Brooklyn, owned by the city of New York... Bulkheads, wharves, and piers belonging to the Corporation, 3,400,000 Wharfage of the Ports of New York and Brooklyn. 1. The rates of wharfage of the cities of New York and Brooklyn are established by the law of the State of New York, passed 10th of April, 1860. (Chap. 254.) UNDER TWO HUNDRED TONS. 2. For all vessels of two hundred tons or under, except lighters and canal boats or barges, one cent per ton for every day or part of a day's wharfage. OVER TWO HUNDRED TONS. 3. For all vessels over two hundred tons, one cent per ton for the first two hundred tons, and then one-fourth of one cent for every additional ton burden. HALF WHARFAGE. 4. Every vessel made fast to another vessel lying at any pier, wharf, or bulkhead-and for every vessel lying at anchor within any slip or basin, one-half of the above rates. LIGHTERS. 5. Lighters under fifty tons, and exclusively for lighterage, twenty-five cents per day for an inside and fifteen cents per day for an outside berth, and no other charge whatever. (See Act April 13, 1852, Chap. 266.) CANAL BOATS OR BARGES. 7. Canal boats or barges under fifty tons are excepted by the sixth section of the Act of 1860, and must pay fifty cents per day under the one hundred and twelfth section of the Revised Laws of 1813. DOCKAGE. 8. The Wharfinger may charge five cents per ton on all goods remaining on his pier or bulkhead for every day after the expiration of fortyeight hours after landing thereof, and the same shall be a lien thereon, except merchandise or other property to be transported by canal boats through the canals of this State, and also excepting goods landed for storage on bulkheads by the owner of warehouse fronting said bulkhead, in which case the said goods may remain without paying dockage for eight days. |