Download or read book Queens Borough (Classic Reprint) written by Chamber Of Commerce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Queens Borough Industrially, Queens ranked 4th among the cities and Boroughs of New York State and 17th among the principal cities of the United States as to the value of its manufactured products, their value in 1909 being $151, and increased 314 per cent. Within ten years. In 1911, there were new buildings constructed within the Bor ough at an estimated cost of an increase of 46 per cent. Over the year 1910. The records of the Board of Health show that Queens is healthy, for the death rate in Queens in 1911 was not only the lowest of any Borough in New York City, but of any of the first twenty cities in size in the United States. Its banking facilities are the best and its many banks have ample capital. Its schools and churches are unexcelled. Its transpor tation facilities connecting with Manhattan and Brooklyn are excellent and millions of dollars are now being expended in improving these facilities. It has over 196 miles of natural water front and 20 miles of docks on the East River, Long Island Sound, Jamaica Bay, and Atlantic Ocean. The tonnage on Newtown Creek for 1910 was greater than the combined ton nage of all the canals of the State of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.