Description of New Brighton, on Staten Island, Opposite the City of New York. Page: 6
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It is separated from the city of New York by a
distance of only five miles, which will be traversed
throughout the day by two swift and beautiful
steamboats, the New Brighton and the Water
Witch, in a period of twenty minutes, at reduced
rates of ferriage, affording by the passage itself the
means of healthy recreation; and not a day's in-
terruption of the intercourse between Staten Island
and the city of New York has occurred during the
late severe winter.
To men engaged in active business, as well as to
those of leisure, the means will thus be afforded, at
stated intervals, of withdrawing from the labor and
anxiety of commerce to the quiet of their own fa-
milies, unexposed to intrusion. To the mechanic
and artisan, a field for the prosecution of their
avocations will be opened at cheaper rates than in
the dense population of a city which annually sub-
jects them to the banishment of their families by
the visitations of disease.
Elegant buildings, as well as chaste and simple
cottages, hotels, and boarding houses, are already
provided, or in progress of completion, furnishing
to the transient resident the means of temporary
accommodation.
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Lyons, James. Description of New Brighton, on Staten Island, Opposite the City of New York., book, 1835; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth310689/m1/8/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at Arlington Library.