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The property operated by the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, herein called the carrier, is located in New York and New Jersey. It consists of freight terminal yards and other facilities located adjacent to the port of New York, the necessary yard tracks and sidings and locomotives, and car-transfer floats operated in the port of New York between its own and other carriers' terminals. The owned property consists of 0.951 mile of yard tracks and sidings and other miscellaneous items of property located principally at Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The property used under lease is owned by Havemeyers & Elder, Incorporated, which controls the carrier. It consists of 7.890 miles of yard tracks and sidings at Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, and at Pidgeon Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; 1.129 miles of yard tracks and sidings at Warren Street, Jersey City, N. J.; delivery yards, buildings, float bridges, and wharves at the points just named and at Thirteenth Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; and all of the locomotives, tug boats, and car floats operated.


No. Name Incorporation Succession
1 Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal. Under general laws of New York, Nov. 4, 1915.
2 Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (of 1906). Under general laws of New York, June 22, 1906. Merged June 1, 1916, with 1.
3 East River Terminal Railroad. Under general laws of New York, Nov. 19, 1907. Merged June 1, 1916, with 1.
DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

The road owned by the carrier consists of 0.951 mile of sidings located in Kent Avenue, and in streets adjacent thereto, Brooklyn, N. Y. Of the total mileage, 0.8035 mile mile was constructed by Havemeyers & Elder, Incorporated, during the period 1874 to 1906, and 0.1475 mile was constructed by the East River Terminal Railroad during June, July, and August, 1909.

HISTORY OF CORPORATE FINANCING