History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 52
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] low," about a half a mile to the south, and another called "Glenwood," about a mile to the north of it. The New York City and Northern has two stations within the city, one in the northern part, called "North Yonkers," and another in the southern called "South Yonkers." The Harlem Division of the New York Central is easily accessible to all the east side population of the city at its West Mount Vernon station, just beyond the Bronx River. The New York City and Northern railroad owns ground for a spur of about four miles in length, spoken of as to be built from its Cortland station in New York City to Getty Square. This is much need-ed and we suppose cannot be long delayed. If it could be furnished, no doubt this road would com-mand by far the greater part of the travel between Yonkers and New York. At present the company invites Yonkers patronage to its road by furnishing free stage transportation between Getty Square and its South Yonkers station in connection with all its trains. This involves a tax of twenty minutes extra each way upon every person who uses the road. Yet so many submit to this tax through preference for this route that we cannot doubt what would be the result