NEW PIERS BUILT ON NORTH RIVER. ....... Pier near Troy street, 110 feet long by 24-42 feet wide, $1,990 54 ........ 6,289 37 Pier at Horatio street, 130 feet long by 40 feet wide, on piles... 5,944 38 Pier at Twenty-sixth street, 300 feet long by 40 feet wide, on piles....... 13,583 09 Pier at Forty-sixth street, 500 feet long by 60 feet wide, on piles 28,631 40 Pier at Fifty-seventh street, 750 feet long by 30 feet wide, with side piers, each 400 feet long by 30 feet wide, or for a distance of 400 feet, 90 feet wide, built entirely on piles.... 34,727 23 Pier at Ninety-sixth street, 250 feet long by 60 feet wide, built entirely on piles...... 14,704 11 PIERS REBUILT AND REPAIRED ON NORTH RIVER. Pier at Laight street, 105 feet long by 60 wide, entirely rebuilt, with two new dumping-boards on it........ Pier near Twelfth street, damaged by ice, repaired and strengthened. 6,222 65 555 67 Piers at Horatio street, damaged by ice, repaired and Pier at Thirtieth street, new piles, fenders, and timber.. and additional piles, and strengthened. ....... 243 28 2,090 54 553 26 1,748 76 678 94 811 04 67 BULKHEADS REBUILT AND REPAIRED ON NORTH RIVER. Bulkhead between Piers Nos. 21 and 22, with two new dumping-boards on it.... Bulkhead south of Pier No. 35, 100 feet long, 35-15 feet wide, on piles, for account of Erie Railroad Company, Bulkheads between Piers Nos. 37 and 38, and 38 and 39, some new backing-pieces, for account of H. P. Farrington...... Bulkhead adjoining Pier foot of Clarkson street, some new planking...... Bulkhead at West Eleventh street, 508 feet on West Eleventh street, and 60 feet on river front, new moving piles and fenders, new backing-pieces and other timber, for account of H. P. Farrington...... Office at Battery, on piles, fitted ready for use........ Grading and filling grounds bounded by Gansevoort and Little West Tweifth sreets, including the whole width of Thirteenth avenue; removing two dumping-boards, erecting storehouse 162 feet by 50 feet, and office 50 by 20 feet, including furniture, and fencing in the entire plot; and also painting buildings and fence..... $1,632 09 1,863 45 197 59 73 73 1,404 59 2,767 17 19,270 27 Total cost of the above work, for labor and material..... $307,349 37 Total number of piers and bulkheads built, rebuilt, and repaired during the past twelve months.... 52 Two offices and one storehouse built, filling in and grading grounds at Gansevoort street and Thirteenth avenue, I think it proper to add, that some portion of the work was performed under very adverse circumstances, in severe winter weather, and that obstructions of various kinds had to be removed, which retarded the work, and added materially to the cost of its execution. Respectfully, JACOB A. WESTERVELT, |