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LippiNcoTrs Magazine. JULY, 188 i. SOME SUBURBS OF NEW YORK. I.— NEW JERSEY. 8IP RESIDENCE, JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY. THE sub- urbs of an island city are apt to be sharply distinguished in character from those of a city oq the mainland. The long ridge of rock that constitutes Manhattan cannot merge by imperceptible transitions into the sur- rounding expanse, like London or Phila- delphia, nor does the topography allow of a periphery of dependencies like those which are known to the facile humorists as the •• sub-hubs" of Boston. The water oiFered, long before the bridge, a less impassable barrier to the in- stinct of expan- sionthanthe land ; and the forces of " moderate means" seem still to find across the rivers their line of least resistance. Harlem, to be sure, is populous, and the tide of progress has spread out over its expanse of alluvium and "fill- ing," to results no doubt commodious, but as far as possible from being pictu- resque. In truth, there is very little that is suburban in the character of Harlem, which simply repeats the mo- notony of the lower island in its most monotonous parts. From below Harlem even to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, on the west side of the Vol. VI it. N.S.— 1 Copyright, 1884, by J. B. Lippincott k Co.