Chief Engineer applications for use, occupation, and repair of wharfs from 1934 to 1937
Description
The Department of Docks, established in 1870, had exclusive control of all the wharf property owned by the City and the regulation of privately-owned wharf property. The name of the agency has changed several times through the years: Department of Docks and Ferries in 1898, Department of Docks in 1919, Department of Marine and Aviation in 1942, Department of Ports and Terminal in 1968, Department of Ports, International Trade and Commerce in 1986, and Department of Ports and Trade in 1990. This accession, arranged by geographic location, consists of memos, correspondence, applications, permits, indexes, and plans. The records document requests received and reviewed to modify, repair, or build waterfront structures associated with wharf properties by the firms occupying them. A few files have individual indexes that list documentation in the file and cross filing elsewhere in city records. Wharfs are in all five boroughs. The records in this accession appear to be related to material in accession ACC-1997-034.
Extent
40 cubic feet
Dates
1934-1937
Record Groups
External Documents
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