The New York and Harlem Railroad was incorporated in 1831, to link New York City with Harlem. The railroad started at a depot at East 23rd Street and continued on 4th Avenue to Harlem. It was extended 127 miles north to a railroad junction in Columbia County at Chatham, New York by 1851.
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