Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
m Rm Indic script as WP:NOINDICSCRIPT |
||
(22 intermediate revisions by 19 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Cotton Green
| settlement_type = Neighbourhood
| image_skyline = Mumbai 03-2016 58 Cotton Green
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Cotton Green Railway Station
Line 15:
| pushpin_map_alt =
| pushpin_map_caption =
|
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = India
Line 50 ⟶ 46:
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code =
|
| area_code_type =
| area_code = 022
Line 62 ⟶ 58:
'''Cotton Green''' is a suburb of [[Mumbai]], and a noted residential and commercial area east of [[Parel]], in central [[Mumbai]], 8 km north of [[Colaba]]. It is also the name of a [[Cotton Green railway station|railway station]] on the [[Mumbai suburban railway]], which lies along the [[Harbour line]], which is a part of the [[Central Railway (India)|Central Railway]].
There was an earlier Cotton Green in Colaba that is marked in old maps.<ref>{{cite web|title=Map of South Bombay 1893|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/Bombay1893.jpg}}</ref> That location is now part of [[Badhwar Park]]. Cotton was shipped from this location as recently as 1910.<ref>{{cite web|title=Photo of Cotton Green, Colaba.|url=http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/colaba-cotton.html|access-date=1 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033746/http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/colaba-cotton.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Etymology==
The station is named Cotton Green after an Art Deco building of the "Cotton Exchange" and a series of warehouses. The older Cotton Green in Colaba was thus named because it was in a [[village green]] and housed the original cotton exchange.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shepherd|first1=Samuel T|title=Bombay Place Names
One more possibility is as follows. The station is named Cotton Green after an Art Deco building of the "Cotton Exchange" and a series of warehouses. The older Cotton Green in Colaba was thus named because it was in a village green and housed the original cotton exchange. In the 18th
== History ==
[[File:Town Hall Bombay & Cotton Green - before Elphinstone Circle was built. (12488176425).jpg|
The Cotton Exchange Building was built in 1924 and used for trading in Cotton until
==Overview==
The railway station caters to the area called Kalachowki, Ferbandar and Ghodapdeo. Kalachowki is a big residential area consisting of a colony called [[Abhyudaya Nagar]] which has 43 [[MHADA]]-built (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) housing, intended those who worked in the textile mills in the area.
The colony has now turned into prime residential and commercial property, and is no longer owned by MHADA. Because of its proximity to Mumbai's prime central areas such as Dadar (15-minute drive) and Parel, Lower Parel and Worli (20–25 minutes' drive)
|