NEW YORK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 5

NEW YORK

METROPOLITAN AREA WIDENED. POPCLATION~OF 9,500,000. New York, Dec. 8. The creation of a new metropolitan district of New York, including all the territory and population within a radius of approximately forty miles of City Hall, as compared with the old ten-mile radius, has been announced by the Merchants’ Association of New York. The new metropolitan district has roughly a population of 9,500,000 peawns. The methods used to redefine the district have been approved by the United States Census Bureau a$ they were laid down at a conference of commercial, trade and other organisations held recently in Washington at the call of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, according to the announcement 3765 SQUARE MILES. The new metropolitan district of New York covers an area of 3765.5 square miles. It has been redefine 1 on the basis of the economic and social activities centring in New York City, such as commuting, delivery service, telephone service and the relative density of population. The old metropoliton district of New York embraced 1368 square miles and had a population estimated at 8.034,349. including 2,414,301 in territory adjacent to th e limits of New York City. City plan organisations at various times have proposed increasing the metropolitan district and a radius of as much as sixty miles from City Hall has been advocated. On the basis of the new metropolitan a rea the United States Census Bureau will furnish the 1927 census of manufacturing figures and likewise use the district for the purpose of the 1930 census of population.