NEW YORK’S GROWTH
DAILY BREAKING RECORDS. There are 1,000,000 people living on Manhattan Island below Columbus Circle, and 2,000,000 enter this area every day. A commission which lias inquired into tho matter predicts that, in forty years 9,000,000 people will enter the district daily. Vast traffic changes arc recommended. New York City consists of the five boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond. In 1924 .the population of the whole city was 0,015,496, distributed as follows: Manhattan, 2,262,120; Brooklyn, 2,196,333; Bronx, 871,552; Queens, 554,595; Richmond, 130,696. Manhattan is an island, and what is known as the "down town" area constitutes the principal business portion of New York City. Into this area people stream every day, not only from upper Manhattan and the remaining city boroughs, but also from the adjacent parts of New Jersey across the Hudson, and from Westchester County, the home of the “commuters."
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 31 March 1926, Page 13
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