Identifier: problemofgreater00brea (find matches)
Title: The problem of greater New York and its solution
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940 Corthell, E. L. (Elmer Lawrence), 1840-1916 Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Board of New York. Library, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Harbors
Publisher: New York City, Published under the auspices of the Committee on Industrial Advancement of the Brooklyn League by the Search-light Book Corp.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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20.4 Brooklyn 35.7 Queens 4.0 Richmond 2.5 Average for City 24.7 Density of Population Per Acre in Several Selected Wards(1910 Census) Manhattan— Fourth 257.1 Seventh 515.6 Tenth 604.0 Eleventh 696.7 Thirteenth 604.3 The Bronx— Twenty-Third 63.0 Brooklyn— Fifth 162.5 Sixteenth 278.7 Twenty-seventh 189.6 Queens— First 13.3 Richmond— First 8.1 —From the Municipal Year-Book of the City of New York, 1913. (Note 16) 1910 Population of Wards in Brooklyn and Queens, Constitu=ting the Jamaica Bay District (According to U. S. Census) Brooklyn 1910 1900, Increase Twenty-six 177,963 66,086 111,877 Twenty-nine 72.351 27,188 45,163 Thirty-one 30,988 14,609 16,379 Thirty-two 17,419 8,243 9,176 Queens, Four 67,412 30,761 36,651 Five 12,476 7,193 5,283 378,609 154,080 224,529 Increase from 1900-1910 equals 146%. Population estimated in 1914, 599,716, on basis of continuing same rateof growth. As a city, would rank seventh among the cities of the United States. 94 THE STATISTICAL APPENDIX
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THE PROBLEM OF GREATER NEW YORK (^ote 17) Harbor Statistics Number of Miles of Straight Waterfront Measured Along the Shore Line: Port of New York 771 miles New York City 578 New Jersey 193 Number of Miles of Waterfront Measured Around Piers and Shore Line: Port of New York 921 miles New York City 681 New Jersey 240 Number of Miles of Improved Waterfront Measured Along the Shore Line: Port of New York 166 miles New York City 103 New Jersey 63 Number of Miles of Improved Waterfront Measured Around Piers and ShoreLine: New York City 259 miles** Number of Miles of Waterfront in the Port of New York Publicly Owned,Measured Along Shore Line: City of New York 127 miles Number of Miles of Waterfront in the Port of New York Publicly Owned,Measured Around Pier and Shore Line: City of New York 159 miles Number of Miles of Waterfront in the Port of New York Publicly Ownedthat Have Been Improved, Measured Around the Shore Line: City of New York 47 miles Number of Miles of Waterfront in the Port o

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