The Growth of New York.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 6

The Growth of New York.

The growth of New York into a city as large as London is now will take place in a much shorter period of time than people commonly suppose, if we include Brooklyn in the great metropolitan community. The populatioo of New York " and Brooklyn combined, as the registration for the last election indicated, is somewhere about 2,500,000, two-thirds in New York and onethird in Brooklyn. The rate of increase since 1880 seems to have been extraordinary, but even if the rate between 1870 and 1880, or about one-third in the ten years, is kept up, in twenty years New York will have* a population of hai'd on 5,000,000, ormorethan what is called the Greater London now contains. There is every reason to expect that the rate of increase will not be less than this, though it is now, and probably will con tinue, larger in Brooklyn than in New York. Nowhere in the world is there a better place for a vast population than Long Island affords. Ita natural advantages in this respect are far superior to those of New York, a narrow island, with an extension beyond the Harlem river which includes so large an extent of uneven and rocky country that improvements are difficult and. costly. But the country over which Brooklyn will extend is broad, level and with soil easily worked, so that both public and private improvements may be made at a small cost comparatively. It is, therefore, destined to be more and more the seat of the homes' of that vast majority of the population of every great community who must obtain cheap living. Brooklyn can ex tend for many miles to the eastward without encountering any natural obstacles to its progress, and with a proper system of rapid transit millions of people can , have their homes easy of access to their work, whether it be on Manhattan Island or Long Island. It seems probable, therefore, that while New York in its future development will provide more particularly for the people of wealth or of comfortable incomep, who will be drawn to the great capital of the New World, Brooklyn, in its extension, will furnish tor those who are less fortunate materially an abundance of accommodations that will be much superior to the. tenements into which such people have been crowded on the island of New York.

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