Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-01
THICKLY POPULATED
A SPOT IN NEW YORK CITY THsT IS
VERY UEEsELY SETTLED.

Eeihing like u Anywhcre-.No Othct
place on Earin Has 80 Many inliab'
iinnts In onc square niiio-Thcrc Arc
$4,000 People LitiuE Ia Ihis section.
ono square mile OF New York citys
area. Inclusive OF streets aul public
squares. Inns d population of moro than
$4,000. It g. possible TO plot on ia
map an irregular district covering q
territory OF square milo which viii
nave population uf half q million, but
to do that one would have 80 rigging
over tho map. picking out thickly popu
lated blocks. Il Is not possible TO plot
un area with population Of moro ttuG
1Oc, 600 living In compact and contigu
Gus territory. That population Of morv
than 10000 20 a square milo is mo-, g..
cpcdcd anywhere else. It Is tho most
tlhc.ly populated spot on the earth,
The large population is possible be.
cause tho builder lnd rpal estate own.
en- Of New York aro moro modern and
moro inventive than those IN European
cities. Tho dcuscly populated toncmuis
IN New York urruot usually Che property
Of estates. handed down from generation
to generation, like tho property Of the
Astors aud sine DUO OF Westminster
the largest real estate owner Ia London.
No mGn cnu manage q large block If
tenement property so we'll ms several
small ownors can. lie will not got
much revenue from g., and he viii no,
gee that it IL filed with touuuts, mother
will hc improve It 81 promptly
Tho most iMckly populated quarter
Of New Iori. g. owned by hundreds Il
men and many comparatively small e..
tItal The owners. or agents, giyothcir
whole time 20 the management, of prop.
crly, and Whenever thCy can gtt rate
OF Income or . per cent higher they
will tear down ma old bu.l1ns and put
NJ o. modern tenement IN its stead
They cHun1. afford 10 lct their land lie
idle and pay their taxes and assessments
GA It for is prospective profits, us do
tho largo landowners Of Manhattan
island. Many OF the owners have bought
tencments with their savings In thosamo
ueighborhood where they made their
money. The tax rollsfhow thut large
share Of the tenement property Is owned
by men Of foreign names and birth who
came to New York as poor immigrant
and now own tho property where moro
rCccut immigrants live, and where the
owners store u- many OF them a. th0y
can and chnggo as much rent ~ they
catkgct
No known form Of habitation will
hold more people than the lower class
lodging houses ami cheap tunumcuts on
the east side and tho west side between
Ninth and Twelfth avenues. Neither
Chinatown, Ia san Francisco, tho low.
e-t quarters Of IN AHatic city, nor the
Nums Of London or Paris win hold 70
many people TO tho acre, because three
and four story buildings IRE compare.
tvoly raro Ia either place, while a i've
story tenement h seldom known. la
tao poorer quarters Of London the own.
ers spend little money ON improvements
when they are not compelled 10 10y the
health authorities, because amy oApen.
dituro for improvements would have TO
como ont OF their income Mt first. and
they do not want their incomes curtuilrd.
Tho most douaely populated square
mile ia New York does not include Five
Points aud Chinatown. Il might be
made 10 aigzag over to the Tombs, tai;
ins IN Poll nnd Dover streets, tho Mul
berry bend ynd Baxter bay. hut Para
disc park, the Tollhs, the now criminal
court house, and tho numerous inter.
fcctIng streets IA that neighborhood
take up 80 much Of the space that tao
section ia not 80 thigkly populated us
that near Stanton and Riyington streets.
whore Avenue q begins, and down Pitt.
Ridge, Essex, Ludlow and tho other
oast side streets which stop at Houston
street Closo by Houston stree. and
Avenue g is tho most thic.ly settled
block, with rate Of population OF more
than million to the mile.
The most thickly populated square
milo includes tho whole OF tho Eighth
assembly district, all OF the Twelfth ex.
cept tho three election districts along tho
water front, all Of tho Sixth west of
LOWS street, all CT tho Fourth excepi
the five districts along tho East riyor.
aud all Of the rcuth and Fourteenth OK.
cept tho ton election districts between
Second avenue aud tho Bowery and
Third avenue. It inoludes Tompkins
square, which is ar largoas three avenue
blocks and hus no population, tho small
squares ut the intersections Of Canal
street and tho large manufacturers. The
exact boundaries ARE Fourteenth street
Second avenue, Houston broet, tho Bow.
cry, Catharino street, Cherry street.
jackson street, Grand street for a block.
Sixth street Tor short block. aud Ave.
uue d bncl 20 Fourteenth street.
In that district, not counting the
squares and places at tho Intersections
or diagonal roets, arc 22G blnrl,I, most
Of thom small blocks, the whole ayoras.
ing lcss than 800 feet one way hy 900
feet the other way. 81 In the Fourteenth
district - IN the Twelfth, % IN the
Tenth, 90 in the Eighth, 80 Ia the Sixth
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