The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-27
NEW roRK,s PUPUL.4TION.
RI PeopIed as Densely rs Paris it Would
Have T., -On,O00 Inhabitants.
fIrrop, tha New York r ,,lrualA

Have H. 90, 900 Inhabitants.
Trom the New York urnal)
New York now has an area Of about
sixty square miles and a population Of
/ 900, 900. But should the greater New
York scheme be baked for a time,
there is still room enough with the
present urban area for a vastly in
creased population.
The present area Is easily and natu-
rally divided into three nearly equal
parts, the island of Manhattan, the old
annexed district and the new annexed
district The first Of these now has
population Of rather more than 1885,
900; the second has probably over $780,
| 600. while the third has population Of
about 10000
| The island itself, for about one third
| Of its area, IS by no means densely peo-
| pied as compared with the region below
Forty-second street, and it could, If
need be, afford homes for nearly half
million more inhabitants without
greatly extending the tenement house
system. The old annexed district could
| easily make room for five hundred
| thousand more inhabitants without in
| convenience to either it's present popu-
| lation or the new corners, and Is capa-
| Bile of accommodating many more
Thus upon two thirds of the present ur-
ban area another million inhabitants
| could be housed, 50 that without even
destroying the suburban character of
the newly annexed district the popula-
ton of the city could be increased to
nearly three million.
What some students, of the city's
growth are prophesyilfg, however, is
that large part of the area of Man
haitian Island now occupied by dwell
| ings, hotels, apartment houses and ten
ements will, in the not very distant flu
ture, be needed exclusively for business
purposes. In that case it is possible
that the normal population of the is
land in other than business hours may
be scarcely more than five hundred
| thousand, just as the old downtown
| wards that once were densely peopled
now have only a few thousand inhabi-
| tants at night.
Such a change would force those New
Workers that wish to remain actual res
idents of the city to seek homes in the
two annexed districts The old an
nexed districts could for much of it's
/ IN, To-
the most congested parts of the island
now have, and the entire area could
certainly afford homes to another mill
lion and a. half of people.
The new annexed district is larger in
area than either the island or the old
annexed district, but it includes about
two thousand acres of park land that IS
inviolable, a considerable water area
and some marsh that will be but slowly
made ready for occupancy. 1t could,
however, within the next half century.
if need be, accommodate a population of
a million and a quarter, so that should
the demands of business restrict the
population of Manhattan Island to five
hundred thousand. the city would still
have abundant room for more than g.
500,0 inhabitants.
Some of the greatest cities of the old
world are smaller in area than New
York. London is almost the only great
European city having a corresponding
| ly large area.
Paris has 100000 inhabitants on
rather less than twenty thousand acres,
or about thirty-one and one-quarter
square miles, which is only a little more
than half the present area of New
York If this city were as densely pop
ulated, her population would be eonsid-
erably above $4,000 600.