Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-05
MOST CROWDED. MEN YORK
Fifty BlOotA Fab With the Population Of
Tovu.
WHAT SUCH GROWING REALLY MEANS
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rahahitAats-An East size Blsok
WITH Less Inhabitants
ts the Acre.

NEW YORK. May 3.-The publication
OF statement attributed to a Brooklyn
policeman the other day to the effect that
while he was making arrest in tene-
ment house in the neighborhood Of Second
avenue and Twelfth street, Brooklyn, he
| found a three-story house in which $50
persons were domicled, stirred up the
tenement house department, the police and
the newspaper men. After a long hunt
the house was found and diigent inquiries
by the tenement house inspectors, the
police and the reporters disclosed that
at the most there were only thirty five
persons living there most Of them Poles
working in a nearby mill No official
action was needed on the ground OF over
congested population and there were no
unusual facts warranting newspaper notice.
The story. however. stirred up consid-
cradle discussion as to crowded tenements
and the most densely populated blocks
to be found in New York 1t started the
investigators.
No two authorities questioned agreed
exactly as to which blocks in New York
had the largest number OF residents; neither
did they agree as to the block which was
most crowded. 1t was no surprise to learn
that no other borough OF the City had
wrested the palm in the matter from Man
haitian.
Census Tells Part Of story.
There seems TO be no record available
as to the tenement which has the largest
population or the tenement which has the
greatest number Of residents to the square
foot. When It comes to city blocks the CEN
sus figures Of 1905 tell something Of the
story, but only a part
The tenement house department has not
laval NT,.
has the health department nor any of the
philanthropic societies which work among
the poor. More or less data concerning
crowded conditions are gathered by these
various bodies, but IL you want to know
which block in Manhattan has the largest
population, you will have to examine the
researches Of Harold NJ. Finley, one Of
Prof. Bailey's boys from Yale, who comes
down here every year and looks over New
forks slums and other things of interest
In recent issue of Federation, a quar- |
terly publication of the Federation Of |
Churches and Christian organizations in |
New York City. there is a compilation by |
Mr.. Finley that seems to settle the cues |
ton. 1t is comparative study OF popula-
tons in New York's most crowded blocks
The figures produced, all based upon SEN
sus reports, supply the exact information
Most POpulOus Blocks.
The block with the largest population in
Manhattan is not on the east side at all.
contrary to the general belief 1t is on the
west side and is bounded by Amsterdam
and West End avenues and Sixty-first and
sixty-second streets. The population of the
block, according to the 1905 census. was
6.lB. 1t contains 5S92 acres, making the
density OF population 1.145 to the acre.
In 1900 the most populous block in the
city was that bounded by Second and Third
streets and Avenues B and C. 1t had
population Of 41o5 In 1905 It had a popula-
ton OF 5,OS6, but It fell to second place on
the list of populous blocks. Its ratio of in
habitants to the acre was 1,1O4
There are three other blocks in the city
which in 1905 had more that 400 residents.
The third on the list is that bounded by
One Hundred and Twelfth and One Hun
dred and Thirteenth streets and First AMI
Second avenues. Little Italy 1t has a
population of ABS and a ratio Of 961 in
habitants TO the acre.
The fourth on the list is the block
bounded by Fifth and Sixth streets and
Avenues c and D. 1t has a population OF
4,190 and a ratio of 9S7 TO the acre. The
fifth Of the blocks having more that 800 4
residents is bounded by Catherine Madi-
son. Market and Henry streets. Its popula-
ton is 4lS7 with a ratio of 945 10 the acre.
Fifty-One in List.
Mr.. Finley has found that altogether
there were in 1906 fifty-one blocks in Man
haitian that had more than 5000 inhabitants
OF these twelve have a density Of popula-
ton of more than LOO to the acre Most
Of these blocks have an area Of from two |
IN foiir acres