The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
BROOKLYN JEWELLERS
CLOSELY HUDDLED
Maximum Of 1900 Persons to
the Acrp-FOur Times rs
Many as in London.

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rapidly approaching In density that of
Manhattan. which leads the world.
Statistics compiled for the Tenement
House Committee of the Brooklyn Blu
reau OF Charities by Herbert 2. Swan
reveal the fact that an individual In
Europe has more living space than n
whole family In Brooklyn.
The report shows that the average
density OF tenements erected In Brook
lyn in 1915. based on data for each
tenement actually completed that year
and counting &C persons TO a family,
was YEA persons an acre. The maxi
mum density was over 1900 an acre.
This refers to liant actually used for
new tenements. excluding streets. Any
tenement house locality would show
lower figures than these because no Sec
lion Ia built up solidly with new tene.
mont houses.
Glasgow IA $50 persons an acre: IN
London. 366 In Paris. 434. and In
Prague. ass. These are the densitles
or he most ~coneested spots In European
cities. The highest locality congestion
In Glasgow. London and Paris is not 80
high as the average congestion on the
land actually used for Brooklyn tene-
'nents erected In 1915.
A population OF approximately $50. 600
was housed In tho new tenenents erected
In Brooklyn from 1912 to 1915. Fer.
sons accommodated In the 1912 tene-
ments were housed at an average den
Sly OF s43 persons an acre. In the
1913 tenements $50 an acre. IN the 1914
'tenements 691 an acre and In the 1915
tenements i2+ IN acre. The average
land congestion during the short space
or these four years Increased I2iy per
cent.
Nowhere IN the world, excep, IN Man.
haitian and The Bronx. r. land utilized
as intensely as In Brooklyn. Congestion
n Manhattan and The Bronx can SIN
be eaid 10 exceed the congestion Of
Brooklyn. That, however. is no. he.
cause people are not housed a. ~ great
densities In Brooklyn as IN either Man
NATHAN or The Bronx. The maximum
dens'ties for each IL about the same
The only difference Ia tina, Brooklyu
houses a larger proportion o. her In
creas'nC tenement population at .he
lower deneities.
Tenements are row being erected In
practically all parts of Brooklyn. Flat
bush and Park slope are being develophd
with 'enements of the same density az
Ions Island city. Brownsville and East
q YORK OF The saine density ~ uar.
lem. South Btooklyn as Washington
Heights. Blshwick as Inwnod. Green
point az The Bronx and WILLIAMSBURG
as the most rongested districts % the
lower East side OF Manhattan.
People living In the eight. nine. zen
and twelve story apartments Of Manhat-
tan are not housed any more denselv
than the people living in the four s,o,,
,enements OF Brooklyn. In fac, one
fourth Of the residents o. the tall fire.
PROOF elevator apartments 90 Manhattan
are not housed any more ~conpactly
than the inhabitants OF the three story
six family m In the outskirts u.
Brooklyn.
In Manhattan ,he six story tenement
mas a higher range % dens'ties tina the
most populated skyscraper apartment on
either West Enc avenue. Riverside DrNe
or Broadway. /. Is the mos, conges,ed
house IN Manhattan. and We, T., - ro,
so corgested as the six story tenement
In Brooklyn. In Manhattan only one
third Of the apartments in III. ienemcr's
OF this he.ch have a density exceeding
$50 families a bet acre. In BrouklSu
fve-s!Xths ~ the apartments exceed this
density.
This face - due to the prevalence Of
elevator apartments In Manhattan. The
six story elevator house in Manhattan
has a density varying between 100 ana
1876 families per net acre. a density no
greater than that Of the FOUR story
twenty family house OF East New York.
The SIX story non-elevator house IN Man
haitian has 80 n rule a deNslty equal 10.
and In some instances exceeding, the
density OF the aue house In Williams
burg. the section containing most of the
new six story tenements In Brooklyn.
II no allowance Is made for the stores
on the first floors and the density IS
computed on the actual families inhab.t-
Ing the tenernents OF different heights
the situation IS altered a little stores
being less frequent In tho h!gh freproof
buildings h In the low nor-fireprooi
buildings. the r"snl, apepars more favor.
able TO the ''waltupe."