The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-05

New York City from 1924 to 1925 was $1,584, ,00O,000 which is greater than the entire assessed valuation of St. Louis' Cleveland or Boston.
 The Equitable building, with an as- sessment of $50 0,000, ,000 Is the most valu- able building in New York. This Is more than the entire assessed valuation of Amsterdam, N. Y., Davenport, Ioka, or Evanston, Indiana.
 The highest assessment for depart ment store in New York Is $13,96O.OO0; for an apartment house. $5,300,0OO and for theatre, 4,100,000.
 Taxes will be levied on 44,333 new buildings in New York City this year.
 The property exempt from taxation un- der the law is worth $S33 3.OOO, 900, accord ing to the tax commission; 497,23 build- ings are exempt.
 The peak prices for land in New York City if $304 per square foot, just paid for A plot about four miles from the heart of the financial center. This equals $2.11 per square inch, or S6OS,Ooo for a 2O-foot lot such as man buys In the suburbs to build house, or of $13,- 192,240 per acre.
 New York is the oldest incorporated city in the United States. The highest land elevation in the city is a point on staten Island, 40 feet above sea level. This is the highest point on the Atlantic seacoast from Maine to Florida.
 The tallest building in the city and in the world, is the Woolworth building, which is 57 stories high, and rises 792 feet above the street.
 The New York Telephone company re- ports more than 1,175,000 telephones In use in the city in 1923 and 129 central offices, compared with 1,071 $50 tele- phones and IA central offices in 1922.
 Telephones in use in the city and its committing area total about 1,6O0,ooO and central offices about 800.
 These telephones make upward of G. 5OO0O0 calls every day.
 The transit commission fig \'s that approximately 350,000 commuters come into New York every business day ana approximately ,O00 visitors.
 The Il trunk line railroads which en- ter or approach New York carried 234,- S67491 persons into or out of the city during 1923 With ferry and Hudson tube passengers added, ekminting dupli- cation, passengers entering and leaving New York during 1923 totalled 325,920,- 315.
 According to the shipping boards Du- reau of research, New York leads all American ports in the overseas move ment, handling 20s,359 incoming and outgoing passengers during the first SIX months of 1923, as compared with 249,- 0O2 for the United States asa whole.
 The port of New York has total water front, measured around pierheads and along the entire shoreline, of 921 miles, equal to the distance between New York and Atlanta, Ga.
 Approximately one-half of the foreign commerce of the United States Is han dled through the DO of New York. In 1923 imports valued at $3,364, ,709,6S2 and ho ad through this port, according to custom house reports, combined increase of $500, ,O0O0 ,0OO over the previous year.
 New York has 400 commercial piers and about 50 miles of commercial wharfage. Over 200 ocean steamship lines operate from port.
 New York Is the amusement center of the world In 1923 the department of licenses reports there were 192 licensed theatres and 555 licensed motion picture houses in the city, with total seating ca pacity of 727,142 and an average daily attendance of approximately 6SO,000. In 1922 contracts were awarded for 6.672 new buildings in the city to cost $529 ,104 .000; in 1923, the figure were g, 9,214 and $63s, ,Ss6, ,000.
 New York is the largest printing cen ter in the country, producing as much as it's four closest rivals combined. These are Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis. In 1922 the employees in this industry in New York numbered 73,000, the annual wage payment was $72,O00,000 and the total value of the products $400, ,000, 900.
 New York is the countrys most im- portant center for the manufacture of tobacco pipes. And it produces one- fourth of the country's chewing gum.
 Between 80 and s5 per cent of Amer 1ca's fine jewelry is manufactured on Manhattan and more fine furniture is produced in New York City than in all the rest of the country.
 Registration in the city's public schools in September, 1924, was 973, ,41O, and the annual cost of maintaining the schools is approximately $95, ,57O ,82O- over twice the total of any other Amer ican city.
 New York maintains a police force of il $40, and has 3,997 regular and 606 volunteer firemen enrolled in the city's fire department.
 Verify, New York is city of which not only New Workers but all Americans 1