. The Street railway journal . conditions of the metropolitan dis-trict about New York City are such as to present passengertransportation problems entirely different from those affect-ing any other city. London, Paris and Berlin, whiledivided by rivers, have had no difficulty in bridging theirwaterways and expanding homogeneously in all the location of New York upon a long narrow island,at whose lower end the activity of its vast financial andcommercial interests has centered, has compelled its growth Montclair form probably the largest and most attractivesuburban residential d
. The Street railway journal . conditions of the metropolitan dis-trict about New York City are such as to present passengertransportation problems entirely different from those affect-ing any other city. London, Paris and Berlin, whiledivided by rivers, have had no difficulty in bridging theirwaterways and expanding homogeneously in all the location of New York upon a long narrow island,at whose lower end the activity of its vast financial andcommercial interests has centered, has compelled its growth Montclair form probably the largest and most attractivesuburban residential district aljout New York. Thesetowns together cover an area of about thirty square miles,and in this area it is possible to ride for miles throughfine streets and broad boulevards lined continuously byrows of beautiful suburban residences. The cities in thisdistrict have, also, their own industries and interests andrequire a considerable amount of short-ride urban trans-portation. The largest within a radius of fifteen miles of. FIG. 1.—INTERIOR OF POWER STATION—JERSEY CITY. toward the north only. In point of accessibility to this busi-ness center the neighboring cities of New Jersey andBrooklyn have always compared favorabl}^ with the upperpart of Manhattan Island, so that at present a very largeproportion of the business of New York City is carried onby residents of these cities, who, of course, require regu-lar and frequent communication with the metropolis. Many of the cities and towns in that portion of NewJensej close to New York City are given up entirely toresidences, while others, owing to their proximity to themetropolis, with its large market and shipping facilities,have become extensive manufacturing centers. Amongthe former are the Oranges, which with Bloomfield and New York are the following, the populations given beingthose of the census of 1890: Population. Newark 181,830 Jersey City 163,003 Paterson 78,347 Hoboken 43,648 Elizabeth 37,724 Orange and So. Orang
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