A home geography of New York city . y,Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, England, and Ireland. As a 74 IMxMlGKATlON / 0 rule these immigrants are poor. Many of them have no land at Ellis island, where the government officials writetheir names in record books. If the United States law says thatthey may live in this country, they are allowed to remain here; ifthe law says they cannot live in oui- country, they are sent back. M a n y immigrantswho land in New Yorkgo to some section ofthe city where theirrelatives, friends, andcountrymen live. Forthis reason sections ofNew York are almos
A home geography of New York city . y,Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, England, and Ireland. As a 74 IMxMlGKATlON / 0 rule these immigrants are poor. Many of them have no land at Ellis island, where the government officials writetheir names in record books. If the United States law says thatthey may live in this country, they are allowed to remain here; ifthe law says they cannot live in oui- country, they are sent back. M a n y immigrantswho land in New Yorkgo to some section ofthe city where theirrelatives, friends, andcountrymen live. Forthis reason sections ofNew York are almostlike foreign cities ; thepeople speak a foreignlanguage, have foreigncustoms, and celebrateforeign holidays. We have Italian sections, Jewish sections,Hungarian sections; a Russian section, a Bohemian section, anArmenian section, a Chinese section, and other foreign sections are usually overcrowded. Do you live in or nearany of these sections ? What do we call that part of the steameroccupied by the poor immigrants?. A Steamship that cahkiks Fkeight andPassengers ackoss the Atlantic CHAPTER XIV STREETS AND AVENUES The growth of Manhattan has been from the southern endupward, while Brooklyn has extended itself east, north, and the first houses were built on Manhattan, New York wasforest covered throughout. The early settlers built their houses wherever they saw fit:there was no plan fol-lowed ; there w^ere trailsand cow paths, but nostreets. Peter Stuyvesantmade the first attempt ata street system. Thesestreets took the generaldirection of the trails, andhence they are so crookedand planless. Stuyvesantlaid out and named about sixteen streets. In 1660 there were abouttwenty-eight streets and three hundred and forty-two houses inNew Amsterdam. On the east side of Manhattan south of Houston street and onthe west side south of 14th street the streets are irregular, crooked,and frequently twisted. North of these streets and in most of thenewer parts of Man
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