. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . includes the whole of Manhat-tan Island, and various of the smaller islands, in the East River and in theBay. Its northern limit is Yonkers, and on the remaining three sides it isbounded by water—the East and the Hudson Rivers; and on the south thegrand New York Bay, to which is to a great extent probably due its greatand rapid growth. The lower portion of the city is very densely populated, and the whole ofthe island, from the Battery up to High Bridge—a distance of nearly fift
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . includes the whole of Manhat-tan Island, and various of the smaller islands, in the East River and in theBay. Its northern limit is Yonkers, and on the remaining three sides it isbounded by water—the East and the Hudson Rivers; and on the south thegrand New York Bay, to which is to a great extent probably due its greatand rapid growth. The lower portion of the city is very densely populated, and the whole ofthe island, from the Battery up to High Bridge—a distance of nearly fifteen OIR F 1 lv K .M I. N. ,njl,.s—is well covered with habitat ions. Huilding operations are being carriedon to a very considerable extent, and especially in that portion of the cityabove Fifty-ninth Street. Comparing its population and extent of dwellings with the greatest Metro-polis of the world—London—it will be found that in the port ion of t lie citysouth of Fortieth Street it is more thickly populated. Thus, taking the histcensus in 1SS0, we find that in New York there was a population of eight. DK. S. W. WEBB. SIR. II. SIcK. TW0MBLY. .NO. 6S0 5TH AYENXE. NO. 684 5TH AVENUE. hundred and thirteen thousand and seventy-six persons, and seventy-threethousand six hundred and eighty-four dwellings, in the district hounded byFortieth Street and the East and Hudson Rivers, or persons on theaveiage to each building. Taking London as being comprised within the district measuring one lorsc OUR hundred and twenty-two square miles, that is, excluding- the more suhurhandistricts, we have a population of three million eighl hundred and fourteenthousand live hundred and seventy-four persons, and five hundred and 1 w ent v-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-four houses, or per dwelling,against in this city. Of course, the American style of living- to a great extent in tlats and,apartment houses, gives rise to these figures, but the bearing they h
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