A home geography of New York city . The Katzen Map of New Yokk56 TK AN SrOKT ATION 57. Old Hoppeu Housk, 2d Avenue and83d Street As the population increased and people moved still farther nort-li,it became tiresome to the people of Manhattan to travel these lon^distances in horse cars. Itwas then that many NewYork business men wentto live in small towns inNew Jersey and Long Is-land. These j)laces couldbe reached from the busi-ness center in a shortertime by cars and city still contin-ued to grow northward,and so many people living in Manhattan and The Bronx went southto business i
A home geography of New York city . The Katzen Map of New Yokk56 TK AN SrOKT ATION 57. Old Hoppeu Housk, 2d Avenue and83d Street As the population increased and people moved still farther nort-li,it became tiresome to the people of Manhattan to travel these lon^distances in horse cars. Itwas then that many NewYork business men wentto live in small towns inNew Jersey and Long Is-land. These j)laces couldbe reached from the busi-ness center in a shortertime by cars and city still contin-ued to grow northward,and so many people living in Manhattan and The Bronx went southto business in the morning and again north to their homes in the evening that the carswere always over-crowded. Now the sky-scraper began tomake its appearanceand replaced smallerbuildinors in thelower section of thecity. The new build-ings contained manyrooms and accom-modated many more workers. This increased the number of workers
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