| Show S AND or OF NEW YORK the reil 1 estate own ers assoria ion id in estimating tho the number of houses that naw corli 14 island will contain state that there ther a are now within the city limits houses already occupied more than cufr sufficient ichen t to fill every vacant lot below fiftieth street above this ibis from 1 to fifty street there are lots 0 s on each street making a lilal of if lots from froin fifty jamili street to on one a hundred and tenth treet both sides of the central park there are building lots above this street and as far up as Kings kingsbridge bridge it is is estimated that there are lots making an estimated estimate d total of building lots s street reet and Kings bridie not bot including central park of in this estimate no allowance hash has been madeford made for manhattan alamil ia 1 tta hamilton aril nn 1 l mt morris dorng S squares ares A mastbe baade ia a tor 0 churchea chier clies public schools lumberry ard avi aiu ic squares mar turin tuang lp ahlai would requite require abent lots lat thlu thus making anakin the total or of lots for del dew bellings lings llinas about this of population at the present time by th mhd association is ia 1 ilia I he population of new york has doubled double d 1 w within the last 15 years con cedi ng tho the sime rate of increase for the future and allowing 10 persons lp IQ a jot ot 7 would be more nearly correct it bould vo uld require about 12 years to fill the island to its utmost almost capacity but supposing the present population to be a and n d allowing ing 10 lier persons sons to a lot and estimating in the rate of increase as above tide the island would be filled in in fifteen years with a population of but allowing 7 persons to a lot the difference would be it will thus talie take from 12 to 15 years ears to fill up tile the city with dwellings i lings even if they arc built as fast faa as required the are however that the large majority of the increase increase calculated upon vitt ill go toward swelling the population of our suburban cities it may lie bg thought that the average of 7 or even 10 persons to a family is is too small but it must be I 1 remembered le that the class 0 of f farni families lies which live t in ih this part of the 6 city ity will ill fcc occupy u y houses by bi ves in 1850 entire city of new york averaged aie raged teen persons person s io to each about five fh e and half persons to i a farn family tribune |
