News Advocate | 1931-06-11 | Page 3 | New York's Infancy

new Y lt ks infancy an article published in the chris tian ilan advocate Adio cate says at the beginning of the nineteenth century the metropolis of the united states occupied only the loner lover end of manhattan island what Is now up town being still made up of spacious farms and country estate estat eq including the little village of harlem the actual measurements of the city proper are given as three miles in length from the battery to fourteenth street one and find a h hilt hilf miles in width and eight miles in cir cumfer ence