Excerpt from New York City and the Wanamaker Store New York, with its population of nearly six million residents within the city limits, with almost an equal number of people residing within two hours' ride of the City Hall, and with considerably over a quarter of a million out-of-town visitors daily registered at its hotels - is a city of big accomplishments and big problems. As will be' shown later, New York City is not only the largest organized municipality in the world, but it now has more people than London residing ...
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Excerpt from New York City and the Wanamaker Store New York, with its population of nearly six million residents within the city limits, with almost an equal number of people residing within two hours' ride of the City Hall, and with considerably over a quarter of a million out-of-town visitors daily registered at its hotels - is a city of big accomplishments and big problems. As will be' shown later, New York City is not only the largest organized municipality in the world, but it now has more people than London residing within the Metropolitan district. In New York are found the greatest buildings, bridges, transit systems, educational, police, fire and health departments; the greatest libraries, public and semi-public hospitals and charitable institu tions, and system of water supply; the greatest foreign population; the greatest business and manufacturing enterprises; and the greatest foreign commerce coming into the finest harbor in the world; and the greatest problems. It is a great magnet which attracts the best men and women of the day - the men and women who make history and accomplish things worth while. The very environment spells accomplishment.of New York far outranks the administrative City and County of London. By administrative city is meant the territory within the city limits, which is governed by one municipality. In New York, the administrative city includes the territory within the five boroughs of which the Mayor is the executive. Administrative London includes the corporation of the City of London, and the twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs within the County of London, which comes under the jurisdiction of the London County Council. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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