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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
What it did was concentrate density and that arguably helped concentrate some of the human resources, but it was also a constraint in regards to expansion of that density. If the East River somehow was developable land then I think we'd have a slightly less dense Manhattan, but an overall denser city and more populous early city / metropolitan area.
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You are absolutely right. The only current outer borough NYC grew into was the Bronx because the narrow Harlem River was no barrier. What you noted ould be 100% true for Queens. But I don’t know if that applies to Brooklyn whivh, I believe was the nation’s third largest city when Greater New York was created. And with DT Bkyn across the river from lower Manhattan, the immediate area was highly dense
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