“That the wealth, the industrial and the social enterprise of the Nation, are rapidly centring in New York City; that here the successful and ambitious American instinctively seeks his home, has never been so evident as in the last twelve months. . . . [T]he constructions that mainly make up this huge total are office and loft buildings, hotels, apartment hotels, and places of public amusement. It is one of the inevitable consequences of the growth of Manhattan that the production of dwelling houses has all but ceased, the island being unable to house its constantly increasing population except by building up in the air.” New York Times, March 9, 1902, p. 6.A Commonplace Blog will be in New York City on business for the rest of the week, and will return in about ten days.
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