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New York City’s most crowded block highlighted by official figures
Tenement House Commissioner John J. Murphy cited a block stretching from One Hundred Twelfth to One Hundred Thirteenth streets and First to Second Avenue as the city’s most dense. It houses 4,729 people in 49 buildings, with large families and crowded rooms, while comparisons show vast variance in density across districts and cities.
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John J. Murphy
Thirteenth Street
First
Second Avenue
New York
United States
New’ York
New York City
Seales Nimesieg
J. Pierpont Morgan
Madison and Park
York City
Nam Ie Nero
Rivington Street
First Avenue
East Third Street
Avenue B
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-sixth
Sizty Third Streets
Sixth
Park Avenues
Commissioner Murphy
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Patchogue
L.I
Roselle
N. J
Middle West
Harold M. Finley
Missouri
Carnegie Library
Mr. Morgan
Second Avénue