PLAN OF NEW YORK AND ITS ENVIRONS
 

TERRITORY INCLUDED

THE map on page 7 shows simply the counties and portions of counties in
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut which are under consideration,
except that the study includes all of Long Island.   The county seats, ex¬
cept in the counties of New York City and in Suffolk, Orange, and Dutchess
Counties, where they are outside the limits of the map, are indicated by a star,
and the relative populations of the different counties and parts of counties are
shown by the size of the small circles. The distribution of population between
the present city of New York, New York State outside of the city. New Jersey,
and Connecticut, is shown by the smaller circular diagram. The figures are those
of the Federal Census of 1920.   Several estimates have been made of the prob¬
able population up to the end of the present century, the area being divided for
this purpose into urban, suburban, and rural districts.   The urban district in¬
cludes the present city of New York, Hudson County, and Newark; the suburban
district all of Nassau, Westchester, and Union Counties, the westerly portion of
Fairfield County, Essex County, outside of Newark, and the southerly portions
of Bergen and Passaic Counties; the rural district includes the remainder of the
area.   While the figures for the year 2000 differ somewhat, it is significant that
the several estimates are ahuost identical up to the year 1960, these being, for
the last-named date, approximately 13,000,000 for the urban, 5,000,000 for the
suburban, and 2,000,000 for the rural areas, or a total of 20,000,000.   These
figures, therefore, with any of the estimates for the years after 1960, may safely
be accepted as a reasonable basis for comprehensive planning for the future.