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Originally Posted by NY Jew
your wrong about NY the reason NY has more people today is solely because Queens and SI transformed from Farm land to city land. In addition they destroyed the housing stock in great swaths of NY. putting of projects in place. you can't appreciate how ugly those parts of NY look unless you get a panoramic view of the city and see big blobs of red
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Most of the biggest cities still had room to grow in 1950--NY had Staten Island and far Queens, Philadelphia had the Northeast and Roxborough, Detroit had its far western area, Chicago still had undeveloped land all the way around its fringes, and so on. Only Frisco and Boston were stringently boxed in when it came to growth.
To say otherwise is rather provincial.