Excerpt from New York in a Nutshell, or Visitors' Hand-Book to the City: Illustrated It is a curious fact that New York city, With inhabitants in 1850, had but houses for them to live in and do business. While Philadelphia, with inhabitants, had houses. The number Of buildings erected during the past year is estimated at about and the ratio is on the increase at the pre sent time, while the edifices are much superior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.