Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — New York City’s Wealth. [ARTICLE]

New York City’s Wealth.

Tho wealth of Now York City, as a corporation, amounts to the enormous sum of $558,000,000. It is thus tilsdistributed: Central Park, $200,000,00|); fifty other parks, $50,000,000; Crotoh aqueduct, $200,000,000; publio markets, $20,000,000; city lots not in publio use, $8,000,000; docks and piers, $30,000,000; police Stations and laud, $5,000,010; schools, $15,000,000; lire department, $5,000,000; courts, prisons, and islands, $20,000,000; water lots, $3,000,000; armorios, $3,000,000. Since 1871 tho city’s property has more than doubled In valuation, being then $277,000,000.