THE COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT
at great expense. Immediately a new supply was planned at a cost of nearly $200,000,000. Bridges have been built by New York which have cost nearly $100,000,000 and several others have been planned, one to cost $42,000,000. Freight terminals are proposed for New York in Brooklyn to cost perhaps $100,000,000. The passenger terminals of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads cost at least $500,000,000. The improvements to Riverside Drive and the covered freight tracks of the New York Central are to cost something like $50,000,000. In the five years it took to build the new subways the regular expense of New York City was $100,000,000 a year, or $500,000,000 in the five years. In this period other improvements will probably aggregate $100,000,000. In 1915 the Comptroller was quoted officially as saying that New York City during that fiscal year had received more than $500,000,000 and disbursed more than $500,000,000, so that during the five year period the total will be the unthinkable total of $2,500,000,000, or at 5,000,000 population, a per capita
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