It is estimated that more than 20,000 families, aggregating
100,000 persons, have been driven from their homes by the steady
transformation of New York City which is now near completion.
The destruction of homes has not been confined to one locality,
nor has it come as the result of one event. Every large
undertaking has contributed its quota of persons whose homes
literally have been pulled down about their heads.
This transformation is most conspicuous at the approaches to
the new bridges across the East River, in the erection of new
and stupendous railroad terminals, the encroachment of modern
business buildings upon residence property, and the widening of
streets.
It is the law of progress that the old shall be displaced by the new
and better.
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=Progress by Ideals=--See IDEALS AND PROGRESS.
=Progress by Necessity=--See NECESSITY AND PROGRESS.
=Progress by Struggle=--See STRUGGLE.
=Progress, Keeping Pace with=--See MODERNITY.
=Progress, Lack of=--See MOTION WITHOUT PROGRESS.