The city grew larger and larger. It
stretched up to the Harlem River, leaped over it and went branching out
into the country beyond. Great libraries were built; hospitals for the
sick; prisons for the wrong-doer, markets, churches, public institutions
of every kind. Buildings grew taller and taller until they came to be
twenty and twenty-five stories high. Even then there were so many people
that there were not houses enough to hold them all. So they swarmed over
into the already large city of Brooklyn, on Long Island. And the
ferry-boats being no longer able to carry the vast crowds in comfort, a
great suspension bridge was built over the East River from New York to
Brooklyn. At last the city of New York and the city of Brooklyn had so
much in common, that they, with some of their suburbs, were united into
one great city in the year 1898.
Then the Island of Manhattan became simply the Borough of Manhattan, one
of the five boroughs of Greater New York.
So the story of the Island of Manhattan is ended.
TABLE of EVENTS
Year
1609. Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan
1613. Ship Tiger burned
1614. United New Netherland Company organized
1614. Fort Manhattan built
1621.
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