In 1920 Long Island’s undeveloped east held one person per four acres

Evidence

Its westernmost sixth was Brooklyn and Queens, crammed in 1920 with two and a half million people, a population greater than that of all but eight states in the Union, but beyond the eastern border of Queens that marked the end of New York City lay, divided into the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, another 1,373 square miles—878,720 acres—inhabited by less than a quarter of a million people, one person to every four acres, an area four times the size of the whole city and with a population less than one twenty-fifth as large, a prodigal extravagance of precisely that luxury of which New York was rapidly being drained: space. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 639

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Broader Connections

• Large untouched forests still survived in suburban Long Island in the 1930s #corroborates (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 703