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].
PROGRESS, MODERN