BARR, JASON; TASSIER, TROY; TRENDAFILOV, ROSSEN - In: The Journal of Economic History 71 (2011) 04, pp. 1060-1077
New York City historiography holds that Manhattan developed two business centers—downtown and midtown—because the bedrock is close to the surface at these locations, with a bedrock “valley” in between. This article is the first effort to measure the effect of depth to bedrock on...