ABSTRACT
The intensely developed metropolitan region which surrounds the city of New York is the western terminus of a set of sea and air links connected to the major port cities of the world, particularly in Western Europe and Puerto Rico. Most of the passengers, goods, and information which move across that network make use of the modem transportation and communication facilities which are concentrated in the New York Metropolitan Region (NYMR). Looking from the Port of New York westward towards the continent, transportation channels of all kindspipe-lines, power lines, highways, railroads and waterways-converge from inland upon that busy location. Goods shipped by firms as distant as Western Ontario often utilise the region for marine trans-shipment despite the intent of such projects as the St Lawrence Seaway which made Toronto an oceanic seaport, and thus a potential competitor.
