How Much Land Is Enough? N.Y.C. Ends Buying Spree of the Catskills.
The largest single taxpayer in the Catskills is New York City. To protect its drinking water — 90 percent of which comes from Catskills watersheds — the city spent nearly three decades accumulating 156,350 acres of forest and fields. It’s an area larger than all the land in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan combined….