This monograph presents certain facts regarding the food manufacturing industries in New York and its environs which have a bearing upon the problem of planning the area. It is one of a series of twelve similar monographs, a complete list of which appears at the end of this pamphlet. It is published in the hope that it will be of interest not merely to professional city planners but to several other groups as well: first, to the food manufacturing industries because the facts regarding trends in the industries should aid in arriving at sound decisions on questions of location; second, to city officials, utility companies, chambers of commerce, real estate men and others interested in the development of various sections of the metropolitan area because of the hints it gives regarding the character of the development for which the area appears to be destined; and third, to economists and to citizens generally because of the light it throws upon the vexed problem of urban land utilization.