Jacob Riiswas an experienced journalist who broke new ground by doing something innovative: He took a camera into some of the worst slums of New York City in the 1890s. His classic bookHow the Other Half Livesshocked many Americans when they saw how the poor, many of them recently arrived...
In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name:New YorkCity. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany; indentured servants; and African slaves...
TheÂGreat September Gale of 1815Â (the term hurricane was not yet common in the American vernacular), which hit New York City directly as a Category 3 hurricane, caused extensive damage and created an inlet that separated the Long Island resort towns of the Rockaways and Long Beach into ...
The number, size, and fame of the Broadway theaters grew as New York City grew. In the 1890s the brilliantly lighted street became known as “the Great White Way”. Beyond these theaters the city offers free performances of the plays of William Shakespeare in Central Park. Operas and ...
New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city.[19] New York is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both ...
The floor area ratio gradient: New York City, 1890–2009 . Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 : 110 – 119 .Jason Barr, Jeffrey P. Cohen. 2014. "The floor area ratio gradient: New York City, 1890-2009." Regional Science and Urban Economies no. 48:110-119....
We examine how the FAR varies across the five boroughs of New York City. In particular, we focus on the FAR gradient over the 20th century. First we find that the gradient became steeper in the early part of the 20th century, but then flattened in the 1930s, and has remained relatively...
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New York's non-white population was 36,620 in 1890.[110] New York City was a prime destination in the early twentieth century for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City was home to the largest urban African diaspora in North ...
The 1890 New York City Police Census February 3, 2025byEditorial StaffLeave a Comment Following the federal census of 1890, officials of the newly consolidatedNew York Citythought federal enumerators had failed to give a true account of city residents. As a result, between September 19th and Oct...