The definitive reference work on the demographic history of our nation's largest city. Two major elements--the text and the tables--provide a broad perspective of population development, viewing the statistical dimensions of three centuries of change from earliest settlement to 1970.
New York City has not only grown in size for three hundred years, but each phase of its history has brought new elements into its citizenry. Sociologically, New York has presented a pattern of invasion and succession on a mass scale. Basic source materials, selected from census reports, vital records, surveys, and contemporary observations, are analyzed largely in terms of the ethnic communities that have contributed to the city's