Table 1.

Black neighborhoods in New York, 1880–1940

		Black population	% Black	% of city black total
New York declining black neighborhoods
1 Tenderloin	1880	4,804	14.2	17.5
	1900	9,685	18.6	18.3
	1910	8,050	14.6	8.8
	1920	4,397	10.2	2.9
	1930	142	10.4	0.0
	1940	---	---	---
2 Greenwich Village	1880	4,655	12.5	16.9
	1900	---	---	---
	1910	---	---	---
	1920	---	---	---
	1930	1,254	17.7	0.4
	1940	---	---	---
New York persisting and post-1880 black neighborhoods
3 San Juan Hill	1880	506	9.3	1.8
	1900	8,129	15.4	15.3
	1910	12,435	22.5	13.6
	1920	10,950	21.4	7.3
	1930	10,169	23.1	3.1
	1940	8,048	18.5	1.7
4 Bedford-Stuyvesant	1880	2,267	6.8	8.3
	1900	6,320	10.9	11.9
	1910	9,029	16.5	9.8
	1920	16,249	18.3	10.8
	1930	46,579	21.0	14.1
	1940	84,123	33.2	18.2
5 Harlem	1880	---	---	---
	1900	1,353	13.1	2.6
	1910	19,257	23.1	21.0
	1920	71,674	56.9	47.8
	1930	187,151	63.5	56.6
	1940	275,669	71.2	59.5
6 Jamaica	1880	---	---	---
	1900	2,489	9.9	5.4
	1910	---	---	---
	1920	967	10.3	0.6
	1930	8,649	33.5	2.6
	1940	13,587	38.6	2.9
7 Morrisania	1880	---	---	---
	1900	---	---	---
	1910	---	---	---
	1920	---	---	---
	1930	---	---	---
	1940	12,534	11.3	2.7

Note: Neighborhoods are identified as clusters of census tracts (EDs in 1900)