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This buffer area with the native Lenape is sometimes considered the first free African settlement in North America, although the landowners had half-free status. Its name comes from descriptions in 1640s land conveyances of white-owned properties as bordering the hereditament or freehold "of the Blacks". [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 2006 New York City's Dominican population decreased for the first time since the 1980s, dropping by 1.3% from 609,885 in 2006 to 602,093 in 2007. Dominicans are the city's fifth-largest ancestry group (behind Irish, Italian, German and Puerto Rican) and, in 2009, it was estimated that they compromised 24.9% of New York City's Latino population.
The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York (1989) the most detailed standard scholarly biography online; Lankevich, George J. New York City: A Short History (2002)
It is believed that there are more than 15,000 skeletal remains of colonial New York's free and enslaved blacks. It is the country's largest and earliest burial ground for African-Americans. [41] This discovery demonstrated the large-scale importance of slavery and African Americans to New York and national history and economy.
A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York University settled a lawsuit by Jewish students who accused the school of failing to stop antisemitism on campus. A scheduled Tuesday hearing in Manhattan federal ...
[4] [9] [10] Arabs immigrating prior to that decade from modern-day Lebanon were regarded as "Syrians" [9] and were a predominantly Christian population. These early immigrants were variously classified as Turk, Armenian, and/or Arab, [10] [11] until 1899, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service created a Syrian category. [12]
The Yonkers City Council on Tuesday approved settlements totaling $2 million to four former students who alleged they were sexually assaulted or abused by teachers during the 1970s and 1980s.