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The Bronx was annexed from Westchester County by New York County (and New York City) in 1874 (west of Bronx River) and 1895 (east of it). Those two parts were established as a separate borough upon the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, but was not legally established as a separate county, Bronx County, until 1914.
Populations before 1898 are for the areas now enclosed in the present boroughs. Since 1914, each of New York City's five boroughs has been coextensive with a county of New York State – unlike most U.S. cities, which lie within a single county or extend partially into another county, constitute a county in themselves, or are completely ...
The Woolworth Building, built in 1913. The modern five boroughs, comprising the city of New York, were united in 1898. In that year, the cities of New York—which then consisted of present-day Manhattan and the Bronx—and Brooklyn were both consolidated with the counties of Queens and Staten Island. [3]
The Civil War and New York City (Syracuse University Press, 1990) Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (Hill and Wang, 2004) excerpt; Scherzer. Kenneth A. The unbounded community: Neighborhood life and social structure in New York City, 1830-1875 (Duke University Press, 1992)
A 1691 law defined New York City to be the entirety of Manhattan, while Manning's Island (now Roosevelt Island), the Barn Islands (now Randalls and Wards Islands), and the Oyster Islands (now Liberty Island, Ellis Island and Black Tom) were New York County. [8] Towns had been established in the rest of the province by 1691, and were ...
A place where black liberty and self-rule were not shunted off to tiny towns located on the least productive land. The people of Eatonville didn't get that alternate history.
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]
The superlative demographics of NYC’s five boroughs have been freshly mapped. A free, interactive online tool managed by the Department of City Planning has been updated with 2020 Census data ...