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New York City is also home to the highest number of immigrants from the Caribbean. [8] Since the earlier part of the 19th century, there has been a large presence of African Americans in New York City. [9] Early Black communities were created after the state's final abolition of slavery in 1827. [10]
African Americans in New York; Total population; 3.002 million [1] (2020): Regions with significant populations; In major New York cities such as New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and Rochester and also smaller cities and towns in or near the Hudson Valley between New York City and Albany such as Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Monticello [2]
Today, there is a noticeable shift in Black Americans moving from Northern metro areas to the Southern cities. Take Chicago, for example, which has historically been an economic capital for Black ...
Multigenerational African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos and African Immigrants make up 25.1% of New York City's population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2,086,566 black people residing in New York City.
The first group of Puerto Ricans immigrated to New York City in the mid-19th century when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony and its people Spanish subjects and as such they were immigrants. The following wave of Puerto Ricans to move to New York City did so after the Spanish–American War in 1898. [180]
The large Black migration to New York City helped cause the Harlem Renaissance, a rich cultural period for the African Americans living in New York (especially in Harlem neighborhood, the namesake) between the end of World War I and the Great Depression. New York's Mixed population increased by almost twenty times between 1940 and 2010, while ...
More people left urban areas between 2020-2021, particularly in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. (Chart: National Bureau of Economic Research) 'Sunbelt and the Mountain West continued ...
In the last 25 years, for example, the population of Prince George's County, Maryland, where suburban housing was developed near Washington, DC, became majority African American. By 2006 it was the wealthiest majority-black county in the nation. [10] Similar to White Americans, African Americans continue to move to more distant areas.