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  2. Race and ethnicity in New York City - Wikipedia

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    According to the survey, there were 177,643 multiracial Americans residing in New York City. People of black and white ancestry numbered at 37,124, making up 0.4% of the population. People of white and Asian ancestry numbered at 22,242, making up 0.3% of the population.

  3. Demographics of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    New York County, coterminous with the New York City borough of Manhattan, is the most densely populated U.S. county, with a density of 70,825.6/mi 2 (27,267.4/km 2) as of 2013. In 1910, it reached a peak of 101,548/mi 2 (39,222.9/km 2). The county is one of the original counties of New York State.

  4. African Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    New York City is home by a significant margin to the world's largest Black population of any city outside Africa, at over 2.2 million. African immigration is now driving the growth of the Black population in New York City. [5] African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City, home to the largest urban ...

  5. East Village, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    ZIP Codes. 10003, 10009. Area code (s) 212, 332, 646, and 917. The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south. [2]

  6. Demographic history of New York City - Wikipedia

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    Overview. The population of New York City was over 90% Non-Hispanic White until the post-World War II era. [1] Large numbers of Blacks, Hispanics, or Asians began settling in Manhattan in the 1920s and in the rest of NYC after World War II. [1] The slowest area in the city to change its racial makeup was Staten Island, which was the only ...

  7. African Burial Ground National Monument - Wikipedia

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    February 27, 2006. African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway. [4] The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late ...

  8. East New York, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south, and the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks and Van Sinderen Avenue to the ...

  9. East Harlem - Wikipedia

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    10029, 10035. Area code. 212, 332, 646, and 917. East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.