CHAPTER II
 

Congestion of Population in New York City

Since the second decade of the nineteenth century the
growth of the population of New York City has been ex¬
ceedingly rapid. Proportionately it has been much greater
than either that of the state of New York or of the United
States. The rate of increase has been very much greater
during the last century than that of any other great city in
theworld which existed prior to 1800.^ This rapid growth
of the city of New York and the various boroughs that
compose it is shown in Table i.

Table i
Population of New York City at each Census Period
 


 


 


 


 

Boroughs.
 


 


 


 

New York
 


 


 


 


 


 

Year.
 

City.
 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Manhattan.
 

Bronx.
 

Brooklyn.
 

Richmond.
 

Queens.
 

1790
 

49,401
 

33.131
 

1,781
 

4.495
 

3,855
 

6,159
 

1800
 

79,216
 

60,515
 

1.755
 

5.740
 

4,564
 

6,642
 

181C
 

"9.734
 

96.373
 

2,267
 

8.303
 

5.347
 

7,444
 

1820
 

152,056
 

123,706
 

2,782
 

11,187
 

6.135
 

8,246
 

1830
 

242,278
 

202,589
 

3.023
 

20,535
 

7.082
 

9,049
 

1840
 

391."4
 

312,589
 

5.346
 

47.613
 

10,965
 

14,480
 

1850
 

696,115
 

515.547
 

8,032
 

138,882
 

15,061
 

i8,S93
 

1855
 

907.775
 

629,904
 

17.079
 

216,355
 

21,389
 

23,048
 

i860
 

I."74.779
 

813,669
 

23.593
 

279,122
 

25,492
 

32,903
 

1870
 

i,478.i°3
 

942,292
 

37,393
 

419,921
 

33.029
 

45,468
 

1880
 

1,911,698
 

1,164,673
 

51,980
 

599.495
 

38.99'
 

56,559
 

1890
 

2,507,414
 

1,441,216
 

88,908
 

838.547
 

51,693
 

87,050
 

1900
 

3,437,202
 

1,850,093
 

200,507
 

1,166,582
 

67,021
 

152,999
 

1905
 

4,014,304
 

2,112,697
 

271,629
 

1,358.891
 

72,846
 

198,241
 

1910
 

4,766,883
 

2.331.542
 

430,980
 

1,634.351
 

85,969
 

284,041
 

^ Weber, op. cit., p. 450.
 

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