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To: Joe NYC who wrote (370106)	2/6/2008 11:41:53 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

It is hard to believe that Manhattan used to have population of 2.3M in 1910 and it is down to 1.5M. Looking for 2nd sources for that info en.wikipedia.org "Growth and prosperity overflowed into the outer boroughs and the entire region. Manhattan's population, 2.3 million in 1920 (or 53 percent greater than its 1990 population), fell 17 percent by 1927, as prospering New Yorkers continued the exodus that had begun at the start of the century out of the Manhattan slums to the many neighborhoods of promise in Brooklyn and the Bronx. In the metropolitan region, with a population totaling 9 million in 1927, prosperity streamed out of 60,000 factories, 868 piers, 13 separate railroads." city-journal.org "Manhattan’s population peaked in 1910 with 2.3 million people, after which it began a slow decline to 1.4 million in 1980. Since then, the population has again begun to increase, reaching 1,537,195 in 2000." encarta.msn.com The peak gets variously reported as 1910 or 1920, maybe it was in between, or maybe it reached a plateau for that decade. I knew Manhattan's population declined, but I didn't know by that much (or starting that early). Its clearly growing now (you can see the evidence yourself, and the stats also reflect it. I think your idea about how you used to have many more apartments with large families that now have small families, a couple, or just an individual, is spot on. Also the number of apartments is growing now, but may have declined between WWI and 1980. (Slums being torn down, office building going up where apartments used to exist etc.)