Were there more black people in NYC in the 1980s and 1990s then now? (New York: crime rates, neighborhoods)
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I wasn't around in the 80s and I don't remember the 90s because I was so young but NYC seemed different when I see pictures and videos from it. I see Hispanics and Asians but there are obviously more now then in the 80s and 90s but were more black people then because if I see videos and pictures there are always a lot of black people in the pictures in neighborhoods that are mixed or largely Hispanic or Asian. Times Square is mixed with all different kids of people but it seemed like the largest group was black then whites and it's of course different now.
Did blacks increase or decrease from the 1980s and 1990s? What demographic changes have you noticed since those two decades and the 2000s and 2010s?
Somewhat, but the difference is not huge. Populations have moved around a lot, though. Some neighborhoods in outer boroughs that were mostly white in 1980 are now mostly black (e.g., Canarsie, Laurelton), while the black population in Manhattan in particular has fallen considerably.
NYC black population declined. Most North East major cities all saw drops in black population. Large portion of the Black population are moving back post Jim Crow South.
I wasn't around in the 80s and I don't remember the 90s because I was so young but NYC seemed different when I see pictures and videos from it. I see Hispanics and Asians but there are obviously more now then in the 80s and 90s but were more black people then because if I see videos and pictures there are always a lot of black people in the pictures in neighborhoods that are mixed or largely Hispanic or Asian. Times Square is mixed with all different kids of people but it seemed like the largest group was black then whites and it's of course different now.
Did blacks increase or decrease from the 1980s and 1990s? What demographic changes have you noticed since those two decades and the 2000s and 2010s?
NEW YORK, NY, September 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New data on New York City’s abortion statistics reveals an abortion ratio almost twice the national average. The report, provided by the New York City Department of Health at the request of the Chiaroscuro Foundation, a New York City non-for-profit organization that supports alternatives to abortion, said that of 225,667 pregnancies in 2009, there were 87,273 abortions.
The detailed data about abortion in New York has been published at NY41percent.com in the form of an interactive graphic.
Abortion rate statistics show that the zip code with the highest abortion ratio in the city, 67%, is in Manhattan’s Chelsea-Clinton neighborhood, followed by rates of 60% in two Jamaica, Queens zip codes and in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and Central Harlem-Morningside Heights neighborhoods.
The five zip codes with the lowest abortion ratios are on the Upper East Side, in Lower Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, and in Borough Park, Brooklyn. While there are several mostly white neighborhoods among the highest rates, there is not a zip code with less than 57% white residents according to 2010 census data among the lowest rates. About 60% of African-American women’s unborn babies were aborted, 41.3% for Hispanic women, 22.7% for Asians, and 21.4% for Caucasians.
The data revealed that in 2009, 48,627 of the 87,273 abortions in New York City, or 56%, were repeat abortions. 33,401, 38%, were paid for by Medicaid.
“The Chiaroscuro Foundation is grateful to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for providing this detailed data; no city in the nation keeps better, more current records,” said Chiaroscuro Foundation Executive Director Greg Pfundstein. “ Even so, given the city’s extremely high abortion rate, we renew our call for Mayor Bloomberg to instruct the Department to release the data in an even more current fashion: preliminarily month by month throughout the year. Remember, we are still talking about 2009 data.”
“By being able to measure where the highest rates of abortion are occurring in the city, we can determine over time what methods of outreach work best to lower those rates,” he said.
64% of New Yorkers believe the abortion rate is too high in New York City, including 57% of pro-choice women, according to a poll conducted by the polling firm McLaughlin & Associates for the Chiaroscuro Foundation. 74% believe that the overall 60% abortion rate in the African American community is too high. The Chiaroscuro Foundation is hoping to lower the number of abortions in New York City over time by working with New Yorkers and organizations that agree that the rate of abortion in New York is too high. It has pledged $1 million for 2011 to cut the city’s abortion rate. The black population would be booming if not for abortion. Another site had over 70% in Brooklyn.
Are you saying the black population has declined not from movement of people out of the city but from abortion? I dunno if that assertion makes sense..it was clear that the white population accounted for 21% of abortions in 2009, however their population rates went from 52% of the city in 1980 to 33% in 2010 city-wide. If your assertion is correct and the depopulation or stagnant population was due to abortion, then whites should have had the lowest decline, but they did not and in fact had the biggest drop in percentages of any group.
I think abortion is part of it, but it is more about people leaving the city than abortions, as it is with whites.
I can only speak for BK and Queens & the black pop from the 90s to today. In Southeast Queens, where I used to spend my summers as a kid in Queens Village, the black population has been pretty stable and I foresee it remaining that way for a long time. There is no reason for them to move: the crime rates are low to average (except South Jamaica of course), it's far from Manhattan thus little chance of gentrification, and it's very middle class. I do know that East Elmhurst in Northwest Queens has seen the black population decrease a bit.
BK, on the other hand, has been very interesting in the last decade. That's because some neighborhoods have seen an increase in the black population, while traditionally black neighborhoods have some a decrease. Areas like Flatlands and Canarsie has the Caribbean black population increase even more from the 90s (Canarsie was already majority black, by then) & it's fitting as they're middle class neighborhoods that can be seen as an upgrade from the hustle and bustle of Flatbush or Crown Heights. Now, other hoods like Fort Greene/Clinton Hill & Prospect Heights have seen quite a decrease in the black population since the 90s. Back then, black people dominated those neighborhoods like nothing, now we're only half of the population and barely holding on to the little majority that is left. The black presence is still there, no doubt, but now it's mixed in with gentrifiers and hipsters.
You gotta dissect each borough and the neighborhoods within them cause each one tells a different story of where the black population is.
If you're interested in regional breakdowns, the linked map from the Washington Post is interesting. It shows breakdowns by census block group at the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Census (unfortunately, it doesn't have the 1980 Census data up).
You can see some striking changes on this map. Look especially at Canarsie in 1990 v. 2000...
Most Black New Yorkers are moving south or to long island.Even when u watch a knicks vs hawks game or knicks vs magic game u still hear a lot of cheering for the knicks.
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