Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New YorkOvington, Mary White
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Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
Ovington, Mary White
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
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| Totals | East | Greenwich | Middle | San | Upper
| | Side | Village | West | Juan | West
| | | | Side | Hill | Side
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New England | 18 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1
West | 11 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1
New York | 157 | 6 | 47 | 42 | 55 | 7
New Jersey | 18 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1
Pennsylvania | 19 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 1
Maryland | 37 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 3
District of Columbia | 26 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 4
Virginia | 375 | 8 | 15 | 71 | 244 | 37
Carolinas | 217 | 6 | 16 | 64 | 127 | 4
Gulf States | 65 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 39 | 1
Canada | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0
West Indies | 87 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 67 | 0
Europe | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0
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| 1036 | 25 | 100 | 243 | 608 | 60
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[4] S. N. Patten, "New Basis of Civilization," p. 52.
[5] Some doubt is cast upon this figure. The New York Health Department
in an enumeration of its own, in 1905, found a population of 3833. There
is no question, however, of the great congestion of this block and the
one north and south of it. The erection of new tenements has gone on
rapidly since 1905, sweeping away the children's playgrounds, and making
this one of the most crowded centres of New York.
[6] Too much cannot be said of the beneficial effect of good housing in
a colored neighborhood, when under such able management as the City and
Suburban Homes Company. Decent homes under competent management are
absolutely necessary to an improvement in the Negro quarters of
Manhattan and of Brooklyn as well. I can speak with some authority of
the good done by the Phipps houses on West Sixty-third Street, as I
lived, for eight months, the only white tenant in the one hundred and
sixty-one apartments. Church and philanthropy had done and are doing
excellent work on these blocks, but a sudden and marked improvement came
from good housing, from the building of clean, healthful homes for
law-abiding people.
[7] The Tenement House Department tabulated the number of Negro
families living in tenements on these streets. I have counted the number
of flats rented to colored people.
[8] July 15, 1910.
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