I forget what I was trying to prove when I started working on this chart yesterday morning, but late yesterday afternoon I realized there was a 90 percent finished visual display of data on my computer so I figured I might as well finish it:
Brooklyn follows a pretty standard American city pattern here—growing until World War II then shrinking during the postwar suburbanization, then turning around more recently but remaining below peak. But Queens and the Bronx had only one down decade, the 1970s, and it came late. Nevertheless, the collapse in the Bronx was so dramatic that it’s still at below-peak levels. Queens and Staten Island are currently experiencing their peaks. Manhattan, meanwhile, reached its peak way back in 1910.
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