Abstract

There is a dearth of systematic information about the historical New York City housing market. We present a new sample containing rental price and characteristic data for 10,715 Manhattan units which was collected from historical newspapers for the period 1880–1910. These units were geolocated to the historical map of Manhattan Island to explore their geographic coverage, using Geographic Information System (GIS) software. We use this new sample to plot the evolution of the location and quality of available Manhattan housing units and the development of new neighborhoods. This complements existing research on the growth of New York City and the evolution of the ethnic composition of neighborhoods across Census years, as we show information at annual frequency during this time of high growth for the city.

摘要

缺乏有关纽约市历史住房市场的系统信息。我们提供了一个新样本，其中包含从 1880 年至 1910 年期间从历史报纸收集的 10,715 个曼哈顿单位的租金价格和特征数据。这些单位被地理定位到曼哈顿岛的历史地图上，以使用地理信息系统 (GIS) 软件探索其地理覆盖范围。我们使用这个新样本来绘制可用曼哈顿住房单元的位置和质量以及新社区的发展的演变。这补充了现有的关于纽约市增长和跨人口普查年份社区种族构成演变的研究，因为我们在城市高速增长的这段时间内每年都会显示信息。