Porters statement that "35 percent" of the people in the West Side of Manhattan "occupy the lower income level. many of those living in slums bred of 19th century tenements and old brownstone fronts converted into overcrowded. unsanitary rooming houses." The story begins: There have been many changes on the west side of Manhattan in the last 25 years. but. to paraphrase an old saying. the more it changes the more it remains the West Side. That is. the major change today is a population shift. just as it has usually been since the Manhattan Indians lived along the east bank of the Hudson River In the northern part of the island. First the Dutch displaced the Indians. Next. the British ousted the Dutch. Then came successive waves of immigration. including Irish. German. Italian.
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