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Tuesday
Feb142012

History of overcrowding


My classmate Ryan is developing a thesis on overcrowding in Jackson Heights, Queens. Though it's no longer widely discussed, it's still an issue in many New York neighborhoods. The decline on this Ngrams graph seems to match the general decanting of American cities, but I'm curious about that bump in the late seventies.

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