New York
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1920 | 3,590 | 42 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 7,172 | 233 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In the 1990s, I was told outright by an elderly woman who worked in the town to “not let the sun go down me” in Pleasantville, NY. She also was very frightened at the prospect of me jogging in the evenings, and told me outright that I was “not supposed to do that in Pleasantville”. Her reaction was so strong that I did not jog there. I do not know when this town was settled, but I do know that in the 1990s, it was understood among Black workers in Pleasantville that they should not be out after dark in Pleasantville, NY.”