New York
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- NYC mainland
- Politics c. 1860?
- 6
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1920 | 3,506 | 168 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 17698 | 833 | 50 | |||||
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| 2000 | 17823 | 14989 | 271 | 2242 | 3 | 467 | ||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Zoning
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Scarsdale’s black population in 1960 was
overwhelmingly female (about 7 to 1). 794 of the black residents that year lived in households with non-relatives as head of household. This indicates that most or all of these black people were live-in domestic workers.
“White Plains and Scarsdale, NY, … used zoning and other police powers to remove poor blacks from settled neighborhoods and redevelop them for affluent whites.” See Paul H. Mattingly, Suburban Landscapes.