[1] Harold M. Finley in Federation, May, 1908.
[2] Thomas Clarkson, "History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade," p. 378.
Place of birth of 1036 New York Negro tenement dwellers. These figures were obtained chiefly from personal visits:
| Totals | East Side | Greenwich Village | Middle West Side | San Juan Hill | Upper West Side | |
| New England | 18 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| West | 11 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| New York | 157 | 6 | 47 | 42 | 55 | 7 |
| New Jersey | 18 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 1 |
| Maryland | 37 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 3 |
| District of Columbia | 26 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
| Virginia | 375 | 8 | 15 | 71 | 244 | 37 |
| Carolinas | 217 | 6 | 16 | 64 | 127 | 4 |
| Gulf States | 65 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 39 | 1 |
| Canada | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| West Indies | 87 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 67 | 0 |
| Europe | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1036 | 25 | 100 | 243 | 608 | 60 |
[4] S. N. Patten, "New Basis of Civilization," p. 52.
[5] Some doubt is cast upon this figure. The New York Health Department in an enumeration of its own, in 1905, found a population of 3833. There is no question, however, of the great congestion of this block and the one north and south of it. The erection of new tenements has gone on rapidly since 1905, sweeping away the children's playgrounds, and making this one of the most crowded centres of New York.
[6] Too much cannot be said of the beneficial effect of good housing in a colored neighborhood, when under such able management as the City and Suburban Homes Company. Decent homes under competent management are absolutely necessary to an improvement in the Negro quarters of Manhattan and of Brooklyn as well. I can speak with some authority of the good done by the Phipps houses on West Sixty-third Street, as I lived, for eight months, the only white tenant in the one hundred and sixty-one apartments. Church and philanthropy had done and are doing excellent work on these blocks, but a sudden and marked improvement came from good housing, from the building of clean, healthful homes for law-abiding people.
[7] The Tenement House Department tabulated the number of Negro families living in tenements on these streets. I have counted the number of flats rented to colored people.
[8] July 15, 1910.