Brooklyn 1920 · Windsor Place 1940 + 1950
Birthplace and occupation distributions per census decade. The arc shows the immigrant-wave succession: Irish-dominant Brooklyn in 1920 → Italian + Russian Jewish in 1940 → US-born majority by 1950. Manual labor → clerical → professional follows the same pattern.
72,572 residents
1920 figures reflect ALL of Brooklyn (NY Kings County) — the DPLA sample includes ~72k residents across the borough. Use as a borough-wide baseline.
6,870 residents
1940 figures are Windsor Place / Terrace residents only, extracted from 20 Brooklyn AD 22 + AD 23 EDs via Gemini Flash OCR.
1,853 residents
1950 figures are Windsor Place / Terrace residents only, extracted from 8 NY Kings 24-16xx EDs.