MANHATTAN BRONX LABEL NAME The LABEL NAME 1 Bater y Park 13 Central Park West 1 North New York 2 Greenwich Village 14 Fifh Av enue Bronx 2 St Marys Park 3 Lower East Side 15 Yorkville 3 Highbridge 4 Hells Kitchen 16 Columbia University 4 Morrisania 5 Chelsea 17 Manhatanvi lle 5 Fordham Heights 6 Madison Square 18 Mount Morris Park Rent Levels Across NYC 6 Bronx Park 7 Stuyvesant Square 19 Jeffer son Park 7 Jerome Park Reservoir 8 De Wit Cl int on 20 Harlem Bridge based on the 1940 Census 8 Riverdale 9 Columbus Circle 21 City College 9 Hunts Point 10 Times Square 22 Harlem 10 Clason Point 1940 rents 11 Plaza 23 Washington Heights 11 Throgs Neck 12 Queensboro Bridge 24 Inwood adjusted for inflation: n a 12 Park Versailles t t 13 Union Port a h 14 Pelham Bay Park $150 in 1940 n 15 Westchester Heights a = $2,458 in 2012 M 16 Williamsbridge 17 Gun Hill Road 18 Baychester 19 Woodlawn 20 Edenwald $30 in 1940 = $492 in 2012 Queens BROOKLYN LABEL NAME QUEENS 1 Greenpoint 8 South Brooklyn 15 Kensington 22 Flatlands LABEL NAME 2 WIlliamsburg 9 Park Slope 16 Flatbush 23 Mill Basin 1 Astoria 3 English Kills 10 Eastern Parkway 17 Holy Cross 24 Canarsie 2 Long Island CIty 4 Brooklyn Heights 11 Brownsville 18 Bay Ridge 25 Spring Creek Basin 3 Sunnyside 4 Woodside Winfiel d 5 Fort Greene Park 12 Highland Park 19 Bensonhurst 26 Sea Gate 5 Jackson Heights 6 Stuyvesant 13 Sunset Park 20 Gravesend 27 Neck Road 6 Corona 7 Bushwick 14 Borough Park 21 South Greenfiel d 28 Coney Island 7 Maspeth Brooklyn 8 Elmhurst S Elmhurst 9 Ridgewood Glendale 10 Nassau Heights STATEN ISLAND 11 Forest Hills 12 Flushing South LABEL NAME 13 Flushing 1 Brighton 14 College Point 15 Whitestone 2 Stapleton 16 Bayside 3 Dongan Hills 17 Douglaston Litle Ne ck 4 Port Richmond 18 Woodhaven 19 Ozone Park 5 Mariner's Harbor 20 Richmond Hill 6 Travis 21 Jamaica 7 Great Kills Staten 22 South Jamaica Island 23 Hollis 8 Prince's Bay 24 Queens Village 9 Totenvi lle 25 Howard Beach 26 Springfiel d 27 St Albans 28 Laurelton Rosedale 29 South Laurelton 30 Neponsit 31 Hammels Visit www.1940snewyork.com for more information. 32 Arverne 33 Far Rockaway Map source: 1943 "NYC Market Analysis", based on 1940 Census data 34 Cunningham Park Layout: Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center 35 Bellerose.