2. The slums of new york should be regarded as the Bronx. This is the northernmost of the five districts in new york. By 2000, the population of Bronx was about 65,438+0,200,000, mainly African-American and Hispanic, with less Asian. In the early years, the residents of the Bronx were mainly white immigrants, and their overall economic ability was relatively rich. However, since the Second World War, due to the aging of the region, the original whites moved out, and the immigrants who moved in were mainly African-Americans and Latinos. By the1970s, the Bronx had become a slum with high unemployment rate and was famous for its serious crime rate. Arson often happened in the residential areas from 1970 to 1980 in Bronx, and it was not until 1968+0990 that the New York city government cracked down vigorously.