It also caught on among non-white groups, most notably African Americans, and Jews. Patronage of Chinese restaurants by rebellious youth and bohemians involved a relatively limited number of people and was confined largely to Chinatown in major cities. And this represented a trend with a limited life span. Slumming in New York, for example, tapered off by the late 1910s and early 1920s, as police crackdowns intensified. In 1918, the New York Sun already referred to its heyday as the “old slumming days.”
