The Hasidic and Latino communities both swelled after World War II, experiencing occasional friction as land and resources became scarcer.
There are large expat communities from around the world, representing Britain to Cameroon, here for their career or part of an immigrant community that swells the outer boroughs with their home cuisine and culture.
One was on the infant son of a 33-year-old man who moved to Germany from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an immigration wave of mostly Eastern European Jews who have helped the Jewish community here swell to more than 100,000.
After 1979, the small Iranian community in London swelled as more fled the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Dozens of birds are now cared for by the community, their numbers swelled by opportunistic ducks.
In the weeks leading up to the four-day conference, the literary community on Twitter swelled with excitement, and #AWP15 began to trend.
The Iraqi community alone, its size swelled by the Persian Gulf war, numbers about 3,000.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Bukharan community in the United States swelled to about 50,000 from a few thousand, almost all of them in Rego Park and Forest Hills in Queens.
Settlement in the lagoon predates Roman times, but the present urban structure took shape in the early 7th century, when migrants from the mainland swelled existing fishing communities on the higher mudflats and sandbanks.
The membership of her online community, Works by Nicole Williams has swelled to 800,000, and a scripted series based on Girl On Top is in development with Warner Brothers.
