Joseph…………..
not for argument’s sake, but as a point of observation. Look at your list and see how many of these were first generation immigrants who settled in NYC and never moved on. Not an unusual thing.
My great-great grandfather landed in NYC in 1868 with his wife and 5 of his children. He was horrified when my great grandmother and her husband moved out of town to Brooklyn (a separate city) in 1895, buying a house in Boro Park and raising a family there.