Recently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of change of the city. In 1970,18 percent of the city’s population was foreign born. By 1995 ,the figure has risen to 33 percent, and another 20 percent were the US - born off springs of immigrants. So immigrants and their children now form a majority of the city’s population. How much of New York’s population was foreign born in 19957