subs. (common).—New York City. GOTHAMITE, a New Yorker. [First used by Washington Irving in Salmagundi (1807).]
1848. E. Z. C. JUDSON (‘Ned Buntline’), The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, ch. xiii. One of the vilest of all hells in GOTHAM.
1852. BRISTED, The Upper Ten Thousand, p. 37. The first thing, as a general rule, that a young GOTHAMITE does is to get a horse; the second, to get a wife.
