What are the ethnic enclaves in your city, if any?

[SPonteKC]

Kansas City's primary ethnic enclaves are...

Mexican
Strawberry Hill - formerly Croatian
Polish hill - formerly polish
Rose dale
Armourdale
Central Avenue corridor
Argentine
West side - 2nd and 3rd generation Chicano

Latin American (including Mexican):
Northeast - a large swath of the city, which has long been its traditional melting pot, though it was dominated by Italians for most of the last century. Now overwhelming Latin American in many of its individual neighborhoods including Lykins, Scarritt, Indian Mound, and Sheffield and the Truman Road corridor

Asian:
Columbus park - Vietnamese, formerly a Sicilian enclave (KC s little Italy)
Northeast - part of NE especially concentrated along Independence Avenue are heavily SE Asian

Sudanese (KC s Sudan community is comparatively very large) and Somali:
Pendleton heights

Italians have largely dispersed to Northland suburbs, though there are still fairly strong vestiges of KC s small but influential Sicilian tcommunity in Columbus Park, River Market and Northeast above the Avenue.

KC is fairly Irish at 9.66 percent, but as elsewhere in the Midwest, they are very dispersed and assimilated. In the city, they are more or less the de facto white ethnicity in the west side hoods with the "traditional " heart of the Irish community in Westport.

Not as enclavey as old school Industrial cities that saw more recent large scale immigration, nonetheless KC is more ethnic and enclavey than most people realize, a fact perhaps masked by the fluidity of its neighborhoods and the continuity of its street grid.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by Kevin J

There are many in Chicago:

Chinatown: South of downtown. Tiny by the standards of the ones in New York and San Francisco, but nevertheless a concentrated district of Chinese restaurants and shops and a significant number of actual Chinese residents as well.

And it's going into Bridgeport now. Bridgeport is about 35% Asian now.

North Center/Ravenswood..there are a number of Buddhist Asian temples located there, although this has more to do with Argyle (New Chinatown).

Koreatown: Centered on Lawrence Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood on the north side. Lots of Korean restaurants and businesses in a half mile stretch.

You could also count North Park part of this. The Chicago Korean Festival is actually held in North Park and there are a good amount of Korean places in that neighborhood. According to my Korean friend, possibly the best Korean place in town is located there (at least by his standards and his family's). The area is about 25% Asian now.


I will say too that Koreatown has gone down in size, but it's only because a lot of Koreans moved to the burbs. You can find a lot of Korean restaurants and markets in the nearby northern burbs of course. A lot have moved out too from awhile ago but they can be found in the nearer north suburbs such as Glenview. You could also count North Park as part of this.

Little Village and Pilsen: Historically, the major Mexican residence and business districts. Over the past 20 years, Mexican enclaves have sprung up all over the north and south sides, but these two are still the major Mexican districts.

Little Village is part of South Lawndale which is pretty much majorly all Hispanic (mainly Mexican). There are other areas though. Breakdown though of community areas with Hispanic percentages of >= 45%:

Gage Park: 89% Hispanic (35,589 people)
Hermosa: 87% (21,860)
Brighton Park: 85% (38,694)
South Lawndale: 82% (65,460)
Lower West Side: 82% (29,484)
West Lawn: 80% (26,670)
West Elsdon: 79% (14,313)
Belmont Cragin: 79% (62,104)
Archer Heights: 76% (10,181)
McKinley Park: 65% (10,110)
New City: 57% (25,432)
Montclare: 54% (7247)
Humboldt Park: 53% (30,048)
Albany Park: 49% (25,487)
Hegewisch: 49% (4670)
Chicago Lawn: 45% (25,138)
Clearing: 45% (10,484)
Irving Park: 45% (24,331)

Rogers Park: Historically, a Jewish immigrant neighborhood. There are still some synagogues and Hebrew schools and a small number of orthodox residents who live near these institutions.

You could say that about a number of areas. The Near West side was notorious for that back in the day. I believe places like North Lawndale and Woodlawn were pretty jewish too.


Along with this is the Chicago Lawn neighborhood which was a big time Arab enclave until the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s when they started moving to suburbs such as Bridgeview. The Islamic Center of Chicago is still there and some restaurants/marts still exist on 63rd street near Kedzie. Also to note that in Chicago Lawn there is the city's Black Hebrew Jewish congregation (about 200 people).

[urbanenthusiastfromKC]

[quote=SPonteKC;29497056]Kansas City's primary ethnic enclaves are...

Mexican
Strawberry Hill - formerly Croatian
Polish hill - formerly polish
Rose dale
Armourdale
Central Avenue corridor
Argentine
West side - 2nd and 3rd generation Chicano

I grew up on Strawberry Hill, right next to Holy Family Slovenian Catholic Church. I can still say Strawberry Hill is still a Yugoslav Enclave (though primarily Croatian there are lots of Slovenians(Most of the Serbs went out to Johnson County)) The neighborhood is mainly Mexican but I feel like there are still tons of Croatians, for example if you go around there are still tons of Croatian flags saddled up on peoples houses, the mono ethnic churches are still thriving with their ethnicities and the Slovenian-Croatian national home is still a cool and open place.

Also if we are going to consider Polish Hill its own neighborhood then can't we count Russian Hill, a lot of people consider it Strawberry Hill but I think it's too far south. It's right behind Johnnies on 7th Sports Bar. It's a cool little hood. The Russians have totally flew away from the area but it's still cool, Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox has been re instated even if it's not a church anymore. I love KCK and it's slavic enclaves.