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Location: Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York City, New York, 10302
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Originally Posted by DoomDan515
I highly doubt the borough went from 64% to 50% in half a year, especially since it was 67% in 2000.
I didn't say it was 50% white, I said it was 50% ignorant, conservative, Italian ex-Brooklynites or whatever nonsense the last guy said. That would leave that last 14% of white people to be... idk... normal, eaygoing white folk?
In all honesty, SI is obviously much less than 50% racist Italians from Brooklyn. That guy wasn't being serious with his 80% estimate, and I was being just as un-serious with my 50% estimate. I was just saying that it's less than what he said, but still an issue.
There aren't as many in Queens as people think. Brooklyn has just as many. I would say it's a toss-up between Queens and Brooklyn.
A lot of areas in Queens are mixed not really enclaves. The question was specifically enclaves not what borough is most diverse. Everyone knows Queens is the most diverse.
You're right NooYowkur81, we all lost track with the whole diversity thing. I think I'd have to agree, as far as actual enclaves it would be very close between Brooklyn and Queens. Queens still may have it though?
Duh... Queens, of course. It's called "the immigrant borough," and parts of it--Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Woodside--factually make up the most ethnically diverse community in the world.
Manhattan is 90% rich white transplant and 10% poor black and Hispanic. .
Actually Manhattan has quite a number of Asians in Chinatown, and some Orthodox Jews in Wash Heights - though I wouldnt call it as ethnically diverse as it used to be, or as the outer boroughs are (I kind of doubt that all of the whites are "transplants" or that all the blacks are poor, though)
Easily Queens. You have areas that have Middle Eastern, Dominicans, blacks, Russians, etc. No other borough has sections that have so many neighborhoods of strictly one group of people.
Gantz those Bronx numbers are deceiving though. For example..within that 53% Hispanic numbers, it could represent 25 different Hispanic groups/enclaves, and the Black 30% could be 15 different Black ethnic groups.
That's kinda like saying if Queens were 50% Asian it is not diverse...when the reality is it 30 different ethnic asians groups.
Gantz those Bronx numbers are deceiving though. For example..within that 53% Hispanic numbers, it could represent 25 different Hispanic groups/enclaves, and the Black 30% could be 15 different Black ethnic groups.
That's kinda like saying if Queens were 50% Asian it is not diverse...when the reality is it 30 different ethnic asians groups.
I agree with you. But to be honest I still don't think the Bronx is as diverse as Queens or Brooklyn.
My list of diverse boroughs would be:
1. Queens
2. Brooklyn
3. the Bronx
4. Manhattan
5. Staten Island
I was speaking in general when I threw those numbers out there, but they are in the ballpark. The point was the overwhelming majority of those areas were one or two groups of people.
If you want the hard stats, only 9.1% of the Bronx is Non-Hispanic White. Non-White Hispanics are 53% and Non-Hispanic Blacks make up 30%. There is some overlap because obviously there are White and Black Hispanics. When you do the math, the Bronx is about 88% Hispanic and Black. And it's the poorest borough in the city by far. The majority of those Hispanics and Blacks are working class, at best, and most are working poor or poor.
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