Poor mostly white area's? (New York, Amsterdam: live, renewal, Hispanic)
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I'm not too familiar with the Bronx or Staten Island but by the late 80s and early 90s most of the poor working class areas in manhattan had already converted from being majority white to either mixed or full blown black/hispanic by that time... Hell's Kitchen was probably one of the last areas in Manhattan that had a significant poor working class white population but by that time it had a significant black/hispanic population as well...
Eh, for the hell of it, might as well throw in my 2 cents about SI as well.
In 1990, the poorest neighborhoods in SI were mostly a mixture of Blacks & Whites (maybe slightly more Blacks than Whites), with some Hispanics (mostly Puerto Rican). So in terms of numbers, maybe 45% Black, 40% White, 15% Hispanic, give or take. The only exception to that rule would be Park Hill (which was mostly Black), and the projects north of the expressway (which had more Whites than there are today, but they were generally something like 8% back then vs. 5% now, so they weren't an even split between Blacks & Whites). The 3 projects south of the expressway were something like 65% White back in 1990.
There are other areas that are more working-class/lower middle class, and most of them were mostly White. (Generally ranging from 60% to 90%). Of course, there were a couple of exceptions back then (the western part of New Brighton & SW Mariners' Harbor were a mixture of Black & White, with some Hispanics, and then there's a more suburban part of Park Hill that was mostly Black, with some Hispanics & Whites).
Nowadays, all of the poorer areas have a noticable Hispanic population (ranging from around 20% to 60%, and there are more Mexicans than there were back then), with a White population of around 10%, and the rest being Black. The more working class/lower middle class areas are generally something like 40% Hispanic, 30% White, 25% Black, 5% Asian. The exception would probably be the areas that were flooded by Hurricane Sandy with the bungalows, which are mostly White (generally, about 75% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 2% Black).
I figure I might as well add this in as well. A couple of years ago, Port Richmond was mentioned as an area where a lot of racial tensions occur with Blacks & PR beating up Mexicans (Personally, I don't really think those were racial tensions, but whatever). Well, there's a few issues with that. Most of these incidents happened in the northern part of the neighborhood, not the whole neighborhood. And second of all, people talk about how the neighborhood used to be a Black neighborhood (and they're upset that Mexicans are moving in and yadda yadda yadda) when it wasn't. Even if we just isolate the northern part (because the southern part was mostly White), like I said, back in 1990, it was pretty much an even split between Blacks & Whites. There were more Blacks than Whites, but I don't think you could've really qualified it as a Black neighborhood back then.
Also Upper West Side, and in the 1940-1950s, Brooklyn Heights.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have the source for Brooklyn Heights?
In any case, you can probably add the LES & East Harlem back then. It took a while before the PR population really built up in those areas, so those were probably poor white areas in the 1950s & 60s. (Well, maybe not as much in the 60s).
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have the source for Brooklyn Heights?
In any case, you can probably add the LES & East Harlem back then. It took a while before the PR population really built up in those areas, so those were probably poor white areas in the 1950s & 60s. (Well, maybe not as much in the 60s).
East Harlem was still majorly PR in the 60s.
I'll try to find it, but a lot of brownstones in Brooklyn Heights were turned into SROs which attracted a lower income transient population. As the neighborhood regained its statures the SROs were reverted back to 1 or 2 family residences.
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I'll try to find it, but a lot of brownstones in Brooklyn Heights were turned into SROs which attracted a lower income transient population. As the neighborhood regained its statures the SROs were reverted back to 1 or 2 family residences.
I would say in the Bronx all of the formerly poor white neighborhoods have been taken over by people of color. Yes there is a contigent of poor whites in lots of white nabes, but the only near poor white neighborhood is Edgewater Park..it is literally a trailer park in the Bronx (and not the only one). It is the last vestige of what a poor white neighborhood used to be, and the only reason it remains that way is because, like Silver Beach, it is privately owned and therefore they do not rent/sell to "outsiders" (otherwise known as black and brown folks).
I can't speak for the rest of the city.
I agree. In Bedford Park in the 60's and 70's for example, there were white ghettos like Villa Avenue (Italian) and E 198 St. (Irish) that are now predominantly hispanic. Back then the apartments on the Concourse was where you strived to live.
Now, I think it's true that poor whites live in the same neighborhoods as poor blacks and hispanics for the most part.
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