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Sections of Queens like Laurelton and Cambria Heights.
Also St. Albans and Rosedale. The OP didn't leave a lot of detail but when he or she says (no racist), are they asking if you can name a Black neighborhood in New York that is "not poverty" or the U.S. in general? There are plenty of affluent predominately black neighborhoods in the U.S. I would say most are around D.C. (particularly Prince George's County), suburban Atlanta, and most definitely around NYC, particularly Queens (will give a shout out to Roselle, NJ since one of my aunts moved there like 15 yrs. ago when she left BK ).
But its crazy to ask if NYC has black neighborhoods that aren't poor. Queens has the distinction of having a higher income black population than white population:
Not only are some of the highest income black neighborhoods in New York, the OP just said "not poverty". I know I could go on City-Data and look at the incomes of all of the census tracts but I will stick to what I know and say there are a few majority black neighborhoods in Brooklyn that are not wealthy but are not what I would consider to be impoverished.
Thats still a sizable black presence, though. The poster was asking where can you find large numbers of Blacks in the city who aren't poor. The North Bronx in generally has a lot of working class and middle class Blacks. As do parts of Eastern Queens. So do some areas of Harlem.
I know. But you can't really consider it a "black neighborhood" if it's only about 40% black. That means that if you bump into any random person on the street, more likely than not, they would not be black (if that makes any sense). It's a diverse neighborhood with a black plurality, but it's not a black neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by nei
Can't remember where I read the stat, but the median black income is higher than the median Hispanic income in NYC. By about 25%.
I don't feel like looking, but one of the sites in my blog has those stats. (I think it's a CUNY report regarding Hispanics, and I think it's Part III of the blog).
I often use "immense project" in the sense of a large complex, or an undertaking, rather than NYCHA. I guess I could say "pile of houses" or "building complex"
or "large neighborhood of similar looking high rises."
But I guess the word "project" has fallen into disrepute of late.
Probably "housing development" is the clearest choice.
So tell me about "Parkchester Apartment Complex." Is it Mitchell Lama, affordable, market, rental, co-op?
(I have never been to Parkchester but a couple members of my building's staff live up there.)
Hmmm, I see built by Met Life (Like Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper) as rentals and 1/3 has converted to condo ownership. Seems only the housing development is properly called PARKCHESTER, the 171 towers themselves.
Has Met Life sold out?
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I often use "immense project" in the sense of a large complex, or an undertaking, rather than NYCHA. I guess I could say "pile of houses" or "building complex"
or "large neighborhood of similar looking high rises."
But I guess the word "project" has fallen into disrepute of late.
Probably "housing development" is the clearest choice.
So tell me about "Parkchester Apartment Complex." Is it Mitchell Lama, affordable, market, rental, co-op?
(I have never been to Parkchester but a couple members of my building's staff live up there.)
Hmmm, I see built by Met Life (Like Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper) as rentals and 1/3 has converted to condo ownership. Seems only the housing development is properly called PARKCHESTER, the 171 towers themselves.
But I guess the word "project" has fallen into disrepute of late.
Absolutely not. If it is a NYCHA managed building it's always called the "projects" No sugarcoating here.
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