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Thirty years ago I remember coming to New York City for the first time and was amused at finding so many stereotypical New Yorkers. Many were of Italian background (generations before) and had that brash New York accent and attitude.
Now I go to the Manhattan part of New York and I run into very few people like that. Manhattan seems to be mostly the rich or immigrants.
Where did the old fashioned stereotype New Yorkers go? Staten Island? Brooklyn? Queens, Long Island? or Jersey?
I am particularly interested in finding the old fashioned Working Class New Yorkers with Italian backgrounds with strong accents and lots of attitude.
Most are gone except a few like myself in Bklyn,along with the other europeans. The 3rd world people are taken over NYC.
Lower East Side/Little Italy, Harlem (East and West), Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village all had sizable Italian populations at one time. East Harlem area around Rao's restaurant (East 114th Street) was one of the last hold outs and still as a decent "old school" Italian-American population but they are slowly going and being replaced by Mexicans/Latinos.
Where did they go? Aside from dying off many moved to other parts of NYC or NYS on their own or to be near or with their children/grandchildren. Others still moved on as the neighborhoods changed.
They died off, maybe? But didn't the old style New Yorkers have children?
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Originally Posted by BugsyPal
Lower East Side/Little Italy, Harlem (East and West), Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village all had sizable Italian populations at one time. East Harlem area around Rao's restaurant (East 114th Street) was one of the last hold outs and still as a decent "old school" Italian-American population but they are slowly going and being replaced by Mexicans/Latinos.
Where did they go? Aside from dying off many moved to other parts of NYC or NYS on their own or to be near or with their children/grandchildren. Others still moved on as the neighborhoods changed.
When I think of the New York Attitude I think of Judge Judy. I run into so many New Yorkers who remind me of her.
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