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Russian Jews, Israeli Jews, Eastern Europeans... It has a very Eastern European feel in parts for sure. The old school Irish and Italians aren't as plentiful.
Russian Jews, Israeli Jews, Eastern Europeans... It has a very Eastern European feel in parts for sure. The old school Irish and Italians aren't as plentiful.
I know it's known as being an Eastern European neighborhood, but I see Asians and Latinos in the neighborhood as well. Same thing with Brighton Beach.
I know it's known as being an Eastern European neighborhood, but I see Asians and Latinos in the neighborhood as well. Same thing with Brighton Beach.
Nothing new about that. The Chinese have been along and around Avenue U for years now. Just because you see people walking around the area doesn't mean they live there.
It’s a neat neighborhood. It with Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach really form a large community of peoples from ex Soviet states. The last several years has seen an especially large number of Central Asians move in.
Nothing new about that. The Chinese have been along and around Avenue U for years now. Just because you see people walking around the area doesn't mean they live there.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
It’s a neat neighborhood. It with Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach really form a large community of peoples from ex Soviet states. The last several years has seen an especially large number of Central Asians move in.
I was gonna mention, a lot of the Asian looking people there might be from the Stan countries
You're funny. Every neighborhood I've lived in has had a Jewish presence, so you can put your little victim flag back in your pocket. You just have a problem with me telling it like it is, and that goes for all groups of people. Nobody gets a pass! I've met some Jews that have been very welcoming and others that have been ignorant racist jerks. People are people in all groups. Where I live now, I have some Jews that speak to me as I make my way to work while others think they're the cat's meow.
Part of the transitions occurring in Sheepshead Bay is the decline/near disappearance of along established African American community that has existed there for over 120 years.
Driven primarily by employment in the area's racetracks a Black community grew up in Sheepshead Bay centered on East 15th Street just south of Gravesend Neck Road. In 1899, Maria J. Fisher petitioned the Concord Baptist Church downtown for a community church and the First Baptist Church was dedicated in 1901.
I used to have a routine of walking down the blocks on my way to pickup a sandwich and continue down to the fishing boats at Sheepshead Bay. In recent years the community has to my eyes shrunk quite a bit as the original houses have often been torn down for redevelopment. Some however still remain great examples of "folk architecture " more common in upstate New York.
I believe the actor Louis Gosset Jr. was part of this community as he was Brooklyn born and lived just a couple of blocks away as a 3 year old born to a mom and dad from GA and SC respectively.
Some fascinating history in this little corner of Brooklyn.
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