Staten Island question (Yonkers, Eastchester, Ridge: neighborhoods, schools, live in)
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I currently live in upstate NY and I will be moving to NYC in the summer. I am looking for the heaviest Italian population in Brooklyn or Staten Island. Any help would be appreciated.
The whole "South Shore" of Staten Island is heavily Italian. When the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened, most of the Italians from Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bensonhurst started moving over.
There are Irish, Polish, and Russian pockets here and there, but most people are Italian on the South Shore.
The "North Shore" is more diverse though, with more blacks, Latinos, and Liberian immigrants.
In Brooklyn, the neighborhood with the heaviest concentration of Italians is still Bensonhurst. And Sheepshead Bay probably comes in second. Both nice residential districts.
In Brooklyn, the neighborhood with the heaviest concentration of Italians is still Bensonhurst. And Sheepshead Bay probably comes in second. Both nice residential districts.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY!?!?
sheepshead is all russian, as a matter of fact most of these neighborhoods have many russians now, bensonhurst though is so italian the russians speak with that slant lol, i say
1.bensonhurst
2.bay ridge
and thats about it because brooklyn just isnt that italian no more...
and thats about all i can tell you sorry =(
staten island has the heaviest concentration of italians probably any were in nyc or even the whole USA for that matter, Bensonhursts in brooklyn the italians moved out in droves either going to staten island or long island. The only part of nyc that comes in second with high concentration of italians is the morris park section of the bronx, country club and throgs neck.
Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge in brooklyn both have a decent Italian populations - the former more so than the latter ( mixed with Irish, Greeks and Arab Christian. )
If you're willing to go a wee bit north to southern Westchester, many many parts are heavily Italian. If not worried about schools (at least beyond elementary level) many parts of Yonkers as well as the Fleetwood section of Mt. Vernon are heavily Italian-American. Nearby more suburban towns that I think of as significantly Italian are Eastchester and Dobbs Ferry (though Westchester as a whole has a significant Italian-American population).
In Brooklyn, the neighborhood with the heaviest concentration of Italians is still Bensonhurst. And Sheepshead Bay probably comes in second. Both nice residential districts.
In Brooklyn I strongly agree with "I_RUN_NY" above. I's definitely Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge and I'd like to add Dyker Heights to that mix.
Sheepshead Bay no way, not compared to the three mentioned above.
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