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yes its true Bensonhurst has been transformed from Italian to Russians now its Asians!! I cant believe myself.. as a Brooklyn girl I grew up on Bensonhurst...till moved to staten island 7 years ago.. I still going Brooklyn for visit family and friends too... they live there.. so i cant believe when I went to see my old block and I dont see anyone outside at night time during summer time.. I spk to a woman who I used live downstair from her... she told me everyone dont speak english i feel like im in chinatown of bensonhurst haha...i remember during my high school year between 1993 to 1997 there was more russians some Italian people moved away to staten island some move to Florida...then about in 2000s there are few i said about 40% asians people moved into the neighborhood italian people sold their businesses...so finally I came to Brooklyn last week pretty more often...I do see alots of asians stores..hair salon and nail store everywhere on bay parkway and 18th ave and some on 20th ave i was like oh my god I missed my old time.. sigghsss.. i love Bensonhurst with all my heart...grew up with italian people.. I took some pictures last weekend that some store has been change alots... I live in staten island alots of people from Bensonhurst i just happened to bump at the mall...
When I was living in Bensonhurst the realestates agencies did not allowed anyone who was colored to live in the area. My cousin just moved to Staten Island. she said the Orientals were buying out everything in Bensonhust Over price and cash Also the people that moved next to them were very dirty attracting rodents and insects.
Yes, Bensonhurst / Bath Beach has become very Chinese. The Russians came in the 90's, but they are transient and didn't stay. The Chinese come in and buy, so they are staying. They like flowers and plants in front of their homes, and so do I, so that works for me.
A lot of signs now on 86th and Bay Parkway are in Chinese....
Every new house that is built is bought by Chinese. The best way to tell a sure fire Chinese owner is by the the ugly Stainless Steel doors they ALL install. Even if it is a four family house and there are four doors, they will be SS, but they will all be different, you would think that since they all like the SS doors, they would all try to agree get the same door on the same house so it will look uniform and nice, but no, they don't.
But I do have to say, if a bunch of Chinese teens are walking down the street, if you didn't see them, you would never hear them, they don't carry on like manics when they walk around, and that works for me too.
After seeing Belmont, Little Italy and Bensonhurst, I think that Bensonhurst is actually the more original italian neighborhood left in the whole New York... maybe because is a very large area, densely inhabited by italian-american people...
Nothing left in Bensonhurst from the Italian American era. Almost everything gone on 86th St.. The bakeries, pork stores, barbers, you name it. I need to get out, but I don't know where. Lol
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I took some pictures last weekend that some store has been change alots... I live in staten island alots of people from Bensonhurst i just happened to bump at the mall...
