Question in regard to Woodlawn area of the bronx (Pelham: 2009, neighborhoods)

[wonderfulstreet13]

Just curious I know Woodlawn is heavily Irish from posts I read and I know wikipedia says Italians are the minority it Woodlawn. My question is:

What other ethnic groups live in Woodlawn?

Thanx

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by wonderfulstreet13

Just curious I know Woodlawn is heavily Irish from posts I read and I know wikipedia says Italians are the minority it Woodlawn. My question is:

What other ethnic groups live in Woodlawn?

Thanx

That's about it.There may be a few of these or a few of those but basically Woodlawn is one of the last ethnically homogenous neighborhoods left in the city. Sort of a throwback to an earlier time.
Here is a picture of the riders on the Katonah Avenue bus:
http://www.yournabe.com/content/arti...4163525868.jpg

[7 Wishes]

A unique thing about Woodlawn is that much of the Irish population are recent (anywhere from 1980's to now) immigrants to the US, as opposed to most of the rest of the Irish population of the greater NY area whose ancestors either came during the Potato Famine years of the mid-1800s, or part of the smaller Irish contingent that came to the US in the 1880-1920 period much more known for Italian and Jewish immigration to the northeast US.

Other than a few Italians, the only other ethnic group I can think of that lives in Woodlawn is you may see a few elderly Jews. At one time (up to the 1960s) the Bronx was very heavily Jewish (as well as Italian and to a lesser extent Irish) and while Woodlawn was not one of the more "Jewish" neighborhoods, almost every part of the Bronx had some semblence of a Jewish population in the early-mid 20th century (now limited to Riverdale) and except for south of Fordham Road you may see an isolated elderly white (usually Jewish, sometimes Italian) person or couple living in a Bronx neighborhood that is otherwise Hispanic or black because they never moved with all the "white flight" in the 60s and 70s.

[bluedog2]

7 Wishes,there is still a significant Jewish presence in my neighborhood,Pelham Parkway.It still has active synagogues,a Jewish Community Center,Kosher butcher,bakery,school,settlement house,etc.It had dwindled down to mostly older, long time residents but has begun growing again with a recent influx of Russian(and other Eastern European) Jewish immigrants.