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There are still a lot of ethnic neighborhoods left though many have shrunken or been "invaded " by newer arrivals.
Woodlawn,in The Bronx,has to be one of the last really strong cohesive European ethnic holdouts.It has been an Irish neighborhood for generations and still gets a large number of new arrivals( legal and illegal) every year.
Morris Park,Bronx, is no longer as big or as completely Italian as it once was but it is still mostly Italian with the churches,schools,social organizations,restaurants and shops still thriving with lots of Italian heard on the streets.Same for the Arthur Avenue area.
My neighborhood,Pelham Parkway, used to be a big( and almost exclusively) Jewish and Italian Neighborhood.The remnants of the Jewish and Italian communities are still here and very visible and it has become the largest Albanian neighborhood in NY in the last 15 years.
Is Brighton Beach as bad as the cop shows make it seem? How about Ukrainians? Germans? (My background is ethnic German from Russia, ie. Black Sea Germans tho Volga Germans are more numerous). Lithuanians? (Haven't met one I didn't like)
There's very little immigration from Europe these days, and older communities invariably dissipate - we ARE a melting pot, after all. Even Brighton Beach is now less Russian than it was 10 years ago, from what I know.
Is Brighton Beach as bad as the cop shows make it seem? How about Ukrainians? Germans? (My background is ethnic German from Russia, ie. Black Sea Germans tho Volga Germans are more numerous). Lithuanians? (Haven't met one I didn't like)
The only neighborhood that has any German presence in this city is probably Glendale in Queens [Which is where I reside].
Ukrainians are pretty scattered in many of the eastern Euro hoods in the city [Ridgewood, Queens or Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn for instance].
Seems that Asian & Middle Eastern neighborhoods are in full swing, though. Queens & Brooklyn are thriving and have shadowed the European neighborhoods.
Bay Ridge and Dyker Hts in Brooklyn both have a significant Italian presence and the former also still has an Irish presence. Also Middle Village , Maspeth and the parts of Ridgewood that are further away from the Bushwick border contain a ethnic European presence.
Last edited by otters21; 12-15-2009 at 10:56 AM..
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