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I may have to change my answer and support you. Queens makes sense to many given that it is more ethnically diverse than Brooklyn in terms of the representation of different ethnicities. Having written that, however, that doesn't necessarily translate into more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn. And, from my understanding of the two boroughs, Brooklyn may very well have more true ethnic enclaves than Queens. Maybe they are there (and acknowledging that Asians of all stripes, West Indians, African Americans, non-recent immigrant whites, Hispanics, etc. are found in both boroughs), you don't really hear much about Queens having significant Eastern European (Polish, Russian, to a lesser extent Albanians, etc.) enclaves. Now, I very well may be wrong about this, but this is the sense that I get.
Queens is the diverse place on earth, even Forest Hills which was usually known as a mostly upper middle class Jewish neighborhood is mixed with a lot of Asians, Latinos and some blacks now, Forest Hills HS where my cousins went to is 30 percent white, 25 percent asian 30 latino percent or any race, 10 percent black and 5 percent mixed. That is incredible.
I may have to change my answer and support you. Queens makes sense to many given that it is more ethnically diverse than Brooklyn in terms of the representation of different ethnicities. Having written that, however, that doesn't necessarily translate into more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn. And, from my understanding of the two boroughs, Brooklyn may very well have more true ethnic enclaves than Queens. Maybe they are there (and acknowledging that Asians of all stripes, West Indians, African Americans, non-recent immigrant whites, Hispanics, etc. are found in both boroughs), you don't really hear much about Queens having significant Eastern European (Polish, Russian, to a lesser extent Albanians, etc.) enclaves. Now, I very well may be wrong about this, but this is the sense that I get.
Queens has more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn. You'll find Polish in Maspeth and Ridgewood, Russians in Rego Park, Albanians in Sunnyside, etc... You are very well wrong about this.
Queens has more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn. You'll find Polish in Maspeth and Ridgewood, Russians in Rego Park, Albanians in Sunnyside, etc... You are very well wrong about this.
OK, so I'm wrong about that. Still doesn't help in answering whether Queens has more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn (indeed, Brooklyn has all of those groups, and more, as well), which was the main purpose of my post.
OK, so I'm wrong about that. Still doesn't help in answering whether Queens has more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn (indeed, Brooklyn has all of those groups, and more, as well), which was the main purpose of my post.
For one thing, Queens has more neighborhoods and livable land. Ever look at the horizon and noticed that there are more Condo towers in Queens than Bklyn?
For awhile I couldn't find a good Jamaican Patty in Brooklyn other than downtown but it was weak vs the real deal in Jamaica Queens.
Queens has a pretty sizeable Korean population. Not many in Bkyln.
For Latinos, Queens has a much broader spectrum of Latinos and South Americans than Bklyn. Jackson Heights, Corona, Sunnyside, and Elmhurst always had pretty good Latin food and festivities. There are nowhere in Bklyn like Jackson Heights where you can smell Adobo getting off the 7 train.
As for Europeans, there used to be good chunk of Polish, Irish, and Italian neighborhoods around. Now it's harder to define which area but they still exist in parts of Queens and even harder to define in Bklyn.
The problem with Bklyn is that there are too little neighborhoods that connected to each other without some separation by a park, factories, or cemetery.
OK, so I'm wrong about that. Still doesn't help in answering whether Queens has more ethnic enclaves than Brooklyn (indeed, Brooklyn has all of those groups, and more, as well), which was the main purpose of my post.
Queens has more ethnic enclaves. You'll find more countries represented in Queens and in larger numbers. Maybe Brooklyn has more culture, which might be what your talking about, but as for diversity, that goes to Queens. I'm in both boros everyday as I live on the border, it is very noticeable which has more ethnic enclaves.
The Bronx is becoming more and more a destination for various immigrant groups. Pockets of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Jamaicans/West Indians, Albanians, Irish, Italians, etc spread throughout the borough.
Queens by far. No contest really. I'm guessing some people don't venture far from home...
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