NYC newest immigrant enclaves (Ridge: 2013, neighborhood, living in)

[ShadowMassa]

Few months old, interesting read - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-enclaves.html

[anon1]

Originally Posted by ShadowMassa

Few months old, interesting read - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-enclaves.html

I can vouch for a couple of areas but that Ridgewood bit was 100% false...

Alex Santiago... "When he was growing up, he said, the neighborhood was heavily Latino, and dangerous. It was a risky proposition to walk along the residential streets separating the area’s main commercial arteries, Forest Avenue and Fresh Pond Road, particularly at night."

Forest ave and Fresh Pond Rd was never heavily latino. If anything there was one section of Forest and Fresh pond that was majority Spanish (about 50-55%) and that was near the M train line from about Palmetto to Catalpa. That area has probably gone from about 55% to 40-45% Hispanic but to claim that it was a dangerous neighborhood especially coming from another Hispanic is just ridiculous and it shows how this person either never lived in a working class neighborhood prior to living in Ridgewood or he's just being blatantly racist...

[ShadowMassa]

I agree with you, this is based of my knowledge about Ridgewood, then and now. My uncle lived in Ridgewood (on Forest ave between Palmetto and Woodbine) throughout the 90's and I don't recall a sector of it being heavily Latino. I recall the area then being heavily Slavic and Italian. I know the Ridgewood border around Cypress and Palmetto (under the M) have a more notable population of Hispanics. I never regarded Ridgewood as dangerous or alarming. Growing up around City Line, Bushwick, Ozone Park and southside Williamsburg at the time and I wished I lived in Ridgewood. The Truth..