Empowering Global Citizens

Maps that show how New York’s racial makeup has changed since
2000 (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/ZO10/12/14/nyregion/
census—graphic—nyhtml)

“Mapping America: Every City, Every Block,” a map showing the
ethnic distribution of neighborhoods (data is based on 2005—2009)
(http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp?hp)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods__of__New_York_City

The following list of data about demographics is from this article from
the New York Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/ 11/ 14/

immigration—in—new—y0rk—city—takingathe—long—view/ .

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Sixty percent of New York City residents are immigrants or children
of immigrants. The following is a list of some of their communities
and those communities’ locations:

The Chinese and Koreans in Flushing

The Dominicans in Washington Heights and the West Bronx
The Guyanese in Richmond Hill

The Carib in East Flatbush

The South Asians in Jackson Heights

The growing Chinese population in Bensonhurst

g. The polyglot mix of Arabs, Brazilians, and Bangladeshis in Astoria
New York was a heterogeneous city from its founding; seventeen lan—
guages could be heard in the streets of New Amsterdam in the 16405.
By 1855, New York had become “the most Irish city in America”
and was a hub of nationalist politics and even of the Gaelic revival.
Irish women were maids and household servants to the wealthy and
provided the backbone of the teaching force. The Irish challenged
the Protestant—dominated social elite with a rival network of social
and political institutions centered on the Roman Catholic Church.
Immigration of Italians peaked in the late nineteenth century and
the early twentieth century. Early Italian migration consisted mostly
of males, and some one—third of Italians returned to Italy. Italians