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The African Americans in September. Recently arrived
Perhaps the best-known black Russian Jewish immigrants
inner-city community in the have turned Brighton Beach
Western world, Harlem is noted into “Little Odessa by the Sea,”
for the Harlem Renaissance and the Scandinavians and
(see pp30–31) as much as it is Lebanese have settled in
for great entertainment, gospel Bay Ridge and the Finns in
music, and soul food. The move Sunset Park. Borough Park
of black African Americans from and Williamsburg are home
the South to the North began to Orthodox Jews, and
with emancipation in the Midwood has an Israeli-Middle
1860s and increased markedly East accent. Italians live in
in the 1920s, when Harlem’s black the Bensonhurst area.
population rose from 83,000 Greenpoint is little Poland,
to 204,000. Today Harlem is and Atlantic Avenue is
undergoing revitalization in home to the largest Arab
many areas. The African- community in America.
American population has also The Irish were among the
dispersed throughout the city, A woman celebrating at the Greek earliest groups to cross the
with the largest community in Independence Day parade Harlem River into the Bronx.
Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant. Japanese executives favor
Orthodox Cathedral on East the more exclusive Riverdale
97th Street (see p195). area. One of the most
The Melting Pot
distinctive ethnic
Other New York cultures are areas is Astoria,
not distinctly defined but are The Outer Boroughs Queens, which has
still easily found. Ukrainians Brooklyn and Queens are the largest Greek
gather in the East Village, by far the most culturally population outside
around St. George’s Ukrainian diverse boroughs of the mother land.
Catholic Church on East 7th New York. In Brooklyn, Jackson Heights is
Street. Little Tokyo can be Caribbean newcomers home to a large
spotted by the ramen noodle from Jamaica and Haiti Latin American
bars along East 9th Street. are among the fastest- quarter, including
Koreans own many of the small growing immigrant hundreds of
grocery stores in Manhattan, groups. West thousands of
but most tend to live in the Indians tend to Colombians. Indians
Flushing area of Queens. The cluster along also favor this area and
religious diversity of New York Eastern Parkway between nearby Flushing, a lively
can be seen in the Islamic Grand Army Plaza and neighborhood also
Center on Riverside Drive; the Utica Avenue, the route of the populated by thousands of
Islamic Cultural Center on 96th lavish, exotically expats from China,
Street – Manhattan’s first major costumed West A member of the Orthodox Jewish Korea, and other
mosque; and the Russian Indian Day Parade community in Williamsburg Asian countries.

NEWCOMERS WHO MADE THEIR MARK see also pp50–51.
The dates mark the year 1932 George
these immigrants entered 1906 “Lucky” Luciano (Italy), Balanchine (Russia),
the US via New York. gangster (deported 1946) ballet choreographer
1921 Bela Lugosi
1893 Irving Berlin 1908 Bob Hope (Hungary), star of
(Russia), musician (England), comedian 1933 Albert Einstein
Dracula (Germany), scientist
1894 Al Jolson 1909 Lee Strasberg
(Lithuania), singer (Austria), theater director
1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940
1896
Samuel 1904 Hyman 1913 Rudolph
Goldwyn Rickover (Russia), Valentino (Italy), 1923 Isaac Asimov (Russia),
(Poland), developer of film star scientist and writer
movie nuclear
mogul submarine 1912 Claudette Colbert 1938 Von Trapp family
1902 Joe Hill (Sweden), (France), film star (Austria), singers
labor activist 1903 Frank Capra
(Italy), film director

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