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It’s largely a case of ethnic groups expanding. Census revealed the highest percentage of foreign-born New York City citizens on record.
In this photo, teenagers show off their Trans Am in Bensonhurst, which after World War II became an Italian-dominated neighborhood. Today, the number of Chinese immigrants-pushed out of Manhattan’s Chinatown by high rents-is booming.
-Johnna Rizzo
Bedford-StuyvesantPhotograph by Robert Madden,Picture Archive, National Geographic
“Celebrating togetherness, Madison Street between Tompkins and Throop gives its annual summer block party in Bedford-Stuyvesant, long a community of political and social activists,” reads the caption of a May 1983 National Geographic article,
“These owners and tenants band together to keep their brownstone block clean and crime free,” it continues.
Bay RidgePhotograph by Robert Madden, National Geographic
“A young would-be John Travolta and his friends star in a real-life version of the film Saturday Night Fever, made on location nearby,” reads the published caption in the 1983 National Geographic article, “while the officer, who has seen such youthful braggadocio come and go, casts a watchful eye.”
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