Greenpoint

Abstract

Greenpoint is a large standing ethnic center of the Polish community in New York and has been experiencing rapid changes in ethnic group over the past few decades. Historically, Greenpoint has residents from many different groups who replaced the original Native American population. The Dutch arrived in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then German, Irish, and Italians. The Polish immigrants started to settle down in 1900s and were succeeded by Puerto Rican. Greenpint's most recent immigrants hail from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and gain, Poland and Eastern Europe. However Greenpoint is considered to be mostly Polish area, the neighborhood is in question because it has been transforming from working class, predominantly Polish ethnic neighborhood into a professionalized, hip and young poly-cultural area. This thesis examines various aspects shaping changes in Greenpoint and shows how those changes have influenced the neighborhood and its structure.

Greenpoint

 New York is a large area; with dedicated to different cultures and countries of immigration and the area Greenpoint is one of the largest borough of New York, with a diverse population. Traditionally, the place in United States of America named Greenpoint has basically strained its inhabitants from a sequence of several different ethnic groups who substituted the population of original Native American. In the period of late centuries of seventeenth and eighteenth the Dutch arrived. After the Dutch arrived in the middle of the period of 1800s, at the roll of the century the polish followed and in the period of 1940s and 1950s polish were thrived by Puerto Ricans. The most recent immigrants of Greenpoint are the Caribbean, Latin America, and again Asia, Eastern Europe and Poland. The specifically restaurants and ethnic shops all along Manhattan Avenue, the main commercial strip of Greenpoint provide the current immigrants and gave a nickname to that specific area. The nickname was “Little Poland”.

Little Poland looks like a small village center with its church, and along “Main Street” shops and restaurants. An atmosphere of American province's throws from Manhattan, quite exotic. Several different groups are found in Manhattan Avenue which is considered as the central of the neighborhood. Greenpoint is the well known cradle of brooklynese which is today proud of its assorted linguist immigrant population.

The chart of Greenpoint's population for the year 1980 and 1990 demonstrate the following pattern of population. Younger than 25 years women and men's population has excessively declined as a percent and also in total numbers. This is basically reflected in the substructure part of 1990 pyramid. Greenpoint's mature and grownup population who are between the ages of 25 to 44 years has conversely experienced a large increase in numbers. Generously men and women ages 25 to 34 and 35 to 44 increase at the center of 1990 pyramid. An immigrant community is reflected by the traditional pattern that established footholds and are joined later on by families. Considerably the young women and men who are between the ages of 45 to 54 have progressively grown and the groups ages 55 to ...