Comments on: New York’s Gifts to the World: Gift #4 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2006/11/29/new-yorks-gifts-to-the-world-gift-4/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:58:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Benkay http://nyc.metblogs.com/2006/11/29/new-yorks-gifts-to-the-world-gift-4/comment-page-1/#comment-3371 Benkay Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:42:00 +0000 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2006/11/29/new-yorks-gifts-to-the-world-gift-4/#comment-3371 You probably know much more about it than I do. You probably know much more about it than I do.

]]> By: Lisa Hunter http://nyc.metblogs.com/2006/11/29/new-yorks-gifts-to-the-world-gift-4/comment-page-1/#comment-3370 Lisa Hunter Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:38:30 +0000 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2006/11/29/new-yorks-gifts-to-the-world-gift-4/#comment-3370 Nice post, but I'm not sure that the boroughs are segregated by race so much as language. Astoria is Greek, Brighton Beach is Russian, and so on, because that's where new immigrants tend to go (and where long-timers stay) for the whiff of the old country -- cuisine, foreign language newspapers, people to talk to in their native tongue, etc. When I moved to Montreal, I resisted the temptation to live in one of the English enclaves. But it IS nice to go there sometimes to buy English magazines, or to go to the grocery store and know what the word for canteloupe is. Nice post, but I’m not sure that the boroughs are segregated by race so much as language. Astoria is Greek, Brighton Beach is Russian, and so on, because that’s where new immigrants tend to go (and where long-timers stay) for the whiff of the old country — cuisine, foreign language newspapers, people to talk to in their native tongue, etc.

When I moved to Montreal, I resisted the temptation to live in one of the English enclaves. But it IS nice to go there sometimes to buy English magazines, or to go to the grocery store and know what the word for canteloupe is.

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