[lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew?

[Joseph Catron]

Where are you getting your statistics?  I have none of my own on hand,
but I do live a few blocks north of Bay Ridge, and while I'm familiar
with its growing Arab minority, the countless hours I've spent there
have given me the impression of an overwhelmingly white neighborhood
(and a middle-class one at that; parts of it feel much more like
Garden City than Sunset Park).

Astoria has always struck me as pretty white as well, although I've
spent much less time there, and none to speak of in Woodside.

On 8/17/07, Paul <paul_ at igc.org> wrote:


> Anecdotally think of any white working class
> neighborhood from the end of the 80's -- even last ditch holdouts like Bay
> Ridge (Saturday Night Fever), Astoria&Glendale (Archie Bunker) or Woodside
> (Irish pubs) have only a dwindling minority of whites today.