[investigateworld]

Ethnic food is usually an immigrant profession in NYC. When a group has been in NYC for 75 or a hundred years they start to move away from the restaurant or bakery business, giving it up to more recent immigrants.

Somehow the phrase "leave the guns, take the couscous" don't cut it ;^)

[durasell]

Crime has almost always been an immigrant profession in NYC. Obviously, some of the second and third generation get "left behind" in the "old neighborhood," but they're generally viewed as throw backs.