Posted on 01/06/2010 7:50:22 AM PST by tlb
In greater Harlem...blacks are no longer a majority of the population — a shift that actually occurred a decade ago, but was largely overlooked.
By 2008, their share had declined to 4 in 10 residents. Since 2000, central Harlem’s population has grown more than in any other decade since the 1940s, to 126,000 from 109,000, but its black population — about 77,000 in central Harlem and about twice that in greater Harlem — is smaller than at any time since the 1920s.
In 2008, 22 percent of the white households in Harlem had moved to their present homes within the previous year. By comparison, only 7 percent of the black households had.
“It was a combination of location and affordability,”
Change has been even more pronounced in the narrow north-south corridor defined as central Harlem.
There, blacks account for 6 in 10 residents, but those born in the United States make up barely half of all residents. Since 2000, the proportion of whites living there has more than doubled, to more than one in 10 residents — the highest since the 1940s. The Hispanic population, which was concentrated in East Harlem, is now at an all-time high in central Harlem, up 27 percent since 2000.
Because so much of the community was devastated by demolition for urban renewal, arson and abandonment beginning in the 1960s, many newcomers have not so much dislodged existing residents as succeeded them. In the 1970s alone, the black population of central Harlem declined by more than 30 percent.
“This place was vacated,” “Gentrification is about displacement.”
Meanwhile, the influx of non-Hispanic whites has escalated. The 1990 census counted only 672 whites in central Harlem. By 2000, there were 2,200. The latest count, in 2008, recorded nearly 13,800.
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This guy, who never worked in the real world in his life, feels he "deserves" to live where he pleases. What a piece of sh!t.
Harlem is part of Manhattan. Just like Soho, Greenwich Village and Tribeca.
btt
Better do some more gerrymandering so Rangel can continue to get re-elected.
Speaking of shifting demographics, what SPECIAL programs are going to be implemented under Democrat Mayor Bloomberg, for the disadvantaged NYC minority, the Christian white male?
The older suburbs will be the new lower class areas which will work in our favor since our votes will be concentrated while theirs are spread out.
More State Run Media’s obsession with race. Why can’t they say more middle class Americans find Harlem to be a good housing deal and that the neighborhood is being revitalized by these newcomers. They almost sound sad that Harlem is no longer predominately black.
I’m sick of everything being reported by RACE!!!!!!!
Interesting. I do think the ageing baby boomers are looking to live in urban areas closer to services, but what about the huge public housing projects? In New York these projects house over 400,000 low income residents.
The land they're on is a gold mine.
Manhattan is 55% white. It voted 85-14 for Obama. Rangel has nothing to worry about.
"There is nothing permanent except change."-Heraclitus (not to be confused with Heraclitoris)
Speaking of shifting demographics, what SPECIAL programs are going to be implemented under Democrat Mayor Bloomberg, for the disadvantaged NYC minority, the Christian white male?
None.
Except for the part where I abhor city life.
Actually, they house over a million people according to NY housing bureaucrats I've spoken with. And their property footprint is frozen in place due to zoning.
“Sure hope you make friends easy.”
which Bond movie was that? From the looks of the guy’s sideburns, ‘Fro and car, must be Sean Connery in the ‘70’s.
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