I don’t know. I still visit my Aunt in Bensonhurst. There are new ethnicites showing up but they still start grocery stores, beauty salons and restaurants, sweep their stoops and have fabulous Christmas light displays. The Hassids are harder to assimilate but gradually the little kindnesses of shoveling someone’s walk, giving complements to children are making bridges. The Italians in many cases have assimilated so they don’t cluster as tightly but I have no trouble finding them.
My God, my friend. If you're familiar with Bensonhurst, then you should know full well what I'm talking about, in terms of Italians abandoning the city. The area is almost entirely Chinese and Middle Easterners now. Very few Italians currently exist in any of these once hugely Italian sections.