The Asian Diaspora Reaches Downtown Brooklyn
Neighborhoods with large Asian populations—Sunset Park, say, or Flushing, Queens—are seeing a demographic shift. Kids from those neighborhoods are moving away, as children are wont to do, but they’re not moving far, according to the New York Times. Developers and brokers say the next generation of young New York-born Asian-Americans is heading to downtown Brooklyn…
Neighborhoods with large Asian populations—Sunset Park, say, or Flushing, Queens—are seeing a demographic shift. Kids from those neighborhoods are moving away, as children are wont to do, but they’re not moving far, according to the New York Times. Developers and brokers say the next generation of young New York-born Asian-Americans is heading to downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City, rapidly hip-ifying areas with many a high-end condo project to be found. Asian-Americans make up 15 to 50 percent of some of those sales; at the Toren (above), half of those who have signed contracts are Asian-American. These neighborhoods are not expected to turn into mini-Chinatowns, though—those headed for high-rise land are more likely to assimilate, says The Times. And, hopefully, enough members of the elder generation will stick around Sunset Park to keep Brooklyn Chinatown Booming.
Just wondering- that may be but I’ve never used it that way and never heard it used quite that way. I speak in vernacular and if you check that Crown Heights thread post you’ll see I’ve been beaten unmercifully about the head and shoulders for it 🙂
Other than that I honestly don’t see where anyone tried to say Asians are superior to anyone else. The reaction initially was to a post describing them as “uppity”- a put down if ever there was one.
New Construction: pool, roof decks, library, garage, gym.
Its hard to pick over those great amenities, right?
It should be an exciting time for Downtown Brooklyn. The area is changing for the better.
Lets welcome the DIVERSITY!!!
bxgrl,
second to none
better than anything or anyone else. The hotel’s restaurant is second to none.
See also: none, second
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003
“asian yuppies”
So after stereotyping them as yuppies you wrote the following sentence with a straight face:
“weird how you all went to all this stereotyping.”
i read that article and what i first thought about was that it’s interesting that the young asian yuppies are choosing new construction over pre-war. considering that they are such a growing and financially powerful segment of the NYC population, seems like this is good news to condo developers.
weird how you all went to all this stereotyping.
I never said that I didn’t think that Asians were not hardworkers or family-oriented or didn’t have high incomes. I questioned the need to place them in rank order and I thne simply stated that there were other groups with the same attributes.
BTW, I am a ‘her’ not a ‘him’ and reading my post on Crown Heights lead you to believe what? I consider myself to be American. All of my life people have annoyed me by asking me “what are you?” because they can’t figure it out and therfore can’t box me into any of those categories.
Ignorances on this board is boundless. Koreans historically & culturally ate dogs, not cats. They ate from their cultural belief that eating dog meats somehow strengthens and speeds physical recovery from sickness and surgeries. Secondly, consumption of dogs have been banished by the gov’t but then there’s always the underworld markets to serve up.
Don’t people usually say “second to none” in the sense of being equal, not necessarily superior? That’s always been my interpretation. There was a time in this country when Asians were completely looked down upon. That’s well documented. I think the point east river was making was based on that history.
In any case mentioning the good things about one culture or another doesn’t mean they’re perfect or without issues. why can’t we say Asians in this country are a very successful, hard working, family oriented group (it’s true), without then feeling obligated to mention their problems? No one is implying they are better than anyone else, and it shouldn’t be taken that way. But at least give credit where credit is due.
But I agree, newbie, compared to what’s happening in Iraq and other countries around the world, anything being discussed here is pretty frivolous. Maybe not to us individually, but in the overall scheme of things whether you’ve got granite countertops or painted over the tenant’s horrible color scheme to get a higher price is vastly unimportant.
“we have a lot of asians here”
From your “possessory” language I’m assuming the worst. Must be difficult living in the 21st century with that mindset.