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.
Please, please tell me they are not still eating our beloved cats and dogs! Savages.
You all forgot to insult the Koreans. How could you?!
And as for Asians, you need to remember the South Asians too.
No one was referring to the young professionals moving into downtown Brooklyn. However restaurant owners and managers are business professionals and many of the younger professionals in investment and finance come from families who ran their businesses well enough to be able to afford to send them to great schools. As a group Asians are some of the hardest working, most family-oriented people around and their history and culture is second to none.
I really question your use of the word “uppity” but a quick reading of some of your other posts shows you to be rather focused on race and a little paranoid about it to boot.
wouldn’t it be great if people just stopped worrying about what you looked like and cared more about what you can accomplish?
I don’t think the Asians class mentioned in the NYT article will be doing food deliveries in your nabes any time soon. They’re your more “uppity” Asians professionals and probably more of internationalists in terms of investment and money.
speaking for myself I’d love any and all of them in my neighborhood.
Be careful what you wish for. Willaimsburg has a thousand Thai restaurants. What about Burmese or Indonesian or Cambodian? not a hint.
DIBS- I’ll get the name for you (please don’t tell me you speak fluent Thai in addition to everything else you do well!)
thanks MM- I can see jm is going to do this all the time and he can have his fun. It only makes him look bad. I suggest you, dave and I go out for Thai food some night! (you too 11217!)
drove past it the other day- I’m not a huge fan of modern, but what I saw of the skin really looks beautiful. It should be really spectacular when it’s done.
Jingle mail, I find your use of the term “dawn of time” in reference to Asians at the Toren, to be wrong and misleading, according to your own comments to bxgrl on Friday in the Crown Heights post.
“You sound like a revisionist and i believe in being historically accurate.” if I may quote you.
I’m sure you find the whole thing funny now, but what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If it’s funny enough to mock here, you shouldn’t have wasted so much cyber time ragging on her use of a silly, exaggerated phrase. It certainly detracted from what was an interesting and informative discussion. Congratulations.