East New
York
is a neighborhood in the
eastern section of Brooklyn. The area is inhabited by many
immigrant families and mainly by African-Americans and
Puerto Ricans. Formarly East New York was a working-class
Italian and Jewish neighborhood, but during the 1950s the
area became poorer, as many impoverished Puerto Ricans moved
to East New York, and finally the area turned into a ghetto,
with high crime and unemployment. Even today many people
refer to the area as a ghetto and a high crime area,
although some improvement has been made in recent years and
some people speak about a rebirth of the neighborhood. But
unlike former ghettos such as Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New
York remains a commuter town without many new businesses
moving in. As efforts had been made to clean up the South
Bronx, there's still a lot to be done in East New York.
I didn't really visit
the neighborhood, I just went through there, when I took the
bus from Ozone Park, Queens to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
that's why there are no pictures.
As far as I can evaluate, this section of Brookyln looks dirtier and more run-down in
comparison to most other neighborhoods that I've seen in New
York. Concerning crime I cannot make any judgement, but from
what I've read, it seems that crime rates are higher than in
other neighborhoods, so I would not recommend someone, who's
never been to New York before, to visit there on his own.
