NYC's richest neighborhoods and where the races reside
In this story map, we will be exploring how wealth has played a big role in the evolution of New York City's racial division.
Before WWII was over, New York City's population was made up of more than 90% of Non-Hispanic Whites. This percentage later changed around the 1920s and after the Second World War when a larger number of non-whites started settling. In about a century, New York's demographics more than doubled and changed substantially as the Black population increased by about 35 times, the Asian population by about 150 in the same period, and the Hispanic population by almost 20 times between 1940 and 2010. The only population to have decreased over the same period of time is the Non-Hispanic White population which decreased by around 60%.
Historically, each of NYC's five boroughs has had different settlements. Queens is the most popular destination for Asian migrants whereas Bronx and Brooklyn are where the majority of the Black population is settled and the Bronx is home to most Hispanics.
Neighborhoods with largest race clusters and their income
If we take a look at the map above, we are presented with two key data points. The first one is the squares filled in with a different shade ranging from dark green (median income over 96 500$) to light green (in between 96 500$ and 62 800$), light purple (in between 62 800$ and 29 200$), and dark purple (under 29 200$). The second data point is the circles placed on top of these squares with each color representing the most dominant race in that square. Right off the bat, we can see a clear polarization between the affluent neighborhoods ruled by the Non-Hispanic white population, such as most of Manhattan, and mediocre or impoverished areas like part of the north of Queens, composed of the Asian population, or east of Brooklyn, by the Black or African American population.
Manhattan Chinatown is one of the nine Chinatowns in New York City, which contains the largest ethnic Asian population outside of Asia, with around 573,388 individuals in 2014.
In the slides below we've used the Black community as an example for the displacement of Racial communities over the years.
New York City is a cluster of wealthy and powerful people. "According to a new report from data firm Wealth-X, it is home to nearly 1 million wealthy people, more than any other city in the world." "Wealthy" in this case is defined as someone with a net worth between 1 million and 30 million dollars.
Luxury Shops in New York City
767 5th Ave, New York, NY 10153 Apple Store "New York’s Upper 5th Avenue came second on the 30th annual list of most expensive retail streets in the world, published by real estate company Cushman & Wakefield."
The top 3 richest neighborhoods in New York City are:
3) Turtle Bay/East Midtown with an average household income of $220,079
2) Soho/Tribeca with an average household income of $258,531
1) Upper East Side/Carnegie Hill with an average household income of $322,432
As we can see in the map above, the location of various luxurious shops is centered around those three neighborhoods. With this map as well as the first one (indicating the income by square and race) we get a taste of how unequal income distribution is by race. Unfortunately, over the last decades, the northwestern part of Brooklyn was subject, and still is, to an overly rapid gentrification process which is once again putting the black community in danger of another displacement as it is increasingly becoming the white majority. If we take a look at both maps, we can see a spread in luxury shops reaching neighborhoods such as Williamsburg or Park Slope, and the Non-Hispanic white population becoming the dominant race with a high income. This is history repeating itself as the same happened in Harlem in the 1990s.
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