by PolackTony » Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:26 pm
Ovation32 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:27 am
Country Club is currently an extremely insular Italian neighborhood (for example, homes are rarely listed by brokers but are sold to friends, family, connections, etc.).
This was the case historically, but *much less* so today. *Lots* of new people moving into the area, far less insular than it used to be. Some blocks are already 50%+ Hispanic and recently a lot of South Asians are moving in. Historically, it was majority Italian (mainly people who fled the decline of East Harlem, of course), but with a significant minority of Irish and Germans also, as with neighboring Throggs Neck. Few younger people with families are choosing to stay here (if you don’t put your kids in a dwindling number of Catholic schools, the public schools are… suboptimal). As the old people die off, the younger gen is either selling the houses on the market, or in the worst cases, chopping them into apartments. It’s first a trickle, and then a flood, and the trickle started a while back.
Country Club and (sections of) Throggs Neck have guys in that life still living here. You see guys around, but CC is an almost totally residential community, so you might see a guy washing his car in his driveway etc. Morris Park — though far less of an Italian community than it used to be, outside of the “Indian Village” subsection behind Jacobi — is one of the last places in the Bx apart from Arthur Ave that has businesses where guys will be hanging out and such.
Pelham Bay/Middletown and much of Throggs Neck are now majority Hispanic, though the former also has a significant Albanian community (though not at big as Pelham Parkway/Morris Park).
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Country Club is currently an extremely insular Italian neighborhood (for example, homes are rarely listed by brokers but are sold to friends, family, connections, etc.).
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This was the case historically, but *much less* so today. *Lots* of new people moving into the area, far less insular than it used to be. Some blocks are already 50%+ Hispanic and recently a lot of South Asians are moving in. Historically, it was majority Italian (mainly people who fled the decline of East Harlem, of course), but with a significant minority of Irish and Germans also, as with neighboring Throggs Neck. Few younger people with families are choosing to stay here (if you don’t put your kids in a dwindling number of Catholic schools, the public schools are… suboptimal). As the old people die off, the younger gen is either selling the houses on the market, or in the worst cases, chopping them into apartments. It’s first a trickle, and then a flood, and the trickle started a while back.
Country Club and (sections of) Throggs Neck have guys in that life still living here. You see guys around, but CC is an almost totally residential community, so you might see a guy washing his car in his driveway etc. Morris Park — though far less of an Italian community than it used to be, outside of the “Indian Village” subsection behind Jacobi — is one of the last places in the Bx apart from Arthur Ave that has businesses where guys will be hanging out and such.
Pelham Bay/Middletown and much of Throggs Neck are now majority Hispanic, though the former also has a significant Albanian community (though not at big as Pelham Parkway/Morris Park).