Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benjamin Viera, 37, a native New Yorker married to a Puerto Rican wife who speaks Spanish around the house, bilingual education used to mean trouble in communicating with his son, now going into eighth grade. Six years ago Viera switched the boy out of a bilingual program and into regular classes. "I'd talk to him in English at home, and he couldn't understand me," complains Viera. "He'd go and ask his mother what I said. His teacher was giving him Spanish all day and very little English...
...guide as to what kind of neighborhood a visitor has wandered into. Says Dem ocratic Ward Committeeman Jesus Garcia: "You can tell where you are from the sounds and the smell of the cooking. In Mexican areas people are doing the taco thing with beans and rice; in Puerto Rican areas it's roast pork and fried rice. If you walk around Pilsen (a Mexican enclave) you'll hear mariachi music; in (Puerto Rican) Humboldt Park you'll hear salsa and conga drums...
Mongrel New York, always a port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored...
...shouldn't they?" In the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, the city's most eclectic immigrant community of all, the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church reflects the extraordinary local mishmash. The church has a governing body that consists of a Cuban, a Thai, a Korean, two Filipinos, a Puerto Rican, a German and a few native-born Americans...
...York's landlords are now foreign born. Building prices doubled and tripled in one year in parts of Flushing. Tiny shops there now rent for $1,000 a month and up; so-so one-bedroom apartments 45 minutes from Manhattan go for $600. In Brooklyn's predominantly Puerto Rican Greenpoint section, the surge of Polish immigrants has, just since 1983, helped turn undistinguished $40,000 row houses into undistinguished $150,000 row houses...