Showing posts with label Ethnic Neighborhoods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethnic Neighborhoods. Show all posts
Monday, February 20, 2012
Great website reviews and maps hundreds of Ohio Festivals
Beneath Ohio's image as a bland state is a huge amount of history, diversity and just plain weirdness. Festivals are a great way to discover all that.
A few examples--from the over 200 festival reviews on the site.
Cleveland Asian Festival
The Port Clinton Walleye Festival
Taste of Cincinnati
Tremont Greek Festival
Medina Ice Festival
Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival
Gene Autry Days – Kenton
Larchmere PorchFest – Cleveland
Toledo Lighthouse Festival
Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival
IngenuityFest – Cleveland
Ohio River Sternwheel Festival
Skunk Fest – North Ridgeville
Thursday, June 23, 2011
New York City Asian Population Tops A Million: Images From Flushing Queens
From The New York Times
"Not so long ago, the phrase “New York’s Chinatown” meant one thing: a district in Lower Manhattan near Canal Street. Now it could refer to as many as six heavily Chinese enclaves around the city
Koreatown was well known as a commercial zone in Midtown Manhattan, but now parts of Flushing, Queens, where tens of thousands of Koreans have moved, feel like suburban Seoul. The city has spawned neighborhoods with nicknames like Little Bangladesh, Little Pakistan, Little Manila and Little Tokyo.
Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city’s kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in April, their numbers have topped one million — nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers — which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined."
This area, Flushing, Queens is one the city's emerging ethnic downtowns dominated primarily by a huge Taiwanese/Chinese community and the largest Korean population in the city. Flushing, which is not far from Laguardia Airport, now has many offices and hotels.
As you can see from the images-this is a place of considerable wealth and dynamism.
Under Bloomberg, transit and bus hubs are being rezoned to encourage the development of alternate, business districts to encourage more two way commuting. Although this trend has been going on naturally for a long time.
If you never leave Manhattan, You really don't know New York.
"Not so long ago, the phrase “New York’s Chinatown” meant one thing: a district in Lower Manhattan near Canal Street. Now it could refer to as many as six heavily Chinese enclaves around the city
Koreatown was well known as a commercial zone in Midtown Manhattan, but now parts of Flushing, Queens, where tens of thousands of Koreans have moved, feel like suburban Seoul. The city has spawned neighborhoods with nicknames like Little Bangladesh, Little Pakistan, Little Manila and Little Tokyo.
Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city’s kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in April, their numbers have topped one million — nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers — which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined."
This area, Flushing, Queens is one the city's emerging ethnic downtowns dominated primarily by a huge Taiwanese/Chinese community and the largest Korean population in the city. Flushing, which is not far from Laguardia Airport, now has many offices and hotels.
As you can see from the images-this is a place of considerable wealth and dynamism.
Under Bloomberg, transit and bus hubs are being rezoned to encourage the development of alternate, business districts to encourage more two way commuting. Although this trend has been going on naturally for a long time.
If you never leave Manhattan, You really don't know New York.
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