Monday, August 20, 2012


"WE HOP TO IT"



Sunset Park Estate Sale 8/25 & 8/26

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Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape

Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape We started to up the Sunset Park Estate Sale for this coming weekend, 8/25 & 8/26. We clea...

New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape


New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape

We started to up the Sunset Park Estate Sale for this coming weekend, 8/25 & 8/26. We cleaned, inventoried and displayed all items in our usual professional manner.
The nice gentleman who owned this 6 bedroom 2 family home decided it was time for a change and headed south. He left everything behind for estate liquidation. If you’ve looked at the pictures and videos you’ve seen the amazing contents of this well kept Norwegian home. Not to mention what we’ve pulled out of the basement and closets. We leave no stone unturned when setting up all of our estate and tag sales.




I was really surprised to see the landscape of the neighborhood had changed dramatically in the past few years. That’s the wonderful thing about this city we live in; our population is amazingly diverse yet we all live together in relative harmony. You can experience dozens of different cultures in one day just by walking neighborhood to neighborhood.

I did a little research and found some interesting things about this wonderful unique neighborhood past and present.
Sunset Park grew rapidly, largely as a result of Irish, Polish, Finnish and Norwegian immigrant families moving to the area in the 19th century. In the early 1980s, Sunset Park's population was made up of Norwegian Americans, who began leaving the neighborhood in the 1970s and early 1980s.

 

The 2nd Wave

 

Its rebirth came in the form of "Brooklyn's Little Latin America"

With a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, by 1990, Hispanics comprised 50% of Sunset Park's population. They were successful in rehabilitating property values and developing a thriving community.

 

The Current Wave


Brooklyn’s Chinatown/Emerging Fuzhou Town
Since the 1980s, Brooklyn Chinatown, located along 8th Avenue from 42nd to 68th Street, has attracted many Chinese immigrants. Eighth Avenue is lined with Chinese businesses, including grocery stores, restaurants, Buddhist temples, video stores, bakeries, and community organizations, and even Hong Kong Supermarket.