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Monday, August 20, 2012
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.
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