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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Brooklyn, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | East New York is a primarily low to middle income neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. |
 | | Walter Thabit, a city planner for East New York, chronicled in his book, How East New York Became a Ghetto, the change in population from mostly working-class Italians and Jewish residents to impoverished residents, 86% of whom are of Puerto Rican and African-American descent. |
 | | Puerto Ricans were moving in masses to New York City in the late 1950s, at a time when umemployment rates in Puerto Rico soared to 25 percent, and unfair import-export rates favouring the United States left Puerto Rico on the brink of poverty. |
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