In Woodhaven 89-24 92nd street, not far away form the J train station. There is a quite and nice neighborhood; 1 or 2 family houses all around. Those houses face to face and side by side look nice and neat as books in bookshelf at the library. But somehow, the sidewalk is useless, the reputation is bad, the class mobility is low. There are sidewalks but nothing, there are many cars parking on it but people. It’s said, walking alone in this neighborhood is dangerous, and so people want to keep their doors lock. But one day, people would like to open their doors and have a party on the sidewalk, and after that, they become to usual, “lock the doors”.
Since 1950s, there are many whites living in this neighborhood, but when there is one immigrant, it changes a lot. Whites have been moving out of this neighborhood. This has a negative affect for the price and the rent of houses. And because of that, there are more and more immigrants moving in. Today, there are many different races living here in Woodhaven.
Immigration has a huge negative affect for this neighborhood, whatever in economic, social, education or living in this neighborhood.
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