European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                An Aerial View of Central Manhattan Trowt up the Urban concentration of the City. High rents threaten ethnic communities Manhattan s changing neighbourhoods new torn Lon Vennon a visit new York t Chinatown attracts visitor. By Frank Spotnitz United press International r Obert Parisi. Who owns he Moll Street bakery which his lather s lather opened 75years ago. Remembers playing in Little Italy Asa child surrounded by the smells of italia cooking and the language of his Homeland. Now Matisi 60. Has one of a handful of italian businesses that have survived the change of generations he can think of about 30 that have closed he Long ago moved his family from new York City to Mew Jersey where Good housing is still affordable. The whole neighbourhood is All  he said sadly. It s a Good Safe area one of the Best but where it was All italians at one Lime now it s a lot of chinese and Oriental people moving  Manhattan is still a swirling melting pot of Peoples Iron All Over the world but experts Bay Many of its onco vital Eldrac centers have Laded or Are being cd n Oil the  dizzying rents. Manhattan is becoming More homogeneous in its population As property values  said on Nuol Tosior. A professor at new York University s a radiate school of Public administration the French Quarter and the latin Quarter have not existed Lor decades while Little Italy has become Little More than a commercial zone with the apartments above its restaurants and shops occupied by asian americans Yorkville once a Center of German and Eastern european businesses has been overrun by Young professionals More interested in trendy restaurants and video stores than generations old bavarian Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday december 3, 985 inns arid newsstand ,. Change is an integral part of the history of new York which began three centuries ago As a dutch Colony Only to be claimed by the English who were quickly joined by French portugese. Swedish and finnish settlers. One reason the City s German French and italian districts have suffered in recent decades is tha. Immigration from Western Europe has dwindled to trickle. Without new immigrants those ethnic quarters naturally dissipate As second arid third generation ties Pendents Prosper and move elsewhere. There Are still healthy ethnic enclaves in Manhattan most notably predominantly Black Harlem the asians who continue to pour into Chinatown and the hispanic immigrants settling m Washington Heights and Spanish harem. But most of new York s immigrants during the was m it = we a a include in tons russians a West indians Are bypassing Manhattan Lor less expensive neighbourhoods in Queens Brooklyn and the Bronx those who can afford to live in Manhattan lend to have fewer ties to their ethnic roots and Are triggering a homogeneity that could Cost the Island much of its ethnic diversity according to experts. I Mumic i s still a Long Way away said Mitchell Moss another Nyu professor of Public administration but As Manhattan becomes Middle class and upper Middle income. I think will become less ethnic in the old sense. " 11,T" a Toio ca8ua"yis Yorkville located on the and emp5 rdc been a la Vins be nand Eastern european Community since the 1790s some German businesses survive but most Are . The Beer gardens have closed the Ruppert