European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Brewery which used to fill the air with the smell of hops was levelled for a massive condominium Complex and tiie bavarian inn. Which had live German music and Beer on Lap. Made Way two years ago for a restaurant with Continental food. Not much of the German influence is left said Nancy Carr. Chairman of the Yorkville civic Council. You can just walk around and see All of the buildings going Down and All the new High Rise buildings going Carr said the neighbourhood is becoming like Columbus and Amsterdam avenues where scores of trendy restaurants and boutiques have earned the nickname upper West i think you re losing the ethnicity of the Little groups throughout the Carr said. It s happening in other places Loo. But in Yorkville it seems to be happening agreed Nyu s Moss the Long term Outlook for that place As a Cross Section of the German Community is probably very dim. It s the City while cognizant of such changes does not take them into account in . Land use is our primary concern and there s All kinds of it said Martha Ritter of the City planning department. You can t zone for German Ness. Land use is the essential characteristic that we zone the italian americans who still live in Little Italy hold out Hope that some Day when More and better housing is available the italians who moved out will return. The older people if there was some new housing they d All move Back Paris said. They All want to move Back but there s no new housing Anna Sceusa a 69-year-old Community organizer with the Little Italy restoration association is also saddened by the decline of the italian Community most of which has been overrun by rapidly growing Chinatown. Sceusa. Who was born and plans to die in the neighbourhood spends most of her time assisting elderly italian americans who Are nearly All that remain of the Little Italy she remembers As she grew up. The younger generations moved out of find a better Standard of living she said. The chinese work very hard you be got to give them credit Lor that Sceusa said. I would make every chinese an italian if i could. But inwardly i am Hurt and i feel this in t just. Ii we had had a better living for the italian people Here they would have Moil predicted the italian restaurants bakeries and delis that have survived in the area will remain because they Are commercially viable. Unlike largely residential Yorkville. The District s property values Havo been buffered some by its largely Industrial neighbors. While l Lille Italy has suffered Chinatown spurred by loosened asian immigration quotas in 1965, has grown from a four Block area to a massive asian american Community dwarfing even san Francisco s Chinatown. There were Only about 60.000 chinese americans in new York City before the quotas were changed and there now Are about Lour times that Many said Charles Lai administrative director of the Chinatown history project. Chinatown occupies most of the lower East Side once the dropping ground for jewish and italian immigrants and bustles with 11 local newspapers three closed circuit television stations and two radio stations not to mention Lood and merchandise imported from across Southeast Asia. But even Chinatown s rapid growth has not been Swift enough to accommodate All the asian immigrants coming to new York. Queens has about two Chin towns Lai noted including a Large enclave in Flushing. Enough russians have moved into Brooklyn s Coney Island Section to nickname the area Little Odessa while a Little India to rival the one in Manhattan has sprung up in Queens. Moss and Tobier acknowledge the trend is changing the personality of Manhattan but neither mourns the passing of such communities from Manhattan to the outer boroughs. I Don t know if we re losing anything although clearly there is a Changa Tobier said. Maybe we re gaining something. Those groups Are revitalizing outlying areas. It s giving new dynamism to outlying for Paris however the loss of a Way of life he always has known is not so easy to accept. Everyone is moving out they re chasing everybody out because the rents Are so High he Saia. If they keep on going the Way they re going now share la be no More Little Italy. It will be Little China. Miami cafe eaten to cuban. Titt. City s Blacks feel alienated the a urbanization of Miami by Dan Sewell associated press f foreign turmoil and South american drugs helped transform Miami and fuel uneconomic Boorn but the High crime an ethnic tensions that also came along Are clouding the City s future. Hispanics will soon be the majority there. A major task or cuban americ in who now dominate economics and politics is closing with a Black Community that often complains the a urbanization of Miami pushed them farther Down while pushing Many non hispanic Whites out. I think it is incumbent upon the cuban Community to go out of its Way and really stretch a hand out to the Black Community bringing them into the economic mainstream which is doing quite Well Xavier Suarez a 37-year-old lawyer recently elected As Miami s first cuban born mayor said in a lbs morning news interview. Suarez s Campaign pledged to slow Miami s $2 billion downtown development which has Given the City a spectacular new Skyline in the last decade and turn government attention to the deteriorating Black neighbourhoods where simmering frustration flashed into bloody racial violence in 1980 and 82. There is a great difference Between the majority of Blacks in our City and the majority of Whites Suarez said after taking office. The High unemployment is among the Blacks. The depressed neighbourhoods have mostly Black Quiroz Alto pledged to step up the fight against crime Rales Hal have been among the highest in the nation since 1980. He insisted though that Miami s crime problem largely stems from internecine wars Between drug dealers that rarely touch most Miami ans. Miami vice the locally filmed network television series has curiously boosted tourism and interest in Miami giving it an image of adventure and Glamour local officials have said. Syndicated columnist Bob Greene on a recent visit detected what he called a Miami vice it seems to me that Miami is a lot More vibrant he told tha Miami news. The stereotype in the 1970s was of a dying City old and sort of fading. Now it s very International. There s a tone to since Fidel Castro s 959 revolution in Cuba some 650,000 cubans have settled in the Miami metropolitan tuesday december 3, 1985 area thousands went into banking and import Export operations and the Rise of Spanish speaking and latin run businesses made the City a favorite place for South americans to shop and a safer place in which to invest than their own unstable economies. Miami s per capita income has risen by nearly 10 percent annually Over the last 25 years the most of any major . City. Maurice Ferre Defeated last month alter 12 years As mayor said the City s Gross National Pio Cluck if so measured would be 123.5 billion. Foreign deposits in Miami Banks total $12 billion he said. The latin dominance also facilitated the Rise of Miami As the no. 1 . Entry Point Loi South american cocaine arid marijuana and millions in drug Money moved through its Banks. Civil War and economic uncertainty in latin american countries have brought thousands More non cuban hispanics Mariy of them Well educated entrepreneurs to live in the City in recent years. By 1990. More than 50 percent of the 400,000 people living within cily limits will be hispanic demographers say. The White non hispanic population is expected to continue to shrink. Some 40,000 anglos have left in the last 10 years and those remaining account for less than 30 percent of the population. Most Blacks who comprise about 30 percent Aren t financially Able to relocate or would t want to follow anglos into the suburbs or other parts of Florida. However deep feelings that they have been neglected and that there is less place for them than Ever in the new Spanish speaking Miami have spurred what Suarez called alienation. Some neighbourhoods actually want to secede from the they Blacks have not taken the a urbanization very Well said Marvin Dunn a Black sociologist. There have been a lot of strains some of it jealousy. There Are charges of economic displacement and political in the area of Overtown unemployment among Black youths is said to be higher than 50 percent. Only 1 percent of the City s businesses Are Black owned. Their sales in 19b4 totalled $25 million one fifth the total of a cuban owned supermarket Chain called Sedano s. Traditionally the cubans have not done much for the Black Community and that has caused a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction said Mohammed Kamaludin managing editor of the Black oriented Miami times. Now it s in their cubans hands. There is a wait and see Altitude people want to give them the Benefit of the the stars and stripes Page 17
