European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Korean grocer Jim wan Kim displays a selection of produce he Sells Sima store in my Down Manhattan. New americans bring Back old fashion by Stefan Fatsis associated press in new York people buy vegetables Iro koreans and newspapers irom indians pay rent to albanians and ride cabs driven by haitians to eclat chinese restaurants in Lille Italy Puoplo Picans twirl dough in Lallian Piz Orias and dominicans Wash dishes in greek diners. Outside office Lowers and jewelry stores on Madison Avenue senegalese merchants peddle everything irom umbrellas o handbags to Lake rolex watches. New York turns on its immigrant Economy those round inc clock Obs that provide Basic services to residents of All ethnic backgrounds and a new generation of now americans is reviving old trades and invigorating others immigrants Are having a major effect on the new York retail Economy the Streel  says Emanuel Tobier. A professor of economics and planning at new York us verily who studies immigrant life. They be kept the texture of Small business Here they be made the City More diverse than 11 otherwise would have  like their european immigrant forebears recent arrivals Are carving out a Niche in specific occupations opening family businesses bringing relatives to work in them providing financial help to new arrivals and Selling up networks of Job referrals they Aie the newsstand operators irom new Delhi and the greengrocers from Seoul immigrants from developing countries who Are dominating specific retail trades that Don t require much capital or spoken English just hours of toil often for Lille Money. There a net Woric. There s always a network says Elizabeth Bogen director of immigrant affairs at the City s planning department. How is it the dominicans and chinese wound up in the garment Industry How is it the koreans wound up in the fruit industry1 thai s the Sweet mystery " ai1 Pale worked in a meal Market in East Stroudsburg. A. A Delicatessen in Somerville n j. A Small Metal factory n South Amboy. N a. An Auto repair shop on33 d Streel in Manhattan and a stationery store on 7lh Avenue All run by Indian immigrants Belore a Friend suggested the newsstand business the main reason everyone comes to America is the  says Pale. 30. Who emigrated from Gujarat India m 1985 with $15 in his pocket and now manages a lobby shop in Rockefeller Center. I also came for that Loo enclaves of new non european immigrants also Are Havig an Impact on local economies in other parts of the country according to scholars and . Immigration officials. In Chicago Large numbers of mexican and Central american immigrants Are entering Mola working industries. In the Gulf of Mexico Olf Southeast Texas. Vietnamese Captain shrimp goals. In California. Koreans and chinese run farms and Small businesses in Miami cubans Are involved in All sectors of the Economy but the Dusl and often final Stop for Many immigrants still is new York though Loday it s John f. Kennedy Airport and not Ellis Island in the Range of immigrant groups new York is probably unparalleled says Tobier. Who Calls it a Noah s Ark of cities for  in 1986. The Umed Stales immigration and naturalization service registered b9.b10 new immigrants from 153 countries legally living in new York City. They ranged from 16,257 arrivals from the dominican Republic Loone each from Brunei Angola and Western Samoa tens of thousands of illegal aliens also came to the City swelling the ranks of immigrant neighbourhoods such As Washington Heights in upper Manhattan Jackson Heights in Queens and Crown Heights in Brooklyn Overall 2.3 million of new York s 7 million people were born outside the United Stales. The most prominent of new York s new immigrant entrepreneurs Are the koreans whose numbers grew in the Laic 1960s after the liberalization of us. Immigration Laws and surged in the 70s As the first arrivals summoned their families the Early korean immigrants were professionals doctors nurses pharmacists scholars artists and engineers highly educated people seeking better opportunities in the United states. At the end of the 60s the korean Community in new York numbered about 2.000, Wilh a handful of korean owned stores serving the needs of the ethnic Community. Now after 20 years we have in new York City 200.000 korean americans and 9.500 korean mom and pop a lords says Sung Soo k a director of the korean american Small business service Center of new York this is soil the land of Opportunity. Koreans Are opening stoics in Allol new York s Page 14 the stars and stripes mul Liloff business and residential neighbourhoods they have revived and updated two grades dominated by Lallian and jewish immigrants a generation ago Green groceries and Lish markets in some neighbourhoods three and four korean grocers por Block display Neal and colourful pyramids of polished apples pears and oranges on sidewalk stands. Open 16 to 24 hours a Day. The groceries have adapted to fit the times hot and cold salad bars Caler to new York s growing numbers of Young professionals. There Are 1.300 korean greengrocers in new York 65 percent of the City s total and the same number of fish markets where you can get fish scaled and Fried. Ten years ago korean families owned 30 groceries. There was vacuum says Hosea Lee who Heads the korean produce association Al the Hunt s Point Market in the Bronx where the grocer s Day starts at 4am. The first generation of jews and italians tried to give the business to the second generation but they did t want ii. The business was dying " koreans have made the greengrocers Trade something of an ethnic franchise. With stores and equipment passed on from one korean immigrant to the next near the Corner of 1st Avenue and 86lh Street on the trendy upper East Side a korean businessman recently bought an old German funeral Home and hired korean contractors to convert Tho Huili Jing into a spacious greengrocers one Block West Jin won Kim worries Aboul rising rent and Competition irom other korean grocery stores which have saturated the neighbourhood. Kim. A 50-year old irom Seoul the South korean capital came to the United states 10 years ago because Korea is poor America is a Rich country " to worked for korean friends in a Queens grocery saving $30.000 to open his Small Berliner Market with noun chem 1982 it s 19 and 20 hours a Day for me Kim says in English before turning Loans i a customer with a Lew words of Spanish Why there Are new stores bigger with Teller merchandise situated Good we stay open longer Koi cans work very hard he says Many people do not speak american just to make Money in other businesses 15 very Dill cull " across Lown. On 8lh Avenue near 52nd Street. 41 year old Suresh Patel from Bombay India manages a saturday 0