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Brooklyn Helps New York Top Los Angeles as U.S. Diversity Capital

According to recently released census figures, New York has wrested the title of ethnic-diversity capital of the U.S. from Los Angeles over the past decade. That change may be best illustrated in a single census tract in Brooklyn. The section of Dyker Heights in southwest Brooklyn, long dominated by Italian-Americans, had one of the biggest increases in diversity of any census tract in the nation’s most-populous city. The area of 1,133 people has seen an inflow of Asian residents, a group that is helping to transform the profile of New York, along with those of other major municipalities throughout the U.S.  What is happening in Dyker Heights and the rest of New York reflects a nationwide trend that the 2010 figures being released this year by the U.S. Census Bureau are underlining. A Brookings Institution study of the data found that more than 50 percent of U.S. cities are now composed of non-white majorities. New York is the most diverse of all cities with more than 500,000 residents, according to a separate analysis of census data by Bloomberg. In 2000, Los Angeles, the second-biggest city by population, ranked highest in the diversity gauge. Click here to read more.
 
 



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