Andrew J. Nusca

Black is not all black in New York’s black enclaves

New York just isn’t New York anymore – at least not in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Long strongholds for the American black, these Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods have become fertile ground for immigrant families to take root and pursue the American dream. On each block, new faces are appearing outside to get the morning mail, and the faces of the original American-born blacks, it seems, are steadily disappearing. The catch? Those new faces are black, too.