• The New York City Department of Planning counts Guyanese immigrants in New York City among the city’s top four foreign born population. Just over one-half of the 150,000 foreign-born from Guyana lived in Queens, 36 percent in Brooklyn, and 11 percent in the Bronx. The southwest Queens neighborhoods of Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park), and Woodhaven-Ozone Park were home to Guyanese primarily of Asian Indian descent.
• Guyanese of African descent are to be found in Flatbush, East Flatbush and Crown Heights in Brooklyn.
• But the country has six main ethnic groups – including Caucasian, Chinese, Portuguese and Indigenous Amerindians as well as a melting pot of people with mixed ancestries.
• Many Guyanese have launched their own businesses in a striving community where they create employment for each other in real estate offices, mortgage companies, stores, restaurants and travel agencies. The median income is over $50,000.
• And most are homeowners, who work hard to send their children to top colleges – where they count among the rising Black and Asian presence on many college campuses today.
yea baby!!! the bronx may be only 11% but we are growing. Felicia you need to include Bharati Kemraj from BRONXNET Television in your program. She is a guyanese hot and on fire. this chick will get us places. GUYANESE RULES.check an article out about her.
By: Maria Gomez on April 22, 2008
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