Bensonhurst, a middle class Italian enclave for generations, is booming with Chinese immigrants. A similar transformation occurred in Manhattan’s Little Italy decades earlier. Bensonhurst is now ...
The tides of New York City’s ever-shifting demographics have changed particularly rapidly in Brooklyn’s residential enclave of Bensonhurst. Once known as Kings County’s Little Italy for its large ...
“I’d rather have someone stab me in the heart,” a Bensonhurst patriarch bellows when he learns his daughter has fallen for a black man in Spike Lee’s 1991 Jungle Fever. In the late ’80s and early ’90s ...