#68 Jewish New York – NYC Jewish Neighborhoods

#68 Jewish New York – NYC Jewish Neighborhoods

New York today has the second largest number of Jews in a metropolitan area, behind  Tel Aviv  in Israel.  Borough Park and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, (also known as Boro Park) is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. Flatbush, Brooklyn, Riverdale, Bronx, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Midwood, Brooklyn, Forest Hills, Queens, Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, Kew Gardens, Queens, Fresh Meadows, Queens and the Upper East Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan because of the proximity of the renowned Yeshiva U and Upper West Side, Manhattan, are also home to Jewish communities. Another neighborhood, the Lower East Side, though presently known as a mixing pot for people of many nationalities, including German, Puerto Rican, Italian, and Chinese, was primarily a Jewish neighborhood.

#1 WATCH: Jewish Neighborhoods of New York

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GOOD IAMGE TO USE
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1102803!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg 

#2 STUDY: Jews in Manhattan and Brooklyn

In a 2011 population study, it showed that there are 455,000 Jewish households in New York City representing 1,135,000 people. Brooklyn has 200,000 families and Manhattan has 135,000. Some of the major centers for Jewish families living in Brooklyn (Crown Heights, Boro Park, Williamsburg) and in Manhattan (Upper East Side and Upper West Side).

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#3 WATCH: Orthodox Jewish Neighborhoods of Brooklyn

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#4 STUDY: Jews in Brooklyn

Nearly one in four people that live in Brooklyn are Jewish. Of Brooklyn’s 2.4 million residents, 561,000 – or 23% – are Jewish; up from 18% in 2002.

Orthodox Brooklyn, meanwhile, is exploding. The Jewish population in the Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park grew 71% over the past decade. And in Queens, a neighborhood of Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union grew by 47%.

The community is still huge. Many of its individual neighborhoods have more Jews than some mid-sized American cities. “[T]here are as many Jewish households on Manhattan’s Upper West Side…as there are Jewish households in Cleveland,” said Pearl Beck, the report’s main author, in an emailed statement.

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#5 WATCH: Where Jews live in New York

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#6:  Study: 2011 Population Study

CB – can you grab the image #1-8 on Page 48 and put it here: http://d4ovttrzyow8g.cloudfront.net/196898.pdf

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# 7 Review and Response

1. What are two of the largest Jewish neighborhoods in New York?
2. What makes a neighborhood Jewish?
3. How many Jewish households lived in New York City in 2011? Is this a lot?
4. Where would you like to live in New York?
5. Is living in a Jewish neighborhood important to you?

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