Kingsbridge, Bronx: Difference between revisions

Kingsbridge has a population of over 10,000. Historical documents reveal that the Black population of Kingsbridge was proportionally much higher in the distant past than it is today, due to the number of Africans enslaved by local landowners from the late 1600s to mid 1800s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kingsbridgehistoricalsociety.org/black-kingsbridge-1698-to-1850-a-community-revealed-in-documents/|title=Black Kingsbridge 1698 to 1850 – A Community Revealed in Documents|date=2018-12-07|website=The Kingsbridge Historical Society|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> In more recent history, it became a neighborhood of predominately [[Irish-American|Irish immigrants]]. From the late 1970s the Irish population has decreased significantly, being replaced by large numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Albanians, and Greeks. According to an account by ''The New York Times'', the largest Hispanic group in Kingsbridge today are Dominicans, replacing the earlier Puerto Ricans and Cubans, who were the first Hispanics to settle in the neighborhood in the 1970s. There still is a strong Irish population centered on Bailey Avenue and Tibbett Avenue. The Dominicans predominantly live along Broadway and adjacent side streets, with a predominantly mixed ethnic area east and west of Broadway.<ref name=NYT />{{Unreliable source?|reason=Anecdotal source does not support statement, should use census data as primary source|date=June 2019}}