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Originally Posted by ilcapo
I was amazed looking at the numbers for the borough of Queens.
It basically has the same rate as an average European or Canadian city.
And with a very multicultural and mixed income population, its numbers are very good by US standards.
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NYC, overall, isn't that far off from European or Canadian cities.
And Queens, while very multicultural and mixed-income, doesn't really have any large-scale hoods. There are some rough projects in the Rockaways and South Jamaica, but that's about it. The black community in SE Queens has (or until recently had) a higher median income than the Queens white, Asian and Latino communities. The nonwhite population is mostly East Asian and South American.
The closest demographic analogue to Queens would probably be Toronto.