NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN by Michael MIller
The Polish and Slavic community is alive and well despite gentrification and the arrival of Starbucks.

HIGHBRIDGE, THE BRONX by Eric Markowitz
A Sunday church service provides religion, food and friendship to Ghanaians who come together with their countrymen and women in this place so far away from the mother country.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS by Zoë Potkin
In neighborhoods like Washington Heights, a new kind of assimiliation is taking place today among immigrant families: the roles of husband and wife are being rearranged.

LOWER EAST SIDE by Zakalia C. Gorham
Once an immigrant nabe, always an immigrant nabe, but these days, immigrants on the Lower East Side live next to–and are being squeezed out by—million dollar lofts and trendy stores.