Precedent.. A brief history..Demographic Shift

Lefrak City (junction blvd)

Local reisdents speak about the changes in there community of Rego Park and Junction Blvd.

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Lefrak City

Lefrak City is a large urban housing project located in the Corona section of Queens in New York City. Built for working and lower-class families in the 1960’s, Lefrak City features twenty-eight eighteen-story apartment buildings. In addition to the residential buildings, the complex also features two large office buildings, playgrounds, school, and nearly 3,500 parking spaces. Today, nearly 14,000 people live within the LeFrak City complex.

Named after the original developer, Samuel LeFrak, ground was broken for the facility in 1960 and was finished in 1969. Under a �total living” strategy, the philosophy of the complex was to offer in addition to housing, shopping centers, recreation, transportation and other facilities. The original cost of rent was an affordable $40 per air-conditioned room. Demographics have come in waves. Directly following construction, a large jewish population moved into the complex. However, through the 1980’s, more and more African American as well as Muslim immigrants from the horn of Africa are calling LeFrak City home.

Lefrak City Area Population Statistics in 1990
Total Population Persons 60430
Nativity Native Born 29265 Foreign Born 31165
Major Racial and Ethnic Identifications White Non-Hispanic 22935 Black Non-Hispanic 12276 N American Native Non-Hispanic 115 Asian/Pacific Islander Non-Hispanic 9062 Other Race Non-Hispanic 264 Persons of Hispanic Origin 15778
Asian/Pacific Islander National Origins Chinese 4145 Asian Indian 3280 Korean 882 Filipino 480 Japanese 10 Vietnamese 96 Thai 75 All Other Asian/Pacific Islander 330	Hispanic National Origins Puerto Rican 3318 Colombian 3188 Dominican 3511 Ecuadorian 1611 Cuban 563 Peruvian 737 Mexican 450 Salvadoran 67 Guatemalan 119 Panamanian 147 Honduran 84 Nicaraguan 82 All Other Hispanic 1901
Language Data Persons 5 yrs & older 56711 Speak Only English at Home 21194 Speak Other Language at Home 35517	Languages Spoken at Home (Ages 5 and Up) Only English 21194 Spanish/Spanish Creole 14233 Chinese 3838 Italian 1091 Korean 751 Greek 601 Indic 2720 French/French Creole 1552 German 508 Tagalog 347 Polish 380 Russian 4210 South Slavic 128 Yiddish 572 Arabic 331 Portuguese/Portuguese Creole 122 Hungarian 552 Japanese 30 Vietnamese 38 Other Languages 3513

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