Talk:Demographics of New York City

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I expanded the red link from the New York City article, also to resolve the minor dispute over the proper location of information about the Jewish community. My knowledge of this subject is minimal and I hope others will expand and contribute in their areas of expertise. Kaisershatner 18:13, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Anyone want to expand the list of ethnicities/nationalities present? For starters, there's nothing on the history of Latinos, Caribbean people, African-Americans, Arabs, South Asians ... etc etc etc. The list seems stacked towards the "older" immigrant groups. Rocketfairy

[edit] Sephardic Jews

There are quite a lot of Sephardic Jews in New York. A simple Google search finds over 50 Sephardic synagogues. --Amir E. Aharoni 07:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

that doesnt mean much, lets say every synagogue serves 100 people that is just 5000 people out of a million Ashkenazim. i dont think there are a lot of sephardic jews there, dont be confused with the term "oriental jews" or arabian jews it is not the same as it is in modern Israel, from which most arabian jews came from.--Ifeldman84 08:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

That means quite a lot actually - there are 50 synagogues who call themselves Sephardic. To follow your logic, there are even more Synagogues that are Mizrachi, Yemenite etc.

Sephardi can mean "Spanish", but it can also mean all Jews who are not Ashkenazim. (Shas call themselves "Sfaradim", but claim to represent Bucharim, Kavakazim, Gruzinim, Teymanim, Iraqim etc.)

Of course common sense says that the majority of Jews there are probably Ashkenazi, but there definitely is a significant number of Sephardi, Mizrachim and Yemenites too. New York Jews are not just Chabad, OU and Seinfeld.

If you have numbers which you can prove, you can add them to the article, instead of arguing about the meaning of "most". --Amir E. Aharoni 09:17, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

shas means NOTHING! what connection does the iranian or the bucharian jew to the "Sfaradim"?

maybe their dark skin or the arabian looks.

yet most of them in israel call themselfes that way (that is by not being a mizrachi that is "eastern" (asian or african) in their common logic)

as i said 50 synagogues its about 5000 people. but there is no point for this conversation because no one has any details --Ifeldman84 19:14, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

There really is no point in this conversation without any numbers, but since you mentioned it: Shas means a lot - it is a strong party and their usage of the word has significant influence whether you like it or not. They may be illiterate (some of their publications are badly spell-checked) but they are in the Knesset and you and me are not ... --Amir E. Aharoni 19:27, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Percentages of Ethnicity

The table and the paragraph in this contradict each other. The table says NYC is 45% white, while the paragraph says it is 35% white. Which one is correct? Crito2161 03:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] White

The article mentions the white population of the city, but doesn't go into details. The 3 main groups are Jewish, Irish, and Italian. I don't know percentages, but it would be good to list them. Anglo-Saxons amount to only about 2 percent. - Matthew238 07:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)