From Jewish to Puerto Rican... to what? by Paul A

Category: East Side Community High School, NYC

Clinton Street is changing again! I guess what's new is that a new immigrant group isn't finding its way on this street which has "seemingly been an immigrant enclave ever since it was paved and drawn on a street map" (The Lonesome Casita, NY Times, Sunday, September 17, 2006). The article left me wondering what is lost and what is gained when a "once-derelict property" on Clinton Street "will be the site of an eight-story apartment building, with a day care center on the ground floor and a small theater company in the basement." Couldn't this development be done while also trying to preserve the integrity of the Puerto Rican culture there?