For decades, Spanish-speaking residents have lived alongside a smaller orthodox Jewish community, and a slightly more middle-class white liberal community. Today, a majority of the neighborhoods’ residents identify as Latino or Hispanic, mostly of Dominican origin. With their blocks upon blocks of hundred-year-old sturdy, brick apartment buildings, decorated with zigzagging metal fire escapes, the two upper Manhattan neighborhoods have long been the home to working class and immigrant communities who have enjoyed affordable, quality lives for a century.īill De Blasio’s housing plan would allow for the construction of more market rate developments in Inwood. But those friends are living in tuna cans, in sardine cans,” he says, referring to how much smaller their New York dwellings are.īut bargains for outsiders aside, for many whose families settled in the two neighborhoods decades ago, the added attention to their homes is creating a great sense of insecurity. “They say, oh I will come and see you, but I will have to find my passport. They sometimes make fun of him for his choice in neighborhood. “The air is fresher up here.”įor now, very few of his longstanding New York friends live this far north. He loves the neighborhood and has already enjoyed the nightlife and restaurants. “I was looking to move uptown because I wanted space and I wanted it cheap,” Jackson said. Photograph: Devon Knight/The GuardianĬhristopher Jackson, a Broadway musical actor, moved to Washington Heights last month. For many whose families settled in the two neighborhoods decades ago, the added attention to their homes is creating a great sense of insecurity.
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