It was only until I moved to New York full-time that I realized that this integral part of New York City's history had all but disappeared. ... Apparently, this disappearance is for a multitude of reasons, all as complex as both the city's history and the dialect itself. ... By forming small communities within the city that echoed their neighborhoods from their home countries, these immigrants, especially the Italians and the Jews, were able to pass down their way of speaking through many generations. For example, when the first wave of Italian immigrants came to New York in the e...

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Throughout the history of immigration, New York city has become a city which contains most various ethnic groups and immigrants around the world. ... In the mid-1900's, the Flushing neighborhood was dominated by mostly white middle income such as Jewish, Irish, Italian, and German ancestry, nonwhites were not welcome in Flushing. ...

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