My mother is half Italian but she wasn’t raised by her father so I have been surrounded by my Puerto Rican family all of my life. I grew up in the Bronx as did my mother and I visit Puerto Rico at least once a year to see family there. I was raised around my great grandmother who spoke only Spanish so Spanish came naturally to me but as I haven’t been using my Spanish skills very much lately they are kind of rusty. :]
My mother is from Queens, NY, her grandparents immigrated from Naples and Palermo, Sicily in the early 1900’s. My father was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, and then later a farm village near Tel Aviv, Israel before immigrating to the United States. I was born on the lower east side, and raised in the east 70’s.
I was born and raised in Queens, NY. My parents are both from Colombia and I am the first person in my family to be born in the United States. I love eating ethnic food, especially new foods I have never eaten before.
I am an Italian American who was born in Augsburg, Germany, which is 30 kilometers south of Munich. I was 5 when I moved to America, when I settled with my mother in Brooklyn, New York. I remain very close to my Italian roots, as I am surrounded by the culture of the people every time I am with my family. My hopes for this class include learning more about the distinct and varied peoples that have populated New York City, and how my own ethnic background has been represented throughout the years.
My grandparents immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico on my father’s side and the Dominican Republic on my mother’s side. I am interested in studying computer science and hope to have a career as a computer programmer.
I am a doctoral student in Sociology at the Graduate Center. I am a photographer, ethnographer, and dog lover. I look forward to creating our mini-documentary” together. I live in Greenpoint.
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My name is Alexi Shalom. I’m a Syrian Jew. I’m from the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The Neighorhoods of Brooklyn
