First to give a geographical sense of this neighborhood, Ozone Park is located in the southeastern part of the borough of Queens, New York City. It lies northwest of the JFK international airport, with a population of 23,371 people as for 2007*. As the picture above indicates Ozone Park was first established on 1882 more than a century ago. The first ethnic group to settle in this neighborhood was, to my surprise, Italians. To even a greater surprise this particular neighborhood was a center of the Italian Mafia, with even the infamous John Gotti as a resident of this neighborhood.
In the past years, however, Ozone Park was been highly flooded by immigrations from South Asia (many Muslims), West Indies, including Trinidadians and Jamaicans, and Guyanese from South America. This is indeed the current condition, since my neighbors to the right are Trinidadians while to the left are Muslims from Bangladesh. However the cultural diversity still remains since there are many Italians living in my block. Race wise some statistics obtained from http://neighborhoods.rdesk.com/zip-code/Zip_Code_11416_Ozone_Park_ , indicate the following “36.25% of people are white, 8.40% are black, 15.95% are asian, , and 39.21% claim 'Other'.”
* also obtained from http://neighborhoods.rdesk.com/zip-code/Zip_Code_11416_Ozone_Park_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_Park,_Queens
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Ozone+Park,+Queens
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