Neighborhood Demographics

I moved into my neighborhood back in 1994. I was thirteen at the time and the first school I attended was Russell Sage Junior High School. I didn’t know much about the people in my neighborhood. However I observed as I explored my surroundings and from the people I meet in school that most of the neighborhood was Caucasian. I later learned that the neighborhood was predominantly Jewish.
Most of the kids that I first befriended were Asian and that was only because there weren’t that many of us and we all sat at the same table during lunch period. None of them lived on my block. The closest one who was a Japanese kid lived five blocks away and another who I believe was Thai lived seven blocks away the other direction. I have noticed though in the last five years there have been more Asians around my neighborhood and according to the US Census in 2000, 17.6% of Queens County was Asian and by 2006 it had risen to 21.2%.