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In the early 20th century, many [[Italian American|Italians]] and Jewish migrants moved into the neighborhood, and prior to [[World War II]], the neighborhood was about equally Jewish and Italian.<ref name="nyt200608" /> In the 1940s an influx of immigrants from [[southern Italy]] moved in, leaving the area predominantly Italian.
 
Around 1989, an influx of immigrants from [[Chinese American|China]] and the former [[USSR]] began to arrive, mainly from Southern China, Russia, Ukraine, and ArmeniaUkraine. In the 2000s1990s, Bensonhurst rapidly grew in cultural diversity. Bensonhurst is home to many ethnic [[Polish American|Polish]], [[Ukrainian American|Ukrainian]], [[Russian American|Russian]], [[Albanian American|Albanian]], [[Greek American|Greek]], [[Georgian American|Georgian]], [[Armenian American|Armenian]], [[Uzbek American|Uzbek]], [[Arab American|Arab]], [[Egyptian American|Egyptian]], [[Lebanese American|Lebanese]], [[Pakistani American|Pakistani]], [[Mexican American|Mexican]], and [[Guatemalan American|Guatemalan]] Americans.<ref name=":1" /> In 1994, ''[[The New York Times]]'' cited the growing influx of Russian-speaking, Asian, and Hispanic populations in the area.<ref>Pierre-Pierre, Gary. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/17/nyregion/neighborhood-report-bensonhurst-when-signs-are-only-in-russian.html "Neighborhood Report: Bensonhurst; When Signs Are Only In Russian"],''[[The New York Times]]'', April 17, 1994. Accessed January 15, 2023. "For decades the tree-shaded streets of Bensonhurst were Italian-American enclaves, and mom-and-pop stores anchored the business hub along 86th Street. But waves of Asian, Hispanic and Russian immigrants have changed the mix, both residential and commercial, inevitably creating some friction.... About 20,000 Russians have moved into the area in the last few years."</ref>
 
In 2000, the New York City Department of City Planning determined that just over half of the residents were born in another country.<ref name="nyt200608" /> By 2013, then-Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]] announced that the city's foreign-born population had reached a record high, and that Bensonhurst had the city's second-highest number of foreign-born people with 77,700 foreign-born immigrants in the neighborhood, just after [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]].<ref>{{cite web |title=There Are More Foreign-Born New Yorkers Than There Are People In Chicago |website=The Huffington Post |date=December 19, 2013 |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-immigrants_n_4475197.html |access-date=August 21, 2015}}</ref>
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[[File:18 Avenue.jpg|thumb|right|18th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway]]
 
With a large Italian-American population, Bensonhurst is usually considered the main "[[Little Italy]]" of Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-02/news/-mn-1154_1_nice1154-neighborhoodstory.html |title=Racial Tension Haunts a 'Nice Neighborhood' |date=September 2, 1989 |first=David |last=Treadwell |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=May 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ramirez|first=Jeanine|date=July 17, 2014|url=http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/212422/brooklyn-week--italians-try-to-leave-mark-on-transforming-bensonhurst/|title=Brooklyn Week: Italians Try to Leave Mark on Transforming Bensonhurst|website=NY1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726115928/http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/212422/brooklyn-week--italians-try-to-leave-mark-on-transforming-bensonhurst/|archive-date=July 26, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=July 21, 2014}}</ref> The Italian-speaking community was over 20,000 strong in the [[2000 United States census|census of 2000]]. The Italian-speaking community, though, is becoming "increasingly elderly and isolated, with the small, tight-knit [[New York City ethnic enclaves|enclave in the city]] slowly disappearing as they give way to demographic changes."<ref>{{cite news |last=Santos |first=Fernanda |title=For Italians in Brooklyn, Voices on Streets Have Changed |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 6, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/nyregion/07italians.html |access-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref> Despite changing demographics over the recent years, Bensonhurst is home to one of the largest [[Italian language|Italian]] speaking communities outside of [[Italy]] and is home to the largest [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]] and [[Neapolitan language|Neapolitan]] speaking communities outside of [[Sicily]] and [[Naples]], respectively.
 
Its main thoroughfare, 18th Avenue (also known as Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard) between roughly 60th Street and Shore Parkway, is lined with predominantly small, Italian family-owned businesses—many of which have remained in the same family for several generations. 86th Street is another popular local thoroughfare, located under the elevated [[BMT West End Line]].<ref name=":0" />
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For the first time as of the 2020 census data from [[New York City Department of City Planning|NYC Dept. Of City Planning]], the Asian population(46,000 residents) in Bensonhurst now constitute a more than 50% majority in the neighborhood now surpassing the remaining White population (30,000 to 39,999 residents). Nearby adjacent neighborhoods of [[Gravesend, Brooklyn|Gravesend]] has 26,700 Asian residents and [[Dyker Heights, Brooklyn|Dyker Heights]] has between 20,000 and 29,999 Asian residents and Bath Beach has between 10,000 and 19,999 Asian residents. The Asian population in the Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst/Gravesend/Bath Beach area all together approximately made up around roughly 102,700 residents more or less and remain primarily Chinese speaking.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/21/us/asians-census-us.html|title=Inside the Diverse and Growing Asian Population in the U.S.|first1=Robert|last1=Gebeloff|first2=Denise|last2=Lu|first3=Miriam|last3=Jordan|newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 21, 2021}}</ref>
 
There is a small significant amount of [[Hoa people|Vietnamese Chinese]] residents integrated into the community, particularly west of [[Bay Parkway (Brooklyn)|Bay Parkway]] going towards Dyker Heights.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of New York City’s Vietnamese Americans |url=https://www.aafederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019vt.pdf {{Webarchive|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413013325/https://www.aafederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019vt.pdf |archive-date=April 2022-04-13, 2022 }} {{Bare URL PDF|datewebsite=March 2022www.aafederation.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Community Health Needs & Resource Assessment: An Exploratory Study of Vietnamese in NYC |url=https://med.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/asian-health2/chnra_vietnamese_0.pdf {{Webarchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216132818/https://med.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/asian-health2/chnra_vietnamese_0.pdf |archive-date=February 2022-02-16, 2022 }} {{Bare URL PDF|datewebsite=MarchNYU 2022Langone Health}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of New York City's Chinese Americans |url=https://www.aafederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019ch.pdf {{Webarchive|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313020523/https://www.aafederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019ch.pdf |archive-date=March 13, 2022 }}|access-date=July {{Bare29, URL2024 PDF|datewebsite=March 2022www.aafederation.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of New York City’s Chinese Americans |url=https://www1www.nycaafederation.govorg/assetswp-content/immigrantsuploads/downloads2020/pdf12/Fact-Sheet-NYCs-API-Immigrant-Population2019ch.pdf {{Webarchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2022030213443920220313020523/https://www1www.nycaafederation.govorg/assetswp-content/immigrantsuploads/downloads2020/pdf12/Fact-Sheet-NYCs-API-Immigrant-Population2019ch.pdf |archive-date=March 2, 2022-03-13 }} {{Bare URL PDF|datewebsite=March 2022www.aafederation.org}}</ref>
 
Chinese translation terms Bensonhurst as 本森社区.
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* [[Man Parrish]] (born 1958), music producer and artist
* [[Rhea Perlman]] (born 1948), actress<ref>Myers, Marc. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/poms-actress-rhea-perlman-on-her-wild-ride-from-coney-island-to-emmy-winner-11556635741 "''Poms'' Actress Rhea Perlman on Her Wild Ride From Coney Island to Emmy Winner; The Brooklyn native was shy growing up, but her humor surfaced on school stages"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915210334/https://www.wsj.com/articles/poms-actress-rhea-perlman-on-her-wild-ride-from-coney-island-to-emmy-winner-11556635741 |date=September 15, 2019 }}, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', April 30, 2019. Accessed September 21, 2019. "My grandparents also lived in Coney Island then. When I was 3, my parents moved to Bay Parkway in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst section."</ref>
* [[Leah Remini]] (born 1970), actress; co-starred in ''[[The King of Queens]]''<ref>Mcniff, Eamon; Bentley, John; Sancho, Miguel; Welsh, Susan; and Effron, Lauren. [https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/leah-remini-break-church-scientology-wanted/story?id=34854744 "Leah Remini on Her Break With the Church of Scientology: 'I Wanted to Be The One to Say It'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009225930/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/leah-remini-break-church-scientology-wanted/story?id=34854744 |date=October 9, 2019 }}, ''[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]'', October 30, 2015. Accessed September 21, 2019. "Leah Remini grew up in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, New York."</ref>
* [[Carl Sagan]] (1934–1996), astronomer, teacher and author<ref>Dicke, William. [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1109.html "Carl Sagan, an Astronomer Who Excelled at Popularizing Science, Is Dead at 62"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323161107/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1109.html |date=March 23, 2019 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 21, 1996. Accessed September 21, 2019. "Carl Sagan was born on Nov. 9, 1934, in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, where his father was a cutter in a clothing factory."</ref>
* [[Robert Sapolsky]] (born 1957), neuroendocrinologist, professor and author<ref>Brown, Patricia Leigh. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/19/garden/at-home-with-dr-robert-m-sapolsky-family-man-with-a-foot-in-the-veld.html "At Home With: Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky; Family Man With a Foot In the Veld"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812022821/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/19/garden/at-home-with-dr-robert-m-sapolsky-family-man-with-a-foot-in-the-veld.html |date=August 12, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 19, 2001. Accessed September 21, 2019. "Dr. Sapolsky, 43, grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a place he describes as 'a true tribal enclave.'"</ref>
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===Organized crime===
A number of high-profile organized crime figures hail from Bensonhurst, including [[Frankie Yale]], [[Anthony Casso]], [[Paul Castellano]], [[Michael DiLeonardo|Mikey DiLeonardo]], [[Anthony Gaggi]], [[Dominick Montiglio]], [[Carlo Gambino]], [[John Gambino]], [[Sammy Gravano|Sammy "The Bull" Gravano]], [[Gregory Scarpa]], and [[Carmine Sessa]].
 
==See also==
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