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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, and Ukraine. In the 1990s, Bensonhurst rapidly grew in cultural diversity.
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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