You can really see the shift from pre-1965 (mostly European) to post-1965 (Caribbean, Latin American, some Asian) immigration in the 1980 census.
Foreign-born, New York SCSA (1980)
Total 2,752,119
Europe 1,258,582
Americas 927,215
Asia 338,726
Italy 316,767
Dominican Republic 144,289
Germany 140,833
Poland 127,884
Cuba 121,922
USSR 119,473
Jamaica 113,924
UK 89,530
Ireland 73,252
China 72,754
Colombia 67,761
Greece 63,098
Haiti 60,160
Ecuador 52,620
India 44,782
Trinidad and Tobago 43,902
Canada 41,851
Austria 41,664
Philippines 41,180
Portugal 40,052
Hungary 38,576
Guyana 36,577
Yugoslavia 33,413
Korea 30,396
Arrived after 1950
Europe 672,928
Americas 866,551
Asia 316,257
Europeans, arrived after 1950
Italy 174,326
Germany 62,122
USSR 54,844
Poland 53,705
Greece 52,072
UK 51,584
Portugal 37,391
Ireland 30,061
Yugoslavia 29,077
Hungary 21,425
Last edited by Docere; Apr 5, 2023 at 10:42 PM.
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