Bronx Week: Bronx Bangladeshi Community Grows as Other Boroughs Become Crowded – NY1

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Last week, NY1 reporter Erin Clark did a series of segments on The Bronx and its growing diversity for NY1’s Bronx Week. Here Clark focuses on the ever growing Bangladeshi community.

“The Bronx is known for its large population of Hispanics, Italians, and even Irish—but Bangladeshi? The borough is fast becoming home to a growing number of people from the South Asian country. NY1’s Erin Clarke filed the second report of our Bronx Week series.

Twenty years ago, the Bronx neighborhood of Parkchester wasn’t exactly ideal living for immigrants coming from Bangladesh.”

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